AgriLife Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Center to serve as global leader in research, communicating greenhouse gas emission impacts Nithya Rajan, Ph.D., has been named director of the Center for Greenhouse Gas Management in Agriculture and Forestry, Bryan-College Station — an organization established in February 2023 by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M University.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

Further reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the agricultural and forestry supply chain will require a comprehensive effort involving financial and technical assistance, research investments, proactive response to innovation, public-private partnerships, and a commitment to equitable opportunities for all producers. We urge the U.S.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

The post Texas A&M Board of Regents approves controlled environment agriculture greenhouse construction project in Dallas appeared first on AgriLife Today. Modern technology in new facility to help lead ‘CEA’ research across southern U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 16, 2025

Crop improvements from 19612015 resulted in less cropland expansion, lower greenhouse gas emissions and fewer extinctions. Poverty and yield effects of CGIAR maize varieties in smallholder farming systems of Zambia. Right, so what we need is more of the same? Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Farmers Weekly The link between inorganic fertiliser use in farming and greenhouse gas emissions is being highlighted in a new campaign by the Soil Association, designed to change government policy and influence consumer buying choices.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At the same time, agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis, producing one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge From the Marshes In the Mid-Atlantic, sea level rise due to climate change is already altering what farmers can grow.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unfortunately, many farming practices in Africa are based on monoculture, so if a disease or a drought hits a key growing region, the entire system suffers. Incorporating indigenous vegetables into our local farming system can disrupt this pattern. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Comment Re: Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks (Docket No. USDA-2024-0003) Dear Director Hohenstein, NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. territories.

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Global Agtech Initiative

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The post Computer Imaging For Early Detection of Greenhouse Diseases appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. Computer vision and AI are proving themselves as valuable tools in many areas of CEA, particularly for the early detection of pests and diseases.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bottom line: adding more crops to the current dominant rotation of wheat and maize increases yields and profits, sequesters more carbon in the soil and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions. Not surprisingly, lower nitrogen fertiliser results in lower emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas. million tonnes.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ho`la Farms, a small nonprofit on Hawaii Island, aims to use agriculture to help veterans rebuild a sense of purpose in their lives. Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. This is commonly regarded as the first introduction of plastic into agriculture, a move that would transform modern farming—and inadvertently deposit an untold amount of plastic in the soil. In 1948, E.M.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. In the FCIP , agents working for private companies sell and service a wide range of insurance policies to farms. of all farms with cropland, up from 25.8%

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

” The Role of Crop, Livestock, and Farmed Aquatic Intraspecific Diversity in Maintaining Ecosystem Services. Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is the final story in “The Healing Soil: Detroit’s Urban Farms,” a three-part series being co-published with Outlier Media and Planet Detroit , and is supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly The winner of this award, chosen from the finalists in the other Awards categories, is the farmer judged to have made the most positive impact on the wider environment and the sustainability of their farming activities.

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NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

Sincerely, African American Farmers of California Agribusiness Association of Iowa Agribusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Council of Arkansas Agricultural Retailers Association Alabama Soybean and Corn Growers Association Alaska Farm Bureau Almond Alliance American Agri-Women American Cotton Producers American (..)

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. The current fertilizer industry, subsidized at US$20 billion, causes 25 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, and intensive practices continue to promote their injudicious use.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 22, 2024

CFT is a globally recognized carbon quantification tool that enables growers to measure estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on their farms The post Syngenta Integrates Cool Farm Tool Into the Cropwise Sustainability Application appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MARCH 26, 2024

Next-generation technologies can radically transform indoor farms and greenhouses into prolific food sanctuaries. The post Integrating Data-Driven Solutions for Fine-Tuned Climate Control in Indoor Farming appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Farmers Weekly Plastics can be found everywhere on farm. From greenhouses, polytunnels, silage wrap, mulching, plastic reservoirs, irrigation systems to buckets and water troughs, their presence is pervasive across all agricultural sectors.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Barry Friesen remembers the days when plastic wasn’t used on farms. One of my first summer jobs was working as a farm hand on a dairy farm,” he recalls. “It But despite these figures, Friesen admits that Cleanfarms is only collecting 10 percent of the agricultural plastic used on Canadian farms.

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Farming First

MAY 9, 2024

The post Changes in Farm and Food Production Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by a Third appeared first on Farming First. A new report from the World Bank finds that affordable, readily available actions can drive progress towards net zero food systems.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 10, 2025

From greenhouses to galaxies, doctoral student Jess Atkins research could shape the future of lunar farming The post A moonshot scientists giant leap for plant-kind appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.”

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly Seed technology firm Nuseed is hoping successful UK trials of new Brassica carinata varieties over the next two years will offer growers a new combinable crop opportunity to help boost farm income and contribute to sustainability targets.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

If your farming system or your food system is causing damage, then you should be financially accountable for that damage. Our aim is to get millions of people to visit the farms where their food comes from so they recognise the story of its origin. In other words, we make the polluter pay. Its a question of show, dont tell.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Many labels that guarantee humane treatment of farm animals (e.g., Yet that’s exactly what Farm Forward’s investigation found. However, Alexandre and so many other companies that want to rehabilitate dairy farms are not small-scale; they may have thousands of animals under their care. And then there’s the halo effect.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A major research project at the University of Toronto will investigate how urban agriculture could both improve food access and capture and store carbon dioxide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MARCH 12, 2025

Launches New Product Tiers to Accelerate AI Adoption in Greenhouse Operations appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. Source.ag, the provider of AI solutions for vegetable growers, today announces the release of three new product tiers, […] The post Source.ag

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Biological nitrification inhibition trait in sorghum may allow reduced fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions The post Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to minimize nitrogen loss in crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than gifting a tangible object this year—and wrapping it, shipping it, hoping it’s something someone wants to store in their home indefinitely—opt to adopt from a farm. By adopting a piece of a farm, you can offer someone a way to connect with the land and our food system in a unique and meaningful way. Grape vines.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MAY 1, 2024

EPA's new model is designed to address previously identified shortfalls in the R&D GREET model and how it calculated lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. The new approach accounts for all emissions from farm to fuel.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. New Jersey’s farms, just to the north, have not yet seen this degree of impact, and the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Siewicki started Vital Mission Farm with the hopes of helping to create a more sustainable food industry. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first. A second mortgage and $80k in debt Siewicki found there was a lot of information out there about how to farm. But how do new farms get the first initial sale?

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Food Politics

JANUARY 16, 2024

But the study delves into a more comprehensive analysis, considering factors beyond direct greenhouse gas emissions. Agricltural Systems: Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems.

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