Food Tank

APRIL 15, 2024

This is because there is demand for the seeds, but not the surrounding fruit or other parts of the plant. pounds of greenhouse gas, and saves 102 gallons of water. I Am Grounded has turned coffee fruit into energy bars since 2019, saving over 15,000 kilograms of fruit, or the equivalent weight of about 2.5 African elephants.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Transparent tarps nailed to the ends of a half-finished greenhouse whipped in the wind behind him. Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build.

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Agwired

MARCH 28, 2025

Syngenta Crop Protection has signed an agreement with Agrauxine by Lesaffre to private label and exclusively distribute Syngentas products STROVEQ and SPREXIMA. These products will be sold and distributed in the ornamental market in the US. Sakata Seed America, Inc. Sakata Seed America, Inc.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. And disabled veterans are just as capable, she adds, particularly in marketing, logistics, distribution and compliance. Over six weeks, the curriculum covers the full seed-to-market process including access to financing, food safety and building a business plan around a farming operation.

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Agwired

MAY 22, 2024

In a significant move to revolutionize greenhouse management, Sollum Technologies is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Damatex. This collaboration combines the greenhouse lighting control features of Sollum’s proprietary SUN as a Service cloud platform with Damatex’s advanced climate control systems.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But while the world watched as engineers scrambled to remove this gargantuan threat to a multi-billion dollar supply chain, CAFF was back home planting seeds for local resilience. In March of this year, an Empire State Building-sized cargo ship infamously lodged itself in the Suez Canal. WILL YOU HELP US KEEP THIS MOMENTUM GOING STRONG?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They also cause power outages and disrupt transportation and distribution, which increases the price of all goods, including food. And there’s mustard: Prices skyrocketed in 2021 due to a severe drought in Canada, the world’s largest producer of brown mustard seeds. Here in the U.S., Andina founder Peter Platt. Photos by Anna Caitlin.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Overall, GreenWave aims to shape a connected group of farmers worldwide so they can distribute information and forge connections between producers, buyers, and sellers. Their Regenerative Ocean Farming Hub is an online community for farmers that offers a free seed-to-scale training program. Credit: Seawater Greenhouse.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. For one thing, friendly fescue, formally known as “novel endophyte fescue,” costs twice as much as the toxic variety — $4 for a pound of seed versus $2. There aren’t good numbers on adoption rates because seed companies are guarded about how much they sell.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. With organic, Walmart could push farms to get bigger, driving costs down and enabling national distribution.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 12, 2020

The greenhouse is up and humming, high tunnel planting started, and we are seeding up a storm, because that’s what farmers do. All the flats cleaned and ready to start seeding in! On the CSA front, we have contingency plans for distributions, depending upon how things look by summer.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Lisa Held January 13, 2023 Inside a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse in west Baltimore at the end of June, untended basil plants were falling over and going to seed. Reidy, the founder and CEO of a real estate design company that helped build and raise funds for the Green Street greenhouse.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Another big factor is end of life. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Some of the benefits of incorporating vertical farming and hydroponics into school curricula include: Hands-on learning experiences - Students can participate in all aspects of the growing process, from seed selection to crop harvesting, all while learning about the science behind plant growth, nutrition, and water management.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. Before planting, he’ll also coat his seeds in a mycorrhizal treatment, a powder of spores.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Data from the 2022 Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report reveals that the number of seed stage deals rose nearly 70% in 2021, compared to an 8% jump the previous year , while overall agrifoodtech deals grew 250% from 2020. A further breakdown indicates that Egypt claimed $186.1 million, with Nigeria securing $147.8 million, Kenya $88.5

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back. Some of the first year’s crop was lost to cold weather, so today the plants begin in a greenhouse long before being replanted outside. It pays a premium for berries—$4.75

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The seed of a solution A new funding stream for growers is required, Melvin says, to get leftover produce into the food bank system. If we buy or bring in more perishable products than we can distribute, then we end up with waste and have to spend money to get rid of that waste. A worker dumps pre-consumer food waste in Langley, B.C.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We've done a lot of analysis comparing our farming costs to traditional farms and greenhouses, and we are close in all categories. This gives us amazing flexibility into how we design vertical farms to meet business, operational, site, and distribution considerations vs. a one-size fits all approach.

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Hartwood Farm

DECEMBER 29, 2020

For small shares, CSA distributions ranged in weekly value from $21 in those chilly first weeks to $36 for the hearty fall boxes, with about a $28.75 Our biggest new plans for 2021 are to fully utilize our new greenhouse and high tunnel space. weekly average value and 8 items a week.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

We learned that the garden is home to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) foodways that serve as an archive of seeds for African, Middle Eastern, and Four Corners bio-regional terraces, to protect culturally rooted, regionally adapted foods. Vrain School District’s innovative wide-ranging experiential learning programming.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

Stine Seed Company is proud to announce that March 27, 2025, will be officially proclaimed Women in Agriculture Day in Iowa. Bayer announced the opening of a new maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia. To clearly represent the value that we deliver, Crop Protection and Seeds are uniting under one brand Nufarm. wheat production.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We It’s a greenwashing scheme.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. They currently have 13 urban agricultural facilities, school gardens, hydroponic greenhouses, and soil-based farms. food culture.

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Food Tank

MAY 10, 2024

Our global food system accounts for approximately 10 percent of our global economy and nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Food has a powerful impact on our lives—one that goes beyond our plates. Across East Africa, Oxfam is working with local organizations and humanitarian networks to reach more than 1.3

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation. Through its Seeds for Resilience project, Crop Trust aims to strengthen national gene banks across sub-Saharan Africa, helping local farmers access diverse, climate-resilient crops.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

New research suggests that cover crops may struggle to make a significant dent in agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. The company uses soil samples and computer models to estimate the greenhouse gases emitted from, and taken up by, participating farmers’ fields. But as the hype for cover crops mounts, so does the scrutiny.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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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. As part of that program, the USDA began distributing $3.1

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. In many regions, cooperatives also play a key role in ensuring food security by supporting local agricultural production and distribution networks. Buy local when possible.)

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed. Since October, 40% of Gaza’s total farmland has been destroyed by bombs and bulldozers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

While there are a handful of proposals that NSAC is pleased to see included, an extended series of misguided provisions in the FFNSA would only perpetuate the inequitable distribution of resources in U.S. For instance, the Trump Administration distributed $28 billion to commodity producers disrupted by its trade war with China.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And the meat industry alone, by some estimates, accounts for nearly 60 percent of all greenhouse gasses produced by the food system. Climate change, though, is where the game is really changing for meat. And on it went.

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