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Investing in Controlled Environment Agriculture with Confidence

Agritecture Blog

Vertical farms and greenhouses are seeing much more capital investment than they had in the past, and CEA businesses are improving their unit economics through new technologies which attract investment, as well. Are they distributing into the right market segments?”

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America’s favorite fruit reveals the hidden truth about food waste

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin stepped in and found a way to ship his state’s modest yield of apples to hungry mouths (and get the growers paid for it). In fact, there are many similarly high-tech solutions to food waste — including storage control, AI-run distribution systems, anaerobic digesters, and more.

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Where Corn and Soybeans are King, Some Farmers See ‘Unconventional’ Future

Modern Farmer

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Bushel Boy has a Mason City operation with 17 acres of greenhouses growing different kinds of tomatoes. They yield very high,” Carlson said.

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Uninsured: Federal Crop Insurance Program Leaves Most Farms Unprotected

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Before we even consider how subsidies are distributed, we need to recognize that many small and mid-sized farms are not part of the system at all. But there is an even more fundamental issue: smaller farms are far less likely to have crop insurance in the first place.

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Op-Ed | Food Systems Must Change, and Change Must Be Measured

Food Tank

They produce around 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It starts with governments having a plan to transform their food systems in ways that incentivize the production, distribution and consumption of foods that are good for health and good for the environment. And we know what is needed to turn food systems around.

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Opinion: To Make a Real Impact on Climate Change, We Must Move Beyond the Carbon Footprint

Modern Farmer

The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison. carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. The result?

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Whose Farm Is More Sustainable? Calculating Farm Sustainability.

DTN

Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields. The CO 2 e is used to standardize emissions from all types of greenhouse gases (e.g., All data are collected consistently with identical questionnaires deployed, irrespective of county, commodity, year, and farm type.

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