Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. While market uncertainty persists, projected prices decline further for crops harvested in 2024, and net farm income falls to the lowest level since 2020. Register for AgCon2024.

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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.” Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm. The annual crops and drainage tile started to create this leaky system.” Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. I don’t blame them.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

“As you’re structuring your cropping and the livestock rotations, you’re having to actively adapt, sometimes daily, to deal with the weather conditions.” million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. Now, a new crop of seaweed startups, many funded by venture capital and tech industry players, is pouring millions into projects using seaweed to mitigate climate change.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. But I think we should be much more vigilant about maintaining productivity” as more farmers start using cover crops.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We Second Harvest CEO Lori Nikkel says the food rescue charity supported 4.3 Credit: Hektor Habili/Second Harvest. Credit: Ben Nelms/Reuters.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack , cover crops are being asked to do something new and high-stakes: draw atmospheric carbon into the soil to help fight climate change.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock.

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