UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Farmers are some of the best-placed people to help protect the ecosystem services found in healthy ecologies,” said Jared Phillips of Branch Mountain Farm who spoke on the panel alongside his wife Lindi Phillips. Other practices include no- or reduced-till farming, cover crops, and crop rotation.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Introducing fallow periods into a cropping rotation also speeds up water table rise in these environments. Its much more complex than that.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. For this, we need the courage and imagination to live within our limits, just like ecology has been trying to teach us. Other Resources Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations. Reference Kim, N., Riggins, M. By Andy Clark.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits. In 2014, she and Rafkin started transitioning to organic. They were a rough crew of sheep!”

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I They’ve forged relationships with Gulf Coast shrimpers and Indigenous tribes in the Amazon to support traditional, ecological food systems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 27, 2023

The WFRP Improvement Act includes provisions to address common barriers and to otherwise strengthen the program by streamlining paperwork, expanding the Micro Farm pilot, raising the limit to annual revenue expansion, strengthening the diversification discount, and compensating crop insurance agents who sell WFRP appropriately. “

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It does this by providing farmers with financial and technical assistance to actively manage, maintain, and expand conservation activities – like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management, buffer strips, and the transition to organic farming – even while they work their lands for production.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hydroponic and crop rotation systems first caught Nikita’s attention when he was in graduate school, and as part of his masters thesis, he began looking at how these innovations could be integrated into interior design and architectural projects. Shumeiko’s chandelier is a great example of biophilic design in practice.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture differs from monoculture, which involves growing one crop at a time over an entire field. While both permaculture and polyculture farming prioritize sustainability and ecological balance, permaculture takes a broader systems-thinking approach, while polyculture farming focuses on planting strategies within a specific area.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Improvements in soil health, more thoughtful crop rotations and learning from traditional ecological knowledge can also go a long way in conserving the U.S.’ As climate change intensifies, droughts lengthen and aquifers deplete, there will likely be more demand for irrigation infrastructure. water resources.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” A claim repeated in various ways, is that a teaspoonful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2 Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). For example, modelling studies suggest the adoption of silvopasture (integration of trees and livestock) on 10% of the UK’s grassland area could sequester 5.477 to 13.39

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Some firms are already buying a broader range of crops from farmers to incentivize these changes, says Bande at Quantis. Bain & Company recently estimated that average annual farm emissions in Canada could be cut in half or more through crop rotations, use of cover crops, reduced tillage and better nutrient management. “We

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Jimmy Woodrow at Pasture for Life highlighted the need to better account for the ecological role of livestock in regenerative food systems, a contribution that isnt always captured in spreadsheets, while Julia Kirby-Smith of Better Food Traders brought in the perspectives of consumers and retailers, emphasising the systems reliance on cheap food.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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