National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Photo credit: Vilicus Farms Farmers Are Coping with Severe Weather Many of the stories gathered by NSAC members highlight the climate impacts to which farmers are responding. For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 101

Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

CLIMATE SMART FARMER OF THE YEAR: SIERRA ORCHARDS When a small film crew arrived at Sierra Orchards last year for a video shoot on integrated crop livestock systems, the interviewer asked farmer Sean McNamara about his seed mix.

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Farming Farming Orchard Food 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A daytime sleep schedule can curb quality time spent with loved ones, as well as limit when wares can be sold or traded in local markets. Its also impacting their ability to support themselves and their families through a generations-old trade. But what the family is already doing is waking up at 5 a.m. Im very proud of that.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 73

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Dairy farmer Joseph Goni’s grandfather witnessed the 1955 deluge that flooded their farm. Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

Agwired

JANUARY 26, 2024

The IGC discusses current and prospective world grain market developments, and monitors changes in national grain policies and their market implications. IGC  IGC provides critical grain and oilseed market information and analysis to its members, promoting transparency and stability in international trade. beef cattle division.

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Grain Marketing Agriculture Agriculture 45

Caff

JULY 19, 2021

As a farming serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in 4 areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. See [link] for more information.

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Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Ecology Food Orchard Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

APRIL 10, 2024

Kelsey Keener, 36, oversees a few thousand Novogen laying hens on his 300-acre Sequatchie Cove Farm , nestled alongside the Sequatchie River at the tail end of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, about 30 miles outside of Chattanooga. Kelsey Keener at Sequatchie Cove Farm. And how can we honor others while supporting ourselves?”

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