National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Forestry : Forests play a significant role in reducing carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration. This priority area will accept proposals for climate smart forestry and agroforestry in one of the following two areas: agroforestry and climate resilience. fertilizer or feed). Forests store carbon in trees, shrubs, and soil.

Farming 79

Farming Farming Forestry Technology 79

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

Ranching 72

Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

ATTRA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees into cropping and/or livestock systems, inspired by Indigenous wisdom, and it can be applied in many ways and in many different places – even in cities! Botanic Garden. Remediate your soils. If soils are severely depleted, consider planting in raised garden beds. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Food 111

Food Distribution Rural Development Forestry 111

Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Agroforestry currently represents less than 1 percent of U.S.

Marketing 89

Marketing Harvester Harvesting Harvest 89

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization.

biotechnology 122

biotechnology Ecology Technology Food 122

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

22-caliber shells he’d purchased online from a forestry supply store in Colorado. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. In a frequently cited 2009 paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology , a trio of researchers identified more than 139 shade-tolerant plants that have invaded deeply shaded forests.

Ecology 119

Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 119

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

Ruralism 104

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 104