National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When you look at the environmental degradation, like the seepage of nitrogen fertilizer into water systems, simply having the ability to know exactly how much fertilizer and water should go on the plants is the best way to avoid that.” “One of the issues that precision agriculture gets to is the overuse of inputs,” Orr says.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Its foundation relies on resource-intensive commodity crop production, which needs the majority of fertile lands to feed animals kept in confined spaces. Fertile agricultural soils should be used to grow diverse, nutritious crops for humans. But a closer look at our food system reveals many challenges.

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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. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Its much more complex than that. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The goats, and to some extent the cows, have been replaced by sheep in recent times, a shift that speaks to the widespread social, cultural and ecological degradation that has occurred thanks to more than two centuries of Highland Clearances , followed by agricultural intensification.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The predominant view in agriculture is still one where tillage is used to pulverize the soil for good seed to soil contact, and readily available fertilizers need to be applied so the crop doesn’t experience a shortage of nutrients. Their answers aren’t surprising either, because it’s exactly what we were taught in high school and college.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic squash farming focuses on growing squash without synthetic chemicals, fertilizers, or pesticides. Organic squash farming encourages sustainable practices that maintain ecological balance. It promotes the use of natural methods to cultivate healthy, environmentally friendly crops.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic apples farming prioritizes ecological balance. Farmers avoid synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, instead using organic alternatives such as compost, cover crops, and… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Apples Farming

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting clear, measurable goals helps you develop a strategic plan, prioritize investments, and make informed decisions to maximize your land's potential while preserving its ecological balance. What is the soil fertility? Takeaways: Identify the type of farming you want to pursue (crop, livestock, mixed).

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Solutions to food security, with fertile lands and natural resources. Read the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s report that showcases 10 food-focused initiatives that have taken action to promote human, ecological, and animal health and well-being HERE. As #COP29 unfolds, let’s push for food system reforms for better health.”

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. In order to preserve the cooperative and the future of the families it supports, Garibaldi strives to be “socially fair, ecologically correct, economically viable and culturally diverse,” according to their website. Martinique Rhum J.M

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The initiative also connects ecological health and food security. According to the FAO , ecosystems play a crucial role in agriculture by providing vital services like nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and water regulation.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Whereas at one time she advocated organic approaches and specific practices to deal with singular issues with pests or crop fertility, she now fosters a system based on ecological farm design. Note that this system doesn’t pay exclusive attention to nitrogen as is wanted by many of us farmers and gardeners.

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Caff

MARCH 22, 2024

Gullies pose many threats to farmland, including the removal of fertile topsoil, damage to infrastructure, danger to livestock, and decreased water quality. Bibliography Fire Safe Sonoma May 2023 Speaker Series — Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center , 2023. link] Neary, Daniel G.,

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Caff

MAY 18, 2023

First, we hear from Lorraine Walker of Eatwell Farm in Dixon, CA, where they incorporate laying hens into their diversified vegetable production, and also touch on soil health and fertility management.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the world of woolly aphids, exploring their behavior, lifecycle, ecological impact, specific control methods, and additional preventive measures to effectively manage and protect our green spaces. Ecological Impact Woolly aphids can have both direct and indirect ecological impacts on the environment.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Inflation is leading families to cut back on meals and farmers to cut back on seeds and fertilizers. A study published by Groundswell international and Partenariat pour le Developpement Local finds that rural farmers in Haiti who engage in agroecology are more than twice as productive, more ecologically positive, and more food secure.

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NASDA

MARCH 18, 2024

These challenges have greatly slowed agency regulatory functions, which in turn have delayed product registrations needed by growers and other users, as well as the implementation of new ecological and human health protections. million for the operations of EPA-OPP.

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is a Nairobi-based research institute that elevates the role insects play in the creation of environmentally and socially sustainable food systems across Africa. Founded in 1970, icipe aims to understand how insects can best be introduced across the food system.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

It also improves soil’s fertility, its structure for conveying nutrients and capacity to retain water. Then also, ‘what can we learn from soil?’” Farming methods over the past 50 years, such as growing monocultures and fertilizing depleted soil to prop up the system, are shortsighted, says Singer. Singer is notably not a scientist.

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ATTRA

APRIL 7, 2025

But livestock integration can greatly enhance soil structure and soil fertility. Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, January 25, 2024. Livestock Integration: Optional but Highly Beneficial Some consider livestock integration to be an optional principle in syntropic systems. Not all farms can or want to have livestock.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

They had tasted the hit-or-miss wild varieties that grow in the fertile soil along the Susquehanna River, but got hooked during a visit to Deep Run, a Maryland orchard with a range of pawpaw cultivars among its 1,000 trees. For Campbell, that makes it a “gateway” to developing more locally focused and ecologically beneficial food systems.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Harsh chemical fertilizers disrupt natural soil networks made up of plants and fungi. In the past 150 years , half of the world’s fertile soil has disappeared. Instead of synthetic fertilizers, regenerative agriculture works with nature to maintain healthy soil ecosystems. In nature, everything leans towards balance.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

By: Florence Reed , Founder + Director of Sustainable Harvest International With the war in Ukraine, the global food crisis looms large, given that Ukraine is a major global exporter of both wheat and chemical fertilizers. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

Claire talked about the process of getting started in selling products to school districts and the importance of marketing your unique ecological story. Claire Tauber from CAFF’s Farm to Market team, Miguel Alvarez and Hanna Kahl from CAFF’s Ecological Farming team. Additionally, being such a novel method of farming in the U.S.,

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Darker soils, better water infiltration, less fertilizer. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. Many ask, can these soils be repaired with cover crops?

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Without getting into the health tradeoffs, let’s think about the ecological tradeoffs. Switching to grass-based (not grain based) cow’s milk could be one of the most ecologically-friendly decisions you could make right now. That happened long before automobiles and chemical fertilizers. Almonds only grow in hot areas.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Whatever your position on climate movement, this is yet another confirmation that nature provides us with all the tools necessary to live abundantly without sacrificing ecology. Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer? Like glyphosate? Or factory farms? Or cattle feedlots?

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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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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

With support from the European Union (EU) , AlgaeProBANOS is working to bring algae, ecology, and business experts together through the coordination of the SUBMARINER Network. Filled with nutrient runoff from fertilizers, the waters create the perfect environment for algal blooms.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use. “The Green Revolution created a sense of euphoria that we have solved our production problem.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. This satisfied all my criteria for acceptable water-based sewage systems: leveraging the fertility, keeping it out of the ground water, and a portable distribution system. Couple that with anti-ecology and you have a recipe for dysfunction.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

Discussions kicked off with Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management (EPM) specialist, providing background on the organization’s pest management research from the ‘90s, known as BIOS. They grew their cover crop, they limbed their trees, and now they’ve created their own fertility. And composting can be extremely local.

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