Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 130

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Even though organic farming makes up less than one percent of US farmland , it’s still a multi-billion-dollar industry. For a food to become certified organic, the farmland must be proven to have not received any pesticides or unapproved substances for at least three years. Adopting approved organic practices is only part of it.

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Yield Pesticide Farming Farming 122

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

As farmers seek to lease land for solar arrays to diversify their incomes, the practice could help them maximize their income and fend off opposition from critics concerned that solar development will take prime farmland out of production. Moser plans to work with other crops, too. Soybeans are one example.

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Farming Farming Forage Acre 98

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 98

Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The deployment of the Waltons’ vast fortune across millions of farmland acres, ocean ecosystems, and food production spaces could boost the regenerative image that Walmart presents as a company while obscuring the fact that the majority of the food on its shelves is still produced as cheaply as possible.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The practice was finally banned in the UK in 1993 after years of campaigning by environmental organisations, such as Friends of the Earth , but has been permitted again by Defra on blocks of up to ten hectares (25 acres), as part of attempts to control the persistent weeds that plague many of the farms which have continuous arable crop rotations.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Farms are consolidating as small producers struggle with rising costs, changing weather conditions, and other challenges. Her husband is a sixth-generation descendant of Nicodemus original settlers.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140