Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. In fact, now I am a regenerative farmer.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. 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.

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Sustainable Harvest International

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Sustainable Farming Increases Income Many family farmers struggle to afford inputs such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides that they have been taught to use, even though the money spend on these takes away from their ability to meet basic needs. The surplus food can be sold at local markets, turning farms into reliable sources of income.

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NASDA

MARCH 8, 2024

We note that while the Agricultural Marketing Service solicits these comments, the SCCI is an overarching assemblage of programs and activities involving multiple USDA mission areas and agencies. NASDA believes the SCBG program must be flexible and state-driven in order to be nimble, locally responsive, and efficient.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their app, called Plantix, could near-instantaneously diagnose a crop pest or disease simply by looking at a photo of the plant. If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” A farmer uses the Plantix app to diagnose crop pests and disease.

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AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Gene editing, phage technology, crops and livestock among projects supported The post Texas A&M AgriLife faculty earn Advancing Discovery to Market Innovation Awards appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 13, 2025

The challenge lies in evaluating the vast array of tools available on the market. Start by analyzing the specific requirements of your operation: Operational focus: Are you primarily managing crops, livestock, or a combination of both? This allows farmers to act proactively rather than reactively.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or the “Agency”) on EPA’s October 12, 2023 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) concerning the Agency’s approach to regulation of seeds treated with a pesticide registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”), 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.

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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. With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts.

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dear Secretary Vilsack and Director Young: As the Administration develops its budget proposal for FY 2025, we respectfully urge you to once again protect crop insurance from harmful cuts. It is the certainty of the crop insurance program that provides critical reassurance to lenders.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By implementing micro-irrigation systems and optimized irrigation schedules, RegenCrops achieved 95% water savings, while soil carbon increased by 33% through cover cropping, organic soil amendments, and conservative tillage.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Today, industrial farming methods are heavily dependent on monocropping practices, synthetic fertilisers and pesticides all of which harm biodiversity and soil organisms, much like how the overuse of antibiotics affects humans.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.

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DTN

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ag retailers who build crop plans for their farmer clients need to consider how hyper-local weather forecasts and long-range outlooks can better position their solutions to deliver results. Planting dates, irrigation schedules, crop protection measures and more are all driven by weather.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 16, 2024

Terra Vera and Build With Robots are partnering to provide automated crop management pesticide alternative solutions. The post Tech Innovators Team Up to Launch Portable Fogger for Automated Crop Management appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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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. Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. Intensive agriculture has replaced some ecosystem services over the years.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It's all about planting a whole bunch of different crops together in the same field. In this system, every crop gets its moment in the spotlight, ensuring everything is sustainable and eco-friendly. In this system, every crop gets its moment in the spotlight, ensuring everything is sustainable and eco-friendly.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

Farmers deal with a complex web of processes in diverse areas that may be under their purvue, including crops, livestock, finance, recordkeeping, harvesting, marketing, etc. If we strategically focus on improving processes in the highest two categories, we could potentially reduce the causes of low crop yield by 72% on this farm.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yet despite the Act’s historical ties to pesticides—the discovery of DDT’s impacts on bald eagles was one factor that propelled lawmakers to begin protecting threatened species—officials in the pesticide office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are only now starting to figure out how to comply with the law.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better. Most N demand is in midsummer.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 3, 2023

During this time, farmers are tasked with the delicate responsibility of managing a diverse array of crops, including grapes, apples, pears, plums, olives, and an assortment of other fruit trees, alongside late vegetables like cabbage, carrots, salads, and root crops.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Without pest control, farmers would lose 30-80% of their crops. Recently, regulations in Europe have removed a huge number of pesticides. Pesticide resistance was a big problem, and organic farmers had very few tools to control pests. We identified our beachhead market and strategized how to expand and where to enter the market.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 28, 2025

AgPlenus is a pesticide discovery company implementing cutting-edge AI and deep-learning to discover novel sustainable crop protection solutions. Axelerators enables rapid prototyping, testing, development and registration of novel crop protection, biostimulants, biofertilizers, and soil regeneration products.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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NASDA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Or it could lead to less use of inputs and, without the use of pesticides, farmers can lose up to 80% of their crops annually due to pests and disease. Without the savings from the MTB, it could lead to increased prices of final agricultural commodities, raising the cost of food and jeopardizing global competitiveness.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

“The National Soil Carbon Monitoring Network [one of the programs announced] will allow us to have systematic coverage, where we’re taking soil samples and assessing soil carbon density across different soil types, different management systems, different tillage types, and different strategies with regard to the use of cover crops,” he said.

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Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Farmers have been using chlorpyrifos (more commonly known as the former product Lorsban®) to protect their crops from pests since 1965. But in 2021, the EPA issued a ruling that effectively banned the pesticide from use. 2015 : EPA proposes a ban for chlorpyrifos use on food crops in response to the 2007 petition.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

State departments of agriculture work in tandem with federal partners through cooperative agreements administered by USDA-APHIS, alongside industry, academia, and other stakeholders, to safeguard our Nation’s crops and forests against the entry, establishment, and spread of economically and environmentally significant pests.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

This rule will disproportionally stifle innovation by publicly supported federal and academic plant breeders and smaller plant breeding companies, inhibiting their development of new varieties, particularly of specialty and other smaller acreage crops. These characteristics have been sought after by plant breeders for centuries.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For a food to become certified organic, the farmland must be proven to have not received any pesticides or unapproved substances for at least three years. Certified organic farms can’t use pesticides or other prohibited substances. Photo by Shutterstock) MF: Part of the initiative is to bolster organic markets.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

Rumors swirled of a potential shortage; almond growers scrambled to ensure they had enough bees to pollinate their valuable crop, reaching out to beekeepers as far away as Florida, striking deals with mom-and-pop operations that kept no more than a few hundred bees. Will it work? Department of Agriculture.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. It’s likely that within this centralized market, carbon emissions and sequestration will be part of the formula used to determine whether grain was sustainably grown.

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