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Young Farmers and over 70 organizations call on Congress to include the Small Farm Conservation Act in the 2023 Farm Bill

National Young Farmers Coalition

Marbleseed National Bison Association National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Pesticide Action Network (national, and CA, MN, IA, HI) Simple Mills Soil and Water Conservation Society Union of Concerned Scientists Waterkeeper Alliance Wild Farm Alliance Midwest and South Businesses and Organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (NC, SC) (..)

Farming 40
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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. Women pastoralists in particular are entirely left out of these policy spaces, said Rabari, which isnt just an issue of exclusion but means their unique ecological knowledge is lost, too. Photography via Shutterstock.