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.

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AGRIVI

JUNE 21, 2023

Monitoring and Validating Practices AGRIVI FMS enables companies to monitor and track various aspects of their agricultural operations like machinery and fuel usage , mineral fertilizers usage , pesticides and crop protection usage, and irrigation and water usage. A 21% decrease in pesticide usage.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

The entire industrial agri-business-based system needs fertilizers and pesticides to function,” Tostado says. CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans. Food production “doesn’t even start at the farm, it starts at the fossils.

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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. Farmers must undergo an expensive (and sometimes bureaucratic) certification process. However, organic certification is not cheap.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Rosmann’s 700-acre organic operation is an anomaly in the region.

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Agriculture for Life

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Additionally, EEFs are known for improving crop productivity as well as enhancing plant health. Sustainable Agriculture Practices Need EEFs EEFs are ideal for sustainable agriculture practices such as crop rotations, no-till farming, and management of water resources.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Importantly, many farmers also argue that profitability can be significantly increased due to lowered reliance on expensive chemical inputs, thanks to techniques such as crop rotation, holistic grazing, and cover cropping that can add nutrients back to the soil.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. Knowing that we are doing this together raises the question of how can we support each other through this process? How do we share our stories with each other?

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. Knowing that we are doing this together raises the question of how can we support each other through this process? How do we share our stories with each other?

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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.

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Farmbrite

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable, it's more challenging to plan crop rotations, planting, irrigation, and other tasks that depend heavily on the weather. This data can guide your decision-making process and help you adapt to changing conditions effectively.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Each member typically has an equal say in the decision-making process, regardless of the size of their operation. When farmers pool their resources, they can invest in local infrastructure, such as processing facilities, distribution networks, equipment, and storage units. One issue is member engagement and participation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. The problem is that its notoriously hard to define. Hundreds of people from across the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

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