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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. For Trisha, sustainability means “freedom to really farm how we should be farming,” including being freed from the volatile cost of inputs like synthetic fertilizers. We don’t have to hire multiple people to run the farm.

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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands

Sustainable Food Trust

Temporary grasslands, in the form of fertility-building leys, play a key role in more environmentally sustainable arable systems that don’t rely on costly, fossil fuel-dependent agrichemicals. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century.

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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained

Modern Farmer

Pasture-raised”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Livestock are Dying in the Heat. This Little-Known Farming Method Offers a Solution

Modern Farmer

Above those temperatures, heat stress causes cattle to produce less milk and decreases their fertility. Payne’s family farm is a microcosm of American agriculture’s monocrop past and its changing future. His family was hardly alone in doing so: Along with cattle, corn and soybeans make up the top three farm products in the U.S.,

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. The approaches that my grandfather took to manage the land, and the way my parents turned a portion of it into a homestead, allowed me to watch it go from pasture to forest,” says Crombie. “My

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