UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 25, 2024

At Spirit of the Sun , Native American youth are not only learning about traditional ecological knowledge , they’re also empowered to do the teaching. After moving to Denver in 2021, Hemingway found a reconnection to place upon attending a Spirit of the Sun workshop about plant relationships and seed keeping.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

“Whatever little bit of land you have, no matter how small it is, is this amazing opportunity to really help these creatures thrive,” says Deb Landau, director of ecological management for The Nature Conservancy Maryland/DC chapter. full_link READ MORE Learn how to prepare your yard for pollinators. Don’t leave them in the jar overnight.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As a young scientist, he helped develop wheat seeds that helped end famine and propelled India to more than triple its annual crop in just 15 years. This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The grant, which will provide funding through June 2028, will help the college to enhance its current culinary, horticulture and science curriculum with new classwork that will explore sustainable food production and safety practices, waste management and agribusiness. “We director of the Agriculture Science program.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. Obtaining the reliably productive, inexpensive kelp seed for the farm is another. coasts—and could help fight climate change.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science—and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. In China and Korea, where seaweed farming first developed into a larger industry, governments provide kelp seed to farmers for free or at a subsidized cost.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. 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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be. 7110, 7113, 7213). 7201, 7202, 7203).

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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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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

There are still a lot of questions that science is working out—like how exactly the whole process works and what sort of impact different soil microbes have, but there does seem to be potential in carbon farming for helping mitigate climate change. More soil organic matter can hold on to more carbon in the soil, which keeps it out of the air.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Through its Seeds for Resilience project, Crop Trust aims to strengthen national gene banks across sub-Saharan Africa, helping local farmers access diverse, climate-resilient crops. Every seed is important. Theres nothing more meaningful than planting a seed and watching it grow, says Waters.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There, she’s using her vast ecological expertise to develop curriculum for the Indigenous Food Lab training center and lead community engagement programming. “As She mixes Indigenous traditional knowledge with modern science in a way that feels practical yet fun.” When we build community, we know who has the seeds.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

2 million social users reached The Nation On a warm August afternoon in 2019, University of Minnesota professor Crystal Ng, along with a handful of environmental science colleagues and students, launched a flotilla of kayaks and canoes down a slow-moving river in northern Wisconsin. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 1.3

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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 10, 2024

In addition, this project will establish a “community science” training program through partnerships with regional community colleges and high schools to increase producer participation in research and education, ensure the scientific rigor of farmers’ observations, and share science-based extension.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To become good stewards of the planet, we need to connect with our ‘climate emotions’—because that’s how we move from grief and anxiety toward a sense of purpose and thriving, says science writer Britt Wray.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods by Chris Smaje In Saying NO to a Farm Free Future, farmer and academic Chris Smaje presents an argument in defense of small-scale farming. fishing and hunting culture. What if CAFOs Were History?:

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems. Agroecology has evolved to include ecological, sociocultural, technological, economic, and political aspects of food systems. How do you envision agriculture’s role in shaping our future?

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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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Processing berry pulp, from beak to butt, takes about 15 minutes, though, contrary to popular belief, most holly seeds do not depart through droppings. During a feeding frenzy, robins can regurgitate holly seeds more than 150 feet from the source. Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. For one thing, friendly fescue, formally known as “novel endophyte fescue,” costs twice as much as the toxic variety — $4 for a pound of seed versus $2. There aren’t good numbers on adoption rates because seed companies are guarded about how much they sell.

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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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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning.

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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. They can hear sounds.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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Caff

APRIL 17, 2025

For the field day, attendees observed six treatments of cover crop seed mixes in both a young and mature block of walnuts. A fourth-generation farm, Machado Family Farms started about 80 years ago with sheep, row crops, and orchards. Today they grow walnuts, almonds, cherries and olives.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. 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.

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