The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future. But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops.

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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. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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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. Trees, they say, can protect farm animals from wind and sun, prevent erosion, stabilize streambanks, and yield marketable products like fruit and nuts.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

His first question: “What is different between your pastured chickens and the ones in regular industry houses?” This idea that nature has no balance, that no ecological boundaries exist, that life manipulation and re-arrangement has no limiting protocols, is endemic in food-as-machine thinking. My quick reply: “Mine don’t do drugs.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

In its place, ‘agroecology’ was more explicitly recognised as a broad moniker for a range of practices that are grounded in biological / ecological farming; this has made the term more distinct in its definition. Benton’s assertion of the need to include some ‘high-yield’ (i.e.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honorable Mention for the “Most Economically Beneficial Innovation” went to the Livestock Yield, Pricing & Margin Tool, created by Olivia Tincani & Co., Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.

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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.” But Tim observed that the rested paddock yielded twice what the neighbouring pastures did, even though they’d been managed the same for 15 years. “It

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

It has been argued that taking a lot of care of the systems which grow our food is unnecessary – in the UK many areas of East Anglia have been cropped intensively for decades and still maintain their yields. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). cattle industry. xvii] Milazzo, F.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a lot of ways, carbon farming is like organic farming—the end result is good for a lot of people and agro-ecological systems, but our societal’s economic system isn’t really structured to reward this slow path. Like soil microbes, Beulah enjoys grazing on cover crops in the wintertime. This was just last week in our resting high tunnel!

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The couple show a real passion for nature, as evidenced by the sign at the entrance of their farm which reads, “Ecology now!” Crops and Pasture’, ‘Nature’ and ‘Community’ are just some of the GFM categories in which Troed y Rhiw excels, while other areas, like those outlined above, show where there are vulnerabilities that can be addressed.

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Farming Farming Agroecology Crop 52

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Was there a significant yield drag? By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Goldthwaite The coeditors of Good Eats , both English professors and authors, have gathered a selection of creative nonfiction essays that requires “ecological thinking and a close attention to relationships, the environment, and diversity.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Improved cost-share accounting for income forgone when farmers experience losses in revenue due to production changes, anticipated reductions in yield, transitioning to an organic resource-conserving system, or acreage converted to conservation uses. Expanded definition of “conservation activities” to include mitigating GHG emissions.

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