OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Such impacts can become more pronounced with climate change, as more than 60% of forests, croplands and pastures are expected to be exposed to more frequent and severe droughts globally by the end of the century. Droughts also exacerbate other climate-related risks, such as wildfires.

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Construction Pasture Ecology Finance 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation announced construction was beginning on a 45,000-square-foot, $31 million facility called the Market Center of the Ozarks. It’s one among hundreds of other philanthropic and investment initiatives by the Waltons in the region, including restaurants, trail networks, and parks.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Lightstar, which uses a model where landowners receive lease payments, has agrivoltaics projects under construction throughout the country; in California, the company is waiting for the state to release its new community solar program, which will offer better solar energy rates for residents with low and moderate incomes.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When they purchased the farm over 30 years ago it was an unproductive almond orchard and since then they have pulled the almonds out and utilized the sloped landscape to construct swales, establish a vineyard, and plant a wide variety of fruit trees which provide shelter while their flock of ducks grazes.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Most gates, corrals and fencing are constructed out of wood. Soil health principles are real, adaptive stewardship can drive the ecosystem processes, but it is up to management to dictate the species composition of our pastures for regeneration to take place. How much is left over in the end as profit?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Yet intense competition for land in the state has widened the gap in farm ownership, she adds.

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