Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Photo credit: Jess Giacobbe) A nybody who is interested—urban, suburban or rural gardeners and farmers or any land stewards—can participate in Carbon Sponge. She’s an award-winning professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase where she teaches Dark Ecology, a class closely aligned with her work in the ecological art space.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. We are female; we are male.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

He hadn’t considered including backyard gardens in rural areas in the sample, he said, even though city gardens were. “We We were not necessarily attempting to compare urban and rural food production,” he said. “In The port also handles imports and exports of commodity grains, coffee, and farm equipment.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops. When we can introduce cattle to that grain land, it really makes a big improvement,” explains Rod. “It

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Holistic land management that builds diversity of crops and livestock , adds perennials in the form of agroforestry and deep-rooted perennial grasses like grains, keeps the soil covered and living roots in the ground , and integrates livestock into the landscape all represent highly effective climate and agriculture solutions.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

It started with a post-war boom of generous government subsidies favoring overproduction , which coupled with advances in hybrid crops and synthetic inputs, meant farmers focused on just a select few staple grain crops. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction. The Quinoa Bust explores the work that went into popularizing the ancient Andean grain and the new disasters that came with its popularity.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 10, 2024

Last week, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), alongside 97 food, farm, conservation, and rural organizations, delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators urging them to fully fund the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) at $60 million in fiscal year (FY) 2025.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

When soil erosion and climate change collide We’ve all seen grainy historical photos of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s —a nearly decade-long confluence of recurring severe droughts, poor farming practices, and plummeting grain prices that devastated much of the Great Plains and drove the largest migration in US history.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the early 19th century, hay and grain would have still been hand cut by an army of people using scythes. Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5 We’ve managed to make food much more affordable by mechanising, but in doing so, it’s become ecologically expensive.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? Every economic study you’ve ever seen shows that the way to true prosperity in our country is a vibrant rural economy coupled with a strong small-business infrastructure, not a handful of major mega-corporations.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

We decided to call the farm ‘Redtail Farms’ as an ode to my father and his love for birds and ecology — and the way he farmed as closely with nature as he could,” says Griebel. They are committed to farming with nature, not against it, and restoring the natural grassland ecology. A few years later, he passed away. “We

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The carbon is being used by the microbes—the ecology of the soil—to do all things: build organic matter, soil structure, increase infiltration, and feed life.” Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” I think if we hadn’t been a small farm, we wouldn’t still be here,” admits Jenna.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

Farm groups including the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) applauded the USDA for introducing a rule that could significantly change how contract farmers who raise chickens for big companies including Tyson, Mountaire, and Pilgrim’s are paid.

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