Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Farm income, yields and food availability have all increased tremendously since the inception of the Farm Bill in 1933, in line with its original intent. This has led to crop insurance programs and a host of other safety nets, which aim to protect producers from market instability and variations in yields and production.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

It uses natural methods to promote soil health, control pests, and maintain biodiversity while yielding high-quality fruits. Organic apples farming prioritizes ecological balance. Organic apples farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing apples without synthetic chemicals.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Setting clear, measurable goals helps you develop a strategic plan, prioritize investments, and make informed decisions to maximize your land's potential while preserving its ecological balance. Is there historical yield information? Takeaways: Identify the type of farming you want to pursue (crop, livestock, mixed). Is it fenced?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

More efficient watering, in other words, could mean healthier crops and higher yields, but an increase in overall water use. “So Indigenous agriculture relies on an approach to land that is grounded in time-tested, abiding ecological principles rather than technical innovation. “We

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The report lays out 47 concrete actions that agriculture businesses can take to restore Earth’s ecological balance— while maintaining a positive return-on-investment. A recent report from McKinsey finds that agriculture has the single largest impact on the environment of any economic sector.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. In order to preserve the cooperative and the future of the families it supports, Garibaldi strives to be “socially fair, ecologically correct, economically viable and culturally diverse,” according to their website. Martinique Rhum J.M

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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. Last summer, for instance, the organization’s mycelium-inoculated foodscapes demonstration garden yielded more than 1,000 pounds of produce for the elder food share program.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else. However, when you divide a large number (i.e., The result?

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the world of woolly aphids, exploring their behavior, lifecycle, ecological impact, specific control methods, and additional preventive measures to effectively manage and protect our green spaces. Infestations on fruit trees can lead to reduced fruit quality and yield. inches in length.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brewer chose to participate in the EDF/IAC study because it will yield quantitative data about both those costs—including financial investments and loan terms—as well as the benefits of investing in regenerative practices, such as profitability, soil health improvement, forage quality, and livestock growth.

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program. Emily Ayala, CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program Manager, kicked off the event by introducing CAFF and highlighting CAFF’s many different program areas. After the demo, James spoke to some other issues he is facing in his orchard.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The researchers concluded that mulch films, which account for 50% of plastic use in agriculture, enhance crop yields and reduce the ecological footprint of agriculture. However, nanoparticles of plastic that persist in the soil can result in declining yields and may enter the food chain.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 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. By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Its much more complex than that.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

A 2022 study of organic farming in India found “that there is no short-term yield penalty when adopting ZBNF in small scale farming systems compared to conventional and organic alternatives.” As the name implies, this is a no-cost system relying on ecological processes to produce the same yields as more expensive conventional systems.

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DTN

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By integrating real-time weather data and predictive modeling, DTN empowers shipping companies to make informed decisions that yield economic efficiency and environmental responsibility benefits. The factors at play Navigating the open sea involves dealing with clear and, sometimes, competing challenges. These aren’t new considerations.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). You could grow sugarcane without irrigation in the wet areas of Hawaii, but you had lower sunlight, so you got lower yields.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 1, 2024

Have you ever read a book that didn’t yield a $100 idea? He’s worked in half the countries on the planet throughout his lifetime and knows how to get you water where it’s scarce; how to get you trees where you need them; how to integrate design and ecology to move your landscape to a new level of efficiency and productivity.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

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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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Where are we in the ecological succession? Trees exist in a different ecological succession stage than pioneering stage plants, also known as weeds. Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. I did my graduate work in cotton.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. The more water you put on a crop, the more yield you get. We have the water, so why would you want to go back?’”

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This surprisingly delicious fruit has a variety of health benefits, and planting it at home can yield an abundance of rewards. Environmental Benefits of Planting Tuna Fruit Planting this fruit at home comes with several ecological benefits that contribute to a healthier environment. What are the benefits of Tuna Fruit?

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Its farming practices also help re-establish a vital ecological role: The irrigated ponds absorb floodwater and filter sediment flowing to the sea while the crops create wildlife habitat and curb invasive plant growth. Building a balanced system Currently, the 50 acres of fields yield approximately 600 pounds of taro a week.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

This is an ecological win-win,” says Trushenski. Walker appreciates sustainability and historic novelty—and leverages both to market and tell the story of his trout—but he’s more concerned with the quality of product the method yields. Meanwhile, more farm-raised trout on the market means less extractionary pressure on local streams.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

In March, I got to participate in a two-day workshop with the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation teaching private landowners pile burning for ecological health. Enhanced Crop Yields: In nutrient-poor soils, biochar application can increase crop yields. Site of the pile burning, Shone Farm, Santa Rosa Junior College.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. Fittingly, then, my recent trip to South Africa yielded two fascinating additions in the energy and sewage department. Couple that with anti-ecology and you have a recipe for dysfunction. Who needs knick-knacks?

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the world of woolly aphids, exploring their behavior, lifecycle, ecological impact, specific control methods, and additional preventive measures to effectively manage and protect our green spaces. Infestations on fruit trees can lead to reduced fruit quality and yield. inches in length.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. Riggins, M.

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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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Caff

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management Specialist, started by welcoming attendees and sharing the history of the BIOS project which began in the 1990s and restarted in 2020. People came from all over Northern California to learn about the work being done in walnut orchards, many returning after the first BIOS field day.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Shade from the solar panels is significantly reducing blueberry yield. We see enormous potential to both keep land in agricultural production but also to achieve these kinds of ecological benefits,” Robertson-DuBois said. The technology is there, he said, but there are two main challenges.

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 5, 2024

At the end of the hot summer’s day, my work had yielded a small jar of mint-infused water known as a hydrosol and just a few drops of essential oil. Unlike distilling liquor, distilling essential oil for personal use is legal. But like the moonshiners before me, I, too, was trying to capture lighting in a bottle.

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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. From a conservation point of view, they are higher up on the agenda.” A hedgelaying workshop hosted by the Ontario Skills Network.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example. (Photo courtesy of WWCC) The school, which is located in Washington State’s premier wine region, boasts one of the few agroecology-focused bachelor’s of applied science (BAS) degrees in the country.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Women pastoralists in particular are entirely left out of these policy spaces, said Rabari, which isnt just an issue of exclusion but means their unique ecological knowledge is lost, too.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

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. Just like it takes awhile to know whether your parenting skills yielded kids that don’t go to jail. Folks, cancer is a fast growth. Nobody knows.

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