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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

Given how few farms are using it, there are still many questions about limitations—like the absence of cell service in some rural areas, farmer acceptance , accuracy, and ongoing costs —but buzz about virtual fencing’s applications continues to grow. He also had to construct pathways to move the goats back to the barn for milking. “He

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Waste and Water Woes

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms.

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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Civil Eats

“Everything that is part of the standard was tried and tested, from breeds to how long you feed them, to the right kind of welfare aspect to consider in the coop construction.” ” But the grand vision doesn’t end there. Photo courtesy of Wil Crombe/Organic Compound.) The Regenerative Ag Alliance processing team.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. In short, much of the current system is more susceptible to climate impacts because of current monocultural agricultural practices.

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Fighting the Corporate CAFO ‘Takeover’ of Rural America

Civil Eats

The proposed CAFO would hold 2,400 pigs and produce as much manure equivalent as a town of nearly 7,000 people. The battle inspired Trom Eayrs to become a rural activist and help other communities fight what she calls a CAFO “takeover” of the Midwest. But people [who live] in these small rural communities feel this tension.

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Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run

Agritecture Blog

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. Our goal is to understand the impact of construction — how will blueberries react to being driven over?”

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Alone on the Range

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities /.slide-intro By Chris Collins , February 13, 2020 Here are the rural residents who sued the world’s largest hog producer over waste and odors – and won.

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