National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Some of these spaces included the OEFFA Conference organized by NSAC member Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association , the National Urban Agriculture Conference, and the Farm Aid Festival. We hosted a virtual briefing for lawmakers and the press to share key takeaways from the report.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As an example, Cover Crop is a basic Conservation Practice that NRCS compensates producers for in multiple conservation programs. As an example, NRCS considers the use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter an enhancement on the basic Cover Crop practice.

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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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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist In my past two blogs, I reflected on planting cover crops on small plots and gardens. And since cover cropping is scalable to just about any size farm or garden, it made sense to conduct some field experiments of my own. Diversity of food crops and flowering annuals. Give it time.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. Johnson laughs.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 2017, CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been conducting an on-farm demonstration project in collaboration with California no-till farmers to better understand small-scale biointensive no-till farming’s effect on soil health. Their webinar grabbed the attention of hundreds of agricultural enthusiasts, invoking in-depth discussion.

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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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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Certain farming practices and crop varieties can help farms adapt to the erratic, intensified weather patterns and disasters shaking the foundation of U.S. Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I agriculture.

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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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 27, 2023

If incorporated into the 2023 Farm Bill, this bill will expand insurance access to producers historically left out of the federal crop insurance program. Strong bipartisan interest exists to expand voluntary access to crop insurance to include these underserved producers. “The This Act is the moving vehicle to do that.”

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

It's not just about mixing up crops and hoping for the best; instead, it's about creating an ecosystem where plants thrive together. By planting multiple crops together in one space, you can create a self-sustaining ecosystem that supports your plants while also maintaining healthy soil and reducing pests.

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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

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management.

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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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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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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Regenerative agriculture can cover a vast array of approaches and systems but it is based around five principles: don’t disturb the soil; keep the soil surface covered; keep living roots in the soil; grow a diverse range of crops; and bring grazing animals back to the land. “If

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

From this dishonorable top 10 list, at least eight could be considered industrial, with practices targeted toward large-scale, animal or commodity crop operations. 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.’

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” He took a broad look at mycorrhizae within the plant kingdom.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. 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). 25 and 60% of the UK’s total current livestock emissions).

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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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