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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Lunch and Learn: Ethanol, Implications and a Livelihood

Wisconsin Farmers Union

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Agroforestry Deepens Roots with New Demonstration Farm Network

Modern Farmer

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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Inflation Reduction Act Conservation Dollars Are a Vital Bulwark Against Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In August 2022, Congress passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation that provided nearly $20 billion dollars to the United States Department of Agriculture for various programs capable of reducing greenhouse gasses across our food and farm system, including CSP.

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Can Agroforestry Breathe New Life Into Carbon Markets?

Civil Eats

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.