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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Given the extreme weather that farmers and ranchers are experiencing nationwide, the farm bill should preserve the original intent of the IRA by reallocating funding only to those conservation programs that have the greatest potential to help farmers mitigate climate change right now. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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Conservation tradition

Todays Farmer Magazine

Britt Farms is a true success story of conservation across multi­ple generations, and they are eager to adopt and share new conser­vation technologies,” said Scott Edwards, state conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Ryan works with his two sisters to preserve the family farm for future generations.

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

Modern Farmer

Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land. Payne’s family farm is a microcosm of American agriculture’s monocrop past and its changing future.

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Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?

Daily Yonder

However, it is not at all clear that the crop insurance policies disproportionately favor large-scale agribusiness, and indeed nearly all of the political rhetoric around crop insurance is routinely (and generally sincerely) framed around a narrative of saving the “family farm.”

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. NSAC sees this as a commendable use of RCPP and we fully support the inclusion of this purpose in a final farm bill.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Over the past 20 years, aided by leaps in technology, botanists have uncovered plant behaviors that challenge our very idea of what a plant is.

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