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We Need Regenerative Agriculture, But How Can Farmers Fund the Transition?

Modern Farmer

Image courtesy of Mad Agriculture Multi-year credit helps established farms Recently, Fitzgerald Organics acquired 140 acres of farmland, and needed financing to transition the plots to organic, as well as implement cover crops and plant pollinator strips.

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One-of-a-kind 'agri-hood' would blend housing, farming and racial justice on Far East Side of Madison

Agritecture Blog

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be.

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Secrets of the swamp

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The Everglades Foundation was formed in the 1990s by two wealthy fishing buddies—billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and an Orlando real estate developer named George Barley. When he first came to Florida to work as a hydrologist for the water management district in the 1980s, he had few ecological inclinations. Two companies—U.S.

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