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Whose Farm Is More Sustainable? Calculating Farm Sustainability.

DTN

Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence. Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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. Better manure management is among the climate-smart practices the USDA is funding in the partnerships. 28, 2019. “But

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Where your (ultraprocessed) food comes from

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. In the years after World War II, U.S. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution.

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