Ecology Finance Pasture 
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill., has always been ecologically minded. Adams notes they also pay farmers for offering education, research and outreach.
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The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 20, 2022
Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? We’ll have Abram Bowerman, a young 24-year-old farmer in the Midwest who is bootstrapping a sheep operation, self-financed, and fully employed. Three of our urban patrons will talk about why they buy pastured meat and poultry.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. And agroforestry has broad ecological positives that aren’t necessarily reflected in the raw accounting of carbon offsets.
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. As she has allowed pastures to rest, she has seen the return of species diversity and a rise in perennial grasses.
OECD: Environment
JUNE 16, 2023
Agricultural and ecological droughts that used to occur once every 10 years are projected to occur twice as often – even in (an increasingly unlikely) low warming scenario of 1.5°C C in drying regions (Figure). Droughts also exacerbate other climate-related risks, such as wildfires.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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