Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Proving that innovation thrives on a small-scale, the winners of the 3rd annual Small Farm Innovation Challenge bring appropriate tech solutions to local agriculture. In the “Hardware” category, the Amiga by Farm-ng based in Watsonville, CA took the top prize.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. In its second year, the Challenge sought submissions from around the world for innovations that can help solve the unique challenges facing small farms and local food systems.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 20, 2021

Just like Jesus presented Himself as "the bread of life" so those of us in the authentic food and farming tribe present our protocols and production as life-giving rather than sickness-giving--economically, emotionally, and ecologically. Church becomes mechanical, just like the factory farmed pig.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A strong sense of ecological production practices exists and fortunately this country does not have to hit as severe an “undo” button as countries like the U.S. But numerous exhibits had drones to fly on chemicals and AI mechanisms to adjust chemical fertilizer. A broad hopefulness of reversing the degenerative trend is apparent.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Its much more complex than that.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

CAFF’s Wildfire Resilience Program provides specialized recovery and preparedness resources for small farms and communities in California impacted by wildfire and those seeking to prepare against future threats. Episode 3 The finale of Season 3 brings us to First Rain Farm , nestled in the densely forested foothills of Nevada County.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s a far cry from the idyllic, pastoral imagery often associated with farm life, but it is a picture becoming ever closer to reality. Rooted in principles of ecology, localism, democracy, equity and justice, agroecology offers a compelling alternative to the industrial food system.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Conclusion Farming and ranching on soil with a high pH can be challenging, particularly when excess salts have accumulated.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Soil prep increases time, labor, and overall farming costs, and potentially increases soil disturbance.

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Caff

MAY 31, 2023

Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Locke Ranch on May 23rd. Chris Locke described the farm’s soil at that time as essentially a “dust bowl.” Christy uses the pressure bomb to measure water stress.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Here, Becky reflects on the thriving biodiversity on their hill farm and the interconnectedness of the farm and nature.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While the traditional use of farming methods that promote soil health (and do not use agrochemicals) have been practised for millennia, the ‘organic movement’ started in the 1940s when the Green Revolution started to take full force. As Compson says, “Unlike some eco-claims, in most regions the term organic is protected by law.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

It plans to do this by public and private means with the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 which contains schemes incentivising and helping farmers to adopt nature-friendly farming practices, and a Green Finance Strategy to encourage more private investment.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ryan Mason transitions a successful urban farm operation back to his rural roots in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. He spent the first eighteen years of his life on his family’s farm — a small-scale chicken operation — in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. We both wanted to get into farming as a way to contribute to bettering the food system,” says Ryan.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

At Arla Foods , its UK emissions are 4.8MtCo23 and 83% of those come from its farms. Arla is running pilots with 24 farmers in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark to “explore regenerative farming methods in a structured and coordinated manner.” Nestlé ’s footprint is 92MtCO2e with 71% from ‘ingredients sourcing’.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

Stress in the nest Birds nesting near agricultural lands may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of heat, says Katherine Lauck, a doctoral candidate in ecology at UC Davis and the lead author of a paper published in Science that examined the effects of heat stress on birds. Want to make your farm more bird-friendly?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. We recommend doing trials on your own farm or ranch to understand the effect of any product, and lime is no different. Youll be glad you did.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When it comes to North American farming, by contrast, people might picture wooden fences, wire fencing or terracing between one type of crop and another. Shortly after the Revolutionary War, though, hedgerows were poised to be as much a part of US agriculture as they had been integral to UK farming. A hedgerow on a California farm.

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The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted with residences, farms, and a general store. What mechanism is at work between 6PPD-quinone and the coho? The Nisqually Tribe and researchers are trying to find a solution. According to Tian, several questions remain.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. CHEAP FOOD VERSUS PRECIOUS FOOD.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Hes full of questions, full of curiosity and a lot of drive, Wagner says.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

The data comes from USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), which collected information on production practices at hog farms housing 1,000 or more pigs between December 2020 and May 2021. Read More: The FDA Is Still Not Tracking How Farms Use Antibiotics Ads for Livestock Antibiotics Fly in the Face of FDA Rules.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

For example, livestock production, fertilizer use and deforestation for farm expansion exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions. Tanzania launched its National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy in November 2023, Kenya its National Agroecology Strategy in November 2024, and countries like Uganda and Zambia will soon follow suit, noted Fegert.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

The lake once spilled its water into the Everglades, but, beginning in the early twentieth century, a dike was built along its southern shore to protect local farms. A sprawling reservoir, built south of Lake Okeechobee, could store (and clean) some water before it was sent on to farms and cities and to Everglades National Park.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

according to eHistory’s Invasion of America project—has hugely impacted their abilities to hunt, fish, forage, and farm. She points out that the massive land loss Native peoples experienced due to settler colonialism—more than 1.5 billion acres across the U.S., Recent research backs this approach.

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