Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Fighting climate change Greenhouse gas emissions, which result from high levels of atmospheric carbon, are a critical cause of climate change. Anne-Laure White, Carbon Sponge field tech, surveying the sorghum crop at Stoneberry Farm in Athens, NY, in 2023.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Despite their efforts, Marchant’s River Berry Farm quickly lost upward of 10 acres of crops, with lettuce and summer squash suddenly swimming in the flooded fields. In response, Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Program, or FCIP, in 1938. As part of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980, the U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. Crop farming volume, such as soy, corn, and alfalfa, will fall by more than 50 percent. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. Yet with California’s agricultural hub dominated by large-scale farms and commodity crops, he’s found a comfortable niche at his local farmers market.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

While the current administration may blame woke DEI environmentalists for the blazes, science shows that the climate crisis contributed to the severity of the damage. The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.

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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. It all comes down to management,” he says.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Farmers, for example, are experimenting with the wild seed relatives of domestic crops that may be able to withstand extreme weather. These stores offer shoppers an alternative.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

All registrants to Groundswell should watch the webinar so that attendees may be working with information that is current and accurate based on the science available to us now. corn product and has increased the price of corn by about 30% and other crops by about 20% annually (Lark and Stevens agreed with this.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. Rice growing in one of the Lundberg Family Farms test greenhouses. Rice is a critical global crop, responsible for about 20 percent of the calories people consume. Photography by author. An Arkansas rice field.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

percent of total greenhouse gas emissions between 2021 and 2022—the sharpest drop of all sectors in 2022. For example, many more are planting cover crops, with acreage increasing by 17 percent between 2017 and 2022. This is likely especially true for farmers growing corn, the most widely planted crop in the U.S.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. A review of the research projects awarded through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) and AFRI from 2009-2023 shows that the allocation for organic research does not meet the ongoing need.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 5, 2024

Certainly, the change in availability is in part due to ease of imports and prevalence of greenhouses today. If there’s a fire or drought, crops can die off and yields go down. You can also look to incorporate more legumes into your diet, or ask your representative to make nutrition science a priority.

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

He explains that they reduce the time it takes to compost, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and they require very little water for breeding. Insects can help decrease the number of inputs typically expected in food production, Tonga says. Ultimately, insects have the potential to be used as meat substitutes or dietary supplements.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

We often hear about vertical farms using water sustainably, 95% less than traditional open field harvesting, to provide superior tasting crops. The key here is the freshness of the crops. This time saved in travel is also nutritional value preserved in the crops.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. Smith’s team has been visiting farms and testing soil, plants, and milk to understand how PFAS move from the ground into forage crops, including grasses and corn.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. As part of its efforts to foster a new crop of farmers, earlier this y ear, the USDA announced it would be investing $262.5 It’s truly full circle.”

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

While many farmers have been improving water efficiency with drip irrigation, water savings have translated into larger areas of thirsty crops. Source: Water, environment, and socioeconomic justice in California: A multi-benefit cropland repurposing framework , Science of the Total Environment.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Yesterday, the agency took a big step toward refining its definition of that term by announcing a major initiative intended to improve the data it uses to guide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and make farms more resilient to climate change. We have to have accurate, reliable measurements of the impact.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We can start treating trees about two months out of the greenhouse and jump on those trees early,” says Gerrard. “By In the meantime, there are close to 2,000 ARS researchers across the country looking at crop diseases. “I That’s where the Trecise application comes in, says Dave Gerrard, head of commercial business for the company.

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Agwired

MARCH 6, 2024

With their crop consulting and plant breeding backgrounds, Brad and Joyce Doyle are continuing a family conservation legacy by using innovative solutions on their Arkansas farm. The GCSA was signed into law on December 29, 2022, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.

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Agwired

JULY 17, 2024

Syngenta Crop Protection , a leader in agricultural innovation, and Ginkgo Bioworks , which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, announced a new cooperation aimed at accelerating the launch of a new biological solution. The two companies have previously collaborated on next-generation seed technology.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“I see it as a key player for maintaining food security for the 10 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050,” Abou Najm said during a recent panel discussion convened by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). “I states have standards for panel height and shading. 688, told Civil Eats.

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of their operations.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. As these communities grapple with climate change and historical inequities, they create innovative solutions, such as these underground greenhouses. In an underground greenhouse, Raycen Raines (right) helps harvest microgreens that are donated to the community.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers have increasingly recognized how essential fungi are to sequestering carbon in the soil and some have come to appreciate the outsized role they play in supporting crop health, mitigating climate change, and even sheltering crops from disease. Rows of salad greens growing on Compostella Farm in Mississippi.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 18, 2023

Several years ago, she was working to help growers adopt and improve cover-crop practices. Rather than simply imposing a solution, she collaborated directly with farmers and cover-crop councils and held interactive sessions with these groups to design interventions.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Midwestern corn and soybean growers earned more than $140,000 in 2023 for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased soil carbon through implementing regenerative agriculture practices. These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Participants will then receive incentive payments for adopting practices that — besides being “climate-smart” — have benefits such as increasing the water-holding capacity of soils, reducing the need for expensive synthetic fertilizers, and boosting overall farm productivity.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

According to CEA operators, some challenges faced by the sector are: Credit: Frontiers in Plant Science The hype surrounding the industry inflates the successes and can gloss over the serious issues that need to be addressed. At the heart of each greenhouse lies cloud-based monitoring, facilitating optimal crop management.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Credit: Greener Crop. With the addition of this new category, we have four new partners that have joined us in our journey: The Best Bees Company , Hylant Group , Greener Crop Inc. , Hylant can build policies for any scale CEA operation, from container farms all the way up to multi-acre greenhouse facilities. Greener Crop Inc.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Table of Contents The Physical Science Focus on Solutions Strong Environmental Justice Discussions Regional Chapters Northern Great Plains Northeast Southeast Caribbean Midwest Southern Great Plains Northwest Southwest Alaska Hawai’i and the U.S.-Affiliated from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

This career field is as varied as the subject of agriculture itself is: there are dairy farmers, livestock ranchers, fruit growers, crop farmers, and organic farmers, just to name a few. Farmers are the people who grow crops and raise livestock, but they are also so much more.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

However, critics highlight their outsized environmental impact, including excessive water use and pollution caused by concentrated waste, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Local dairy also supports the North Coast economy, which has been impacted by price collapses in cannabis, one of the region’s primary cash crops.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Serving as an excellent interdisciplinary educational tool for students of all ages, these methods allow for year-round crop production, water conservation, and waste reduction in comparison with traditional agriculture. Plus, students can connect more fully to the natural world through these programs. Credit: Teens for Food Justice.

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Agwired

JANUARY 13, 2025

Treasury, leaving farmers still uncertain about what practices they would need to implement this year for the crops to qualify. The biggest piece of the puzzle for the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit implementation was left out of the guidance issued last week by U.S.

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