Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 3, 2024

Fancy software and analysis can predict how different grape varietals could expand in distribution under climate change. Simulating pollen flow and field sampling constraints helps revise seed sampling recommendations for conserving genetic diversity. ClimMob: Software to support experimental citizen science in agriculture.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’re closing out Farm-to-School Month by sharing the next installment of Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum: Growing from Seed to Harvest. The module wraps up with a hands-on activity like seed starting or food tasting that supports students in deepening their relationship to their food, nutrition and the land.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

For the event, we partnered with Farm Church , whose pastor/master gardener fielded endless gardening questions with grace and patience while giving away seeds, plant starts, and oak saplings donated by a community member. In this photo, volunteers harvest fresh herbs right before heading to a produce giveaway.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down. Even Distribution : Ensure the nutrient solution is evenly distributed across all plants to avoid deficiencies or excesses in your operation. Applying Fertilizer at Planting: Apply fertilizer at the time you plant.

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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. 70,625 (Oct. 12, 2023).

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I love direct seeding crops; it feels like an act of faith that the seeds won’t fail, or the weeds won’t choke them out. If I can help it, I don’t waste seeds on soil that is too hot or too cold. I need this textural perfection for the seeding tools made for freshly tilled and shaped beds. Jang seeder.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The way we produce, distribute, consume and dispose of food represents the “number one threat to people and to nature,” argued Joao Campari, Global Lead of WWF’s International, Food Practice. Food systems generate US$20 trillion of social, human and environmental costs per year , dwarfing their US$9 trillion market value.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The global distribution of plants used by humans. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol: Implications and Compliance Strategies for the Global Coffee Community. Maybe they should consider the Plant Treaty approach? 35,687 of them, and their richness is negatively correlated with protected areas.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Representing State Lead Agencies in 43 states, NASDA members are tasked with numerous elements of pesticide regulation that are immediately impacted by this decision, including the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the production, labeling, distribution, sale, use, and disposal of pesticides under FIFRA.

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Cropin Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Synopsis: In this listicle, we discuss the top challenges faced by the seed industry across product development, R&D, innovation, seed production, and seed distribution. As we explore the challenges, we also uncover innovative solutions to address them.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 18, 2024

UfarmX discovered that by providing drought-resistant seeds, organic fertilizers like rabbit urine, and education on sustainable methods, farmers were able to triple their crop yields and significantly increase revenue. UFarmX recently partnered with The SEED Project, a non-governmental organization working with the U.S.

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Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC and Gowan SeedTech LLC announced they have entered into a sale agreement with Gowan acquiring Syngentas FarMore Technology Vegetable Seed Treatment Platform in the United States. The association also has over 100 associate and affiliate members, representing all facets of the seed industry.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 9, 2024

The talk has been viewed nearly 5 million times since then, and one of its most memorable lines—“Growing your own food is like printing your own money”—has since become the seed of Finley’s burgeoning philanthropic work. Since March 2023, the campaign has distributed more than 2,000 bills around the U.S. and beyond.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 31, 2024

They are funding the production and distribution of these vegetables, in my case carrots, using profits from their conventional trade. The post Labour has an opportunity to sow the seeds of change in farming and food appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust. This article was originally published by Goals House on LinkedIn.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Register now for the 36th Independent Professional Seed Association (IPSA) Annual Conference January 6-9, at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, CA. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) highlights a wide range of pumps ideal for seed treatment applications.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

The pantry is just one location in Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County ’s network of nearly 300 distribution sites; the 41-year-old organization serves an average of 430,000 people per month who are experiencing food insecurity. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution. Photography courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens Seeding Empire connects the dots between some of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to those taking place across the African continent today.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Walmart was interested, but its minimum order tends to be enough to stock one of its distribution centerseach of which serves around 100 stores. It had giant combines, chemicals stored in one-ton plastic tanks, and a 12-row planter drilling rice seeds into a field by an oxbow lake. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The government instituted measures to increase production of these crops through input distribution and promotion through extension systems, Brazier tells Food Tank. Food and seed festivals held more regularly across the country are doing a lot to increase the popularity of these crops and foods.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Daniel Walton April 21, 2023 The Utopian Seed Project is growing dozens of types of okra in one North Carolina field, creating genetic collisions that build new, resilient varieties. And when those seeds came up in garden plots across the U.S., Credit: Chris Smith.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2025

It is applied as a seed treatment as well as in-furrow, drip or sub irrigation. Researchers have been updating the map of known soybean cyst nematode (SCN) distribution regularly since 2000, and with each update, the threat spreads. and Canada overlap the SCN distribution map. Sales of Ag tractors fell 11.3 In the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. She chuckles while explaining how she got there: in an RV with two loved ones and two dogs.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AGCO Corporation , a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, celebrated the grand opening of the AGCO Technician Training Center at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. Seeds treated with new BioBoost start out strong and get season-long nutritional benefits.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

They send them produce bags every weekright now, I think they distribute to around 1,000 kids. We need to be looking at how we can build more local food systems, with distribution, that are more vertically integrated. We need more seed-starting programs. About 90 percent of our food goes there. Just look around now.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The TWIN ARM suspension system prevents the discs from deviating sideways on hard ground, ensuring that the whole surface is moved, which ultimately ensures uniform application of the seed material and fertiliser. The fertiliser and seed material is therefore distributed throughout the entire cross section or soil movement.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

While PLC payments have been near zero for the most recent years due to high commodity prices, even in years of record-high farm profits and high commodity prices, ARC has continued to distribute substantial payments. In 2022, American farms had record high profits of $187.9

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. The seedballs contain a dense powerhouse of nutrients and protective elements that give the enclosed seeds a greater chance to flourish in a challenging climate. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

As a result, NYC gardeners have been addressing food apartheid themselves for years by turning vacant lots into food production and distribution sites. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Route 1 will hire three to five individuals to work the freight farm and will then distribute the food grown to local communities. The freight farm will be delivered near the end of February, to coincide with Black History Month, Carpenter said. An example of how harvest may look like at a freight farm.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 18, 2024

One hundred and fifty organizations, such as the SEED , the Second Harvest Food Rescue App , and Community FEWD , collected food waste and distributed food. They also worked with the municipality’s health organization to prescribe produce to patients.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With grant funding from Travis County, New Leaf purchases all of these crops (including those consumed by farmers and their families) and distributes them free of charge within their respective communities. In Congo, the seeds are bigger, so we just plant them in the ground.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This new feature simplifies the process of managing fields and field operations data, allowing platform users to automatically synchronize information such as field boundaries, fertilizer application, seeding, spraying, and harvesting directly from their John Deere Operations Center. Millborn Seeds, Inc. , Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The nimble group of New Orleans urban farmers and food justice advocates travels directly to farms across Louisiana to offer funds, lend tools, rehome animals, organize volunteers, distribute food, and help farmers with post-disaster paperwork. We want to be able to grow food for people.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2023

In an effort to increase awareness about the pest, researchers have, for the first time, mapped the distribution of SRK in field crops (any field that might someday rotate to soybeans) by county across the continental United States. a diverse seed portfolio focused on maximizing profitability and long-term land resiliency.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JUNE 3, 2024

The B7 comprises the main business and industrial federations of the G7 members and the European Union.

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