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Agritecture Blog
MARCH 23, 2023
These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. 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. It is located on 1.2
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JUNE 1, 2023
Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
JULY 13, 2023
Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. Now, climate-smart agriculture aims to recapture some of that carbon. “A
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 The seed of a solution A new funding stream for growers is required, Melvin says, to get leftover produce into the food bank system.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for corn and 3.5 percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MARCH 1, 2025
Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 12, 2022
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