The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The results range from localized drinking water contamination to ecological and economic damage in water bodies far from the source of the pollution. It’s a recurring ecological disaster that causes hardship for people who make their living from fishing, shrimping, and tourism. All the time.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Failure to robustly fund public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems stifles scientific and technical innovation and leaves US farmers and ranchers unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

Raptors and water tanks Many ranchers are familiar with making sure their livestock have access to water sources—whether that be stock tanks, overflow areas or earthen tanks. Livestock stand near a water tank. But it turns out that birds, specifically raptors, depend on these water sources, too.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the New York Times bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond documents the ascendancy of cultures living proximate to domestic livestock. Visceral connection to our ecological umbilical is foundational to immune vibrancy. The science is clear. Children with chores tend to grow up to be responsible adults.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Photo courtesy Jim Jones) While US farmers have been slower to embrace hedgerows for their ecological benefits, the science of hedgerows as natural havens has become inarguable. If a farmer wishes to contain livestock or create a more structured barrier, living fences can be cultivated in the traditional European fashion.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. Stokes’ findings were published in the journal Northwest Science in 2014.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

Discussions kicked off with Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management (EPM) specialist, providing background on the organization’s pest management research from the ‘90s, known as BIOS. And that’s why you would work with a soil lab that specifically works with composting, because the science is there.

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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.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

However, demand for this by-product of the food industry may decline in the coming years as the need for livestock feed drops due to consumers moving towards flexitarian, vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Fortunately, it has potential uses beyond just being animal feed. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

By creating tunnels, theyre also creating a thermal refuge, said Hila Shamon, the director of the Smithsonians Great Plains Science Program and principal investigator of the colony-mapping project. Researchers, however, say the effects of prairie dogs on livestock forage are mixed.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

ARS has a proven track record of delivering science-based solutions to critical agricultural challenges facing our Nation and improving the competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of U.S. ARS also plays an invaluable role in partnering with universities and industry to advance science and address emerging issues. agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

ARS has a proven track record of delivering science-based solutions to critical agricultural challenges facing our Nation and improving the competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of U.S. ARS also plays an invaluable role in partnering with universities and industry to advance science and address emerging issues. agriculture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming. For example, modelling studies suggest the adoption of silvopasture (integration of trees and livestock) on 10% of the UK’s grassland area could sequester 5.477 to 13.39 25 and 60% of the UK’s total current livestock emissions).

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. I don’t say all this proudly; I say it gratefully, and as a challenge to everyone: freedom comes from participation. Our Polyface eggs averaged 1,038.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot. The current science suggests changes to diets will also be needed, with plant-based products to the fore. By the end of last year, 19.7% Regenerative agriculture is poised to move into the mainstream faster than many people expect,” he wrote.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 10, 2024

SARE-backed initiatives have furthered stewardship of the land and its natural resources by funding research on topics such as soil health management, crop and livestock integration, soil erosion and runoff mitigation, and organic farming practices.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Operating as One CGIAR to take a cohesive, coordinated approach across all organizations in their network, they utilize research to drive science and innovation and tackle pressing global and regional challenges. This year, they were the recipient of the Pax Natura Foundation’s annual environmental prize.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Overall, the story gives a glimpse into Sarah’s and Ralph’s ecological and social consciences and how reconnecting to the land instills passion and power.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. What we do know is that the virus is now endemic in some wild birds, like wild ducks that move through our country, says Carol Cardona, a professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at University of Minnesota. In December, some 13.2 million have already died.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the 2023 Iowa Climate Statement , signed by more than 200 science faculty at 31 colleges and universities across the state, a “one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn-based ethanol” over the course of a year.

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