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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) field day on November 30th in Clements, CA. Farmer Alicia Lewis-Rikkonen arranged a demonstration of a novel weed control technology, called FoamStream, in her olive orchard and vineyard. The demo, provided by Oscar Veloz with TurfStar Inc, and following discussion highlighted the many challenges and emerging opportunities of managing weeds organically.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Credit: Christian Wiediger on Unsplash. Editor’s Note: Many global citizens in search of a more sustainable and planet-forward lifestyle have embraced vegetarianism or veganism to decrease their individual carbon footprints. As this article states, limiting meat consumption could make an overall impact on the progression of climate change, but it is one of many available options.

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In our last post we indicated that a farmer could prepay farm cash rent for the following year by writing a check on December 31 and having the landlord receive it in 2023. This would allow the landlord to report the income in 2023. A reader then sent us the following in response: " I have a client that is the sole-shareholder in a S-Corporation that is operating a farm.

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OECD: Environment

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By: Kentaro Asai, Francesca Borgonovi and Sarah Wildi, OECD Centre for Skills In the northern hemisphere, the last summer was characterised by major climate disasters, including heat waves, droughts, flooding, and wildfires. The southern hemisphere is preparing to face similar disruptions in the coming months. Such events served as a reminder that climate change is taking place and that urgent action is required to transition to a net-zero economy.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A recap from the 2022 Farm Policy VIP Tour hosted at Preston Farm & Vineyard and put on by the Sonoma County CAFF chapter focused on water issues and small-scale and sustainable agriculture during drought. The post Farming in Drought: Notes from Sonoma County CAFF VIP Tour 2022 appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

December 6, 2022 Two leading controlled environment agriculture (CEA) services companies have announced a partnership. Agritecture, which offers CEA planning, research, and strategy services, and Greener Crop, which offers data-driven hydroponic farm management solutions, are teaming up to make it easier to launch and operate greenhouses in the United States and the six countries that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Tax Court issued a ruling on December 5 regarding an Iowa farmer. The case dealt with a part-time framer near Creston, Iowa farming about 500 acres. The farmer worked full-time as an UPS driver and did farming in the off hours. He also had incurred a heart attack in 2011 that led to perhaps the issue with the IRS. Instead of buying new tractors, the farmer elected to purchase 40-50 year tractors and place them with implements attached at each of their five farms.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Policy recommendations, priorities and resources from the Sonoma County CAFF chapter’s VIP Tour focused on water issues and drought. This document is designed for policymakers, government agencies and anyone interested in ensuring the future of small-scale family farms and diversified, regenerative local food production. The post Farming in Drought: Sonoma County Policy Recommendations appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

High-tech farming operations like Plenty’s require significant funding, often sourced from investors and venture capitalists. Credit: Produce Grower. WRITTEN BY: Ricky Stephens December 5, 2022 Just five years ago, in 2017, a little-known company named Plenty raised what was, at the time, the largest agtech investment deal to date: a $200M Series B.

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As we approach year-end, many farmers will be prepaying 2023 farm inputs before the end of 2022. These prepayments lock in lower prices (hopefully) and quantities to be used in 2023. The deduction is allowed even though the inputs have not yet been delivered to the farmer. However, in order for the deduction to be allowed, the farmer needs to follow certain rules as follows: Be on the cash method of accounting (about all farmers are on the cash method); The invoice needs to reflect a specific fa

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 8 MILLION WEBSITE READERS A MONTH 2 MILLION SOCIAL USERS A MONTH Mother Jones For the first two years of the pandemic, there was such a thing as a free lunch—for public school kids, at least. To blunt a spike in hunger caused by job losses and school closures, the federal government made school meals free, even available as “grab and go,” for virtually all children.

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