Agwired

MARCH 14, 2024

FloraPulse , the first easy-to-install water sensor that provides accurate and low-cost water-sensing technology, is enhancing the lives of farmers and researchers who want real-time data that will enable them to make the quick, accurate decisions that will benefit their crops.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Making the Move After several years in the biochar business, he concluded that the only way to make money is to maximize carbon credits and take advantage of all possible revenue streams, which means using biochar in water systems, construction, and power generation in addition to ag uses.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The first holly to invade Stokes’ study area sprouted in 1966, during a residential construction boom north of the park, where ornamental holly still grows today. Plant a holly orchard and let nature do the work for you,” read one brochure. Once an allegation is made, your crop is guilty.” But it could get even worse.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. Some of the first year’s crop was lost to cold weather, so today the plants begin in a greenhouse long before being replanted outside. Ramon Torres My father was a construction worker and my mom cleaned houses.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

By the time the Nüümü returned to their valley, the settlers had turned it into a constellation of cattle ranches and orchards. In an op-ed published by the Inyo Independent in 1870, the authors state that “many of the principle irrigating ditches now in use by the whites were originally constructed by the aborigines.” “To

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Investors usually amass agricultural parcels for planting large-scale, high-value commodity crops, or develop them for residential and urban uses. Nathanial Brown owns Brown Sugar Farms in Citrus Heights, where he grows unusual crops such as Caribbean red, striped, and fish peppers, stinging nettles, and flowers.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. I think there’s a reluctance to do things differently from your neighbors,” Taber said.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Practical Farmers of Iowa said Friday the group is hopeful USDA will pay farmers for planting cover crops and other conservation work they’ve completed. The contract he mentions was signed in May, and he has until December 2027 to complete construction on his project. million this year.

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