Crop Rotation, Ecology and Processing

Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices. New organic crop and whole-rotation budgeting tools to help new and aspiring organic farmers assess and manage the economic risks of organic transition.

Food

Food Seeding Crop Poultry

Farmer Roundtable Highlights Urgent Need to Bolster IRA Funding for Sustainable Farming

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.

Farming

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture

Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. Seafood processing houses, they just cut the filet off and throw the carcass in the bin.

Food

Food Farming Farming Supply Chain

2024 Year in Review: Key Wins, Challenges, and What’s Next for Sustainable Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agriculture Appropriations We engaged throughout the annual appropriations funding process for critical existing food, agriculture, and nutrition programs. NSAC staff and farmers stand in front of the Capitol building before the SEEC briefing.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Food Farming

Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Source: “Review and Synopsis of Natural and Human Controls on Fluvial Channel Processes in the Arid West,” by John J. Indigenous agriculture relies on an approach to land that is grounded in time-tested, abiding ecological principles rather than technical innovation. “We Farming in the Arid West Illustration by Nhatt Nichols.

Farming

Farming Farming Crop Acre

Understanding pH Part One:

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. Acid rain falling downwind of industrial processes acidifies soils much quicker, as was observed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries.

Fertilizer

Fertilizer Distribution Processing Pasture

Can Cover Cropping Heal Abused Soil? A Mad Farm Reflection

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. Other Resources Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations. Reference Kim, N.,

Crop

Crop Farming Farming Crop Rotation

Stewarding Success: Conservation Stewardship Program

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.

Acre

Acre Farming Farming Agriculture

Understanding pH Part Three: Salt of the Earth: Addressing Alkalinity

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. This wriggling, or weathering, of nutrients is a never-ending process that resupplies soil with usable nutrients. Old headstones are testament to this process.

Processing

Processing Ranching Crop Rotation Mechanics

Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management.

Farming

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture

Envisioning a Greener Future with Nikita Shumeiko

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.

Construction

Construction Vertical Farming Crop Rotation Technology

More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This refers to the natural processes by which all living things eventually die, decay and under normal circumstances return to the earth to be recycled. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

Ploughing

Ploughing Crop Yield Farming

‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

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. Farmers must undergo an expensive (and sometimes bureaucratic) certification process. Yet, there are concerns about organic certification.

Processing

Processing Production Food Crop Rotation

Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. cattle industry.

Food

Food Farming Farming Agriculture

These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

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.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food

Agriculture Informer

Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

Farmer Roundtable Highlights Urgent Need to Bolster IRA Funding for Sustainable Farming

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

2024 Year in Review: Key Wins, Challenges, and What’s Next for Sustainable Agriculture

Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Understanding pH Part One:

Can Cover Cropping Heal Abused Soil? A Mad Farm Reflection

Stewarding Success: Conservation Stewardship Program

Understanding pH Part Three: Salt of the Earth: Addressing Alkalinity

Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

Envisioning a Greener Future with Nikita Shumeiko

More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

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