Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

But the climate crisis is altering the ecological conditions that define food flavor, threatening familiar tastes and culinary traditions. Ecological factors such as temperature, soil, rainfall, sun, and pests shape the chemical compounds in food, explains Our Changing Menu. Animal products like cheese are also climate sensitive.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. However, planting a greater variety of crops often leads to the following advantages.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the importance of diversity in ecological research. ” The Role of Crop, Livestock, and Farmed Aquatic Intraspecific Diversity in Maintaining Ecosystem Services. Towards an agroecological approach to crop health: reducing pest incidence through synergies between plant diversity and soil microbial ecology.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Water Adaptation In the desert, getting water to crops often requires irrigation. billion in payments from the agency’s crop insurance program).

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Caff

AUGUST 1, 2023

Do you want to learn more about the ins and outs of planting and managing cover crops from growers with cover crop experience? Check out our Cover Crops in Orchards case study! CAFF_Cover Cropping In Orchards Case Study The post Cover Cropping in Orchards case study appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This analysis found that AFRI has historically funded low levels of organic research, while the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) has been erratic in supporting organic research projects. This initiative trains future plant breeders and develops new crop varieties specifically suited for organic systems.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. However, planting a greater variety of crops often leads to the following advantages.

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Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

As a participant in the BIOS program run by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Russ collaborated with fellow orchard farmers to share best practices for ecological farming, furthering his commitment to environmental stewardship.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What kind of crops are we going to grow?” This means rethinking attitudes toward growth, while recognizing water as a fundamental human right and a source of broader ecological health. What kind of crops are we going to grow? Some farmers can get three or four or five crops a year of alfalfa. It’s easy to grow.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 25, 2024

Same for crop wild relatives in the Eastern Fertile Crescent? Scientists get together to conserve global wild rice germplasm resources, understand the ecology of wild rice environments, identify and address threats, define effective ways to use wild species in rice improvement, and provide data for decision-making.

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Caff

AUGUST 16, 2024

Emma Centeno and Johnny Wilson at The Ecology Center. In this episode we travel to Southern California to meet with Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm in Santa Ana and Johnny Wilson from The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano to talk all about Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, in urban farms. Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 5, 2024

The key to protecting soybeans and other crops from stinkbugs is to understand the ecology and migration patterns of the insect.

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Caff

APRIL 5, 2024

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link]. Position will involve frequent trips to the Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys and the Central Coast.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 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. Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. in some spots.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S. In fact, there’s already an entire mouse farming industry dedicated to feeding pet snakes.)

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Natural capital and ecosystem services constitute farms’ ecological wealth. Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 6, 2025

. – Michael Phillips, The Apple Grower Understanding the Connection Between Soil Fungi and Orchard Health By Chuck Schembre, Understanding Ag, LLC All orchard crops fruit trees, nut crops, grapes and berries are perennial plants which have developed a strong symbiotic relationship with fungal life, both in the soil and the plant canopy.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.

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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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USDA Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Samuel Discua is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Arizona Yuma in the Department of Entomology, where he studies the ecology and management of insect pests associated with leafy greens and melons in Arizona cropping systems. Yuma and the rest of the state lead national lettuce crop production.

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Caff

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Currently, our programming is focused on four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Much more than just a crop, corn has been a fundamental part of Mexican life since time immemorial, with the Mayan sacred text the Popol Vuh relating that the creator gods Tepeu and Gucumatz formed the first human beings from maíz , as corn is known in Spanish. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2021

Currently our programming is focused in 4 areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We are working to build farmer-to-farmer networks in California to provide farmers and ranchers with the resources to successfully implement ecological farming. See [link] for more information.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Specialty crop export and global food trade are still only a minor part of the worlds food story.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Periodic mowing keeps it under control and adds a green manure mulch to the crops.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic curry farming promotes ecological balance by emphasizing soil fertility and water conservation. Farmers use natural methods such as crop rotation, composting,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Curry Farming

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Fossil fuels make it possible to grow crops in vast monocultures using pesticides instead of biodiversity to deter insects and employing energy-intensive synthetic fertilizers that actually deplete natural soil health and fertility. The CAFO system, with its dependence on vast amounts of feed crops, has many knock-off climate effects.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Reducing the use of harmful and synthetic inputs and fostering farmer-led seed systems offer good entry points for countries to introduce ecological and agroecological practices, proposed Fegert. Agroecology offers a powerful pathway towards achieving biodiversity, climate, and food security goals simultaneously. But money is available.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 31, 2025

There are differences in the way cattle are grazed and produced, just as there are differences in the way crops are produced. Those differences have significant impacts, either good or bad.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To others, they represent an inefficient use of land and would be much better put under forestry or bioenergy crops to help the nation meet its net zero targets. Grazing livestock can even have a positive influence in native woodlands, reflecting the important role that grazing by large herbivores plays in the ecology of many wooded habitats.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Its foundation relies on resource-intensive commodity crop production, which needs the majority of fertile lands to feed animals kept in confined spaces. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States. But a closer look at our food system reveals many challenges.

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Agric4profits

JUNE 26, 2024

Mango petals, though often overlooked, play a significant role in both ecological balance and economic activities. The petals of the mango tree (Mangifera indic

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 11, 2023

Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies. Diamonds in the Not-So-Rough: Wild Relative Diversity Hidden in Crop Genomes. No word on how many crop wild relatives are threatened, but there’s a cool online mapping tool that could I suppose be used to mash things up. Ok, maybe 8. Even more than all the CWRs we did.

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. They are “actually enabling the more locally specific and traditional crops to be grown and consumed,” she tells Food Tank. “In

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