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. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

Ranching 72

Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

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. And everywhere he looked, trees had leafed out.

Marketing 89

Marketing Harvest Harvesting Harvester 89

Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. We began to divide up pastures, create agroforestry systems where we have vegetation that provides shade and food for the animals, and we began to rotate the cows in the 52 lots that we have today.”

Farming 52

Farming Farming Seeding Acre 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 104