National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo credit: Matt Ryan/Sandra Wayman Editor’s Note: This blog post is a guest post authored by Gordon Merrick, Senior Policy and Programs Manager at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and Mark Schonbeck, Research Associate, also at OFRF, which is an NSAC member.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Comment Re: Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks (Docket No. USDA-2024-0003) Dear Director Hohenstein, NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. territories.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Farmers Weekly The link between inorganic fertiliser use in farming and greenhouse gas emissions is being highlighted in a new campaign by the Soil Association, designed to change government policy and influence consumer buying choices.

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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. The current fertilizer industry, subsidized at US$20 billion, causes 25 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, and intensive practices continue to promote their injudicious use.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is the final story in “The Healing Soil: Detroit’s Urban Farms,” a three-part series being co-published with Outlier Media and Planet Detroit , and is supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. This is commonly regarded as the first introduction of plastic into agriculture, a move that would transform modern farming—and inadvertently deposit an untold amount of plastic in the soil. In 1948, E.M.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“We could drastically reduce some of the land that we’re using for things like oil crops, if we were making these in a factory and not using land at all,” says Steven Davis, PhD, Earth System scientist and lead author on the paper. The amount of land used globally to grow oil crops has increased dramatically in the last several decades.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly Seed technology firm Nuseed is hoping successful UK trials of new Brassica carinata varieties over the next two years will offer growers a new combinable crop opportunity to help boost farm income and contribute to sustainability targets.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This is particularly valuable in crops that demand precise nutrient balance, such as fruits, vegetables, and high-value greenhouse crops. Traditional tissue analysis provides a fuller picture of both mobile and immobile nutrients, making it indispensable for balanced crop nutrition.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

On a drizzly November day, Masra Clamoungou, the farm manager for Small Axe Farm, was getting ready for winter. Small Axe is part of a patchwork of farms east of Seattle, between the pine-filled Cascade foothills and the maple-lined banks of the Sammamish River.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Krishna Bista grew up on a diversified farm in her native Bhutan, where her family cultivated sweet potatoes, ginger, corn, wheat, millet, citrus and cardamom. Krishna Bista grew up on a diversified farm in her native Bhutan. The farm is a community of immigrants, mostly from Africa and Asia. “The

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

In other words, farmers lucky enough to produce a high-value product—especially when it’s intrinsically tied to the soil it’s grown in—may be uniquely positioned to help experiment, develop, and de-risk regenerative practices across all kinds of farms. “If If we take this as a holistic system.

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Grow Link

JUNE 23, 2023

AI and IoT in greenhouse operations improves efficiency, boosts crop yields, reduces waste, and revolutionizes farming. Embrace AI as a tool, not a threat.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A major research project at the University of Toronto will investigate how urban agriculture could both improve food access and capture and store carbon dioxide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Written by: Sarah Jordan and Christian Kanlian March 24, 2023 When starting a farm, research is key to ensuring you make the right decisions upfront to avoid headaches later. There are many choices to be made, but one of the most important is which type of farm to start.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. New Jersey’s farms, just to the north, have not yet seen this degree of impact, and the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than gifting a tangible object this year—and wrapping it, shipping it, hoping it’s something someone wants to store in their home indefinitely—opt to adopt from a farm. By adopting a piece of a farm, you can offer someone a way to connect with the land and our food system in a unique and meaningful way. Grape vines.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. The state later discovered, however, that the sludge contained harmful PFAS.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Measuring a farm’s carbon footprint is not as simple as saying, “Cover crops were used, so that grain’s sustainably grown.” Different agricultural practices emit or sequester different amounts of carbon, so multiple farming practices must be considered when determining a farm’s environmental impact.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. The CAFO system, with its dependence on vast amounts of feed crops, has many knock-off climate effects. Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A British company created an irrigation system that relied on salt water, and a Dutch farmer experimented with degrees of salinity on his row crops in 2014. But one company is coming at the issue from a different angle: the crops themselves. Tomatoes grown with salt water at Red Sea Farms. Photography courtesy of Red Sea Farms.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Siewicki started Vital Mission Farm with the hopes of helping to create a more sustainable food industry. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first. A second mortgage and $80k in debt Siewicki found there was a lot of information out there about how to farm. But how do new farms get the first initial sale?

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

There's no doubt that modern technology has given us the tools to make our farming operations more efficient and productive. However, it can be hard to choose which practices to implement on your farm. Luckily, we’ve done the research and broken down the top tips for increasing efficiency and productivity on your farm.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The farmer, Brett Aiello of Reconnecting Roots Farm, wants to suppress the weeds around some newly planted fruit trees without disturbing the soil, and hes enlisted some help. Let’s prove that this works.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms. The NRCS will invest $1.4

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. Farming turned out to be really healing,” says Karen, allowing her husband to decompress outdoors through physically demanding but rewarding challenges. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. Fortunately, the couple had invested in a 2.5-acre It’s a huge talent pool.”

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The program is funded in combination by the Washington State Department of Agriculture and Washington State Department of Commerce and focuses on supporting sustainable agricultural practices and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Growers interested in participating in the program can reach out to MyLand at sales@myland.ag.

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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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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Meet the trailblazing women who are revolutionizing technology for small farms, one ingenious solution at a time. Three women are paving the way forward and helping to define what appropriate technology innovation means for the small farm. Rachel is a winner in the Do It Yourself (DIY) category of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge.

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