Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 11, 2025

ISSA put together and looks after the National Collection of Heritage Apple Trees on its organic farm near Clare. The winning apple juice celebrates the diversity of the orchard and serves as a reminder both of the history of Irelands apples and ISSAs commitment to sustainability.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly My first full-time job was on a training scheme with one of the large corporate farming businesses. The orchards were radiant with flowers and buzzing with pollinators. Fettling with some hail nets on one stunning spring morning, we stopped for a cuppa amid the apple blossom.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 22, 2024

In New York, orchard growers are being incentivized to save pollinators.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As the sun beats down from a cloudless morning sky across Horn Farm in York, Pennsylvania, Dick Bono ambles among his pawpaw trees, admiring their pale green fruits like a proud parent. When they planted their orchard 11 years ago, the gatherings turned into a festival, which soon outgrew anything they could manage themselves.

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USDA Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

They labor every day in fruit orchards and dairy farms, in blazing heat and freezing cold, to ensure that families have food on their tables. Farmworkers make up less than one percent of all U.S. wage and salary workers, but they are vital to the country’s agriculture.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A research team from The University of Texas at El Paso will be exploring how pecan farms in Texas and Mexico are being affected by climate change.

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Food and Farming Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a partnership with Heilongjiang Huida Technology Co., a Chinese manufacturer of agricultural drones, Mexican dealer ORBITECH will be deploying HUIDA TECH's HD540Pro agricultural drone to the

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Global Agtech Initiative

APRIL 6, 2024

Orchard Robotics has a bold vision to transform the future of farming and bring digitization and automation to farms. The post Orchard Robotics Gains $3.8M to Build Robots and AI to Power Precision Crop Management appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. Farmers Franz and Emma introduce Heartwood Farms.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 6, 2025

This conversation includes how Guy found his way to farming in the Ozarks, the many failures that guided him toward success, and like most conversations with Guy, contains many wonderful, circuitous meanderings. Guy is deeply knowledgeable about his area of expertise, fruit trees, and is also a font of wisdom about how to live the good life.

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 8, 2024

In crop production, crops are domesticated plants that we grow on our farms, orchards and gardens. These crops vary in their climatic, nutritional requirements

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 29, 2025

Hailee Hein has grown her orchard to 600 trees on a farm near Spickard, Mo.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Investing in community farming projects can revitalise degraded lands. Those farming project don’t have to involve orphan crops , but it wouldn’t hurt. Maybe there should be more genebanks for wild food species , but these cool in situ conservation stories will do for now.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though most people view the small insects as little more than a nuisance, colonies of them are being deployed in orchards across a handful of countries to stave off the spread of crippling infestation and disease. Instead of chemicals, an army of ants may march right in.

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Food and Farming Technology

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New Zealand-based agritech company Robotics Plus has launched Prospr, an autonomous, multi-use, hybrid vehicle designed to carry out a variety of orchard and vineyard crop tasks more efficiently and s

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been busy the past several weeks setting up the Biologically Integrated Orchards Systems (BIOS) project at six demonstration sites located in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. The BIOS project is underway! “ Why take cover crop samples? “ Why take cover crop samples?”,

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AGRIVI

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Although many farmers use some kind of digital solution or application that helps them track and record their farm operations, still most of them record everything manually, don’t know how to efficiently plan their farm operations and monitor executed work, track cost for each production part, etc.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Want to find out more about the benefits and tradeoffs of integrating sheep into orchard systems? Check out our newest case study on Sierra Orchards of Winters, CA. The post Integrating Sheep into Walnuts: a case study on Sierra Orchards appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers. Learn more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo credit: Matt Ryan/Sandra Wayman Editor’s Note: This blog post is a guest post authored by Gordon Merrick, Senior Policy and Programs Manager at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and Mark Schonbeck, Research Associate, also at OFRF, which is an NSAC member. Managing the farm as a system to reduce reliance on inputs.

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USDA Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

For many American farms, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. The Robison and Stennes family orchards combined equal more than 200 years of growing apples in Washington.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Grown in the Community, For the Community The Oneida Nation Apple Orchard is located on 34 acres, just outside of Oneida, Wisconsin. Orchard manager Heather Jordan works year-round to care for 4,443 apple trees, 120 chickens, and three beehives.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The first Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) event on “Impacts of Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) in Walnuts” was held in Linden at the Anderson-Barngrover Ranch on Friday August 27th. Around 30 people joined in on celebrating and learning from the past, and sharing emerging solutions and challenges.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

.); Jayson Berryhill , Wholechain; Jay Bhatt , The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; Joseph Brinkley , Bonterra Organic Estates; Pat Brown , Impossible Foods; Sweta Chakraborty , We Don’t Have Time; Joi Chevalier , Austin Travis County Food Policy Board, The Cooks Nook; Chaz Daughtry , Sweetwater Farms, Soulfitgrill Seasonings; Maj.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Two hundred years ago, many of these hillsides were timbered for orchards. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. Rather than a typical farm, the mountaintop looks unkempt, uninhabited, overgrown. Wherever people go, they reshape the land, and on this mountain its no different.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

They are destined for greatness in the form of chocolate bars, dried beans and tea at Lavaloha Chocolate Farm in Hilo. The other 60 percent is produced across seven farms four owned and three managed by Puna Chocolate Co. From seed to orchard, the cacao growing process can take up to two years. And we grow a lot. Daeus Bencomo.

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American Farmland

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Working in Partnership for Healthier Pastures and Orchards appeared first on American Farmland Trust. This content is password protected.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The University of California and The Organic Center are collaborating on research to help organic orchard growers safely incorporate livestock grazing into their farming practices. The project is funded by a $2 million grant recently awarded through the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

(Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Chinchiolo Farms on April 20th. After a very wet winter, attendees enjoyed the nice weather as they gathered in the orchard to discuss a novel mower prototype, pruning, and nematode management.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Mixtures of grasses such as ryegrass, timothy, brome, fescue, Bermuda grass, and orchard grass are commonly used for hay. Orchard Grass Orchard grass has a nutrient content with high fiber, protein, and calorie content when compared to timothy. Orchard grass has a crude protein content of 8-13%, 0.26% calcium.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced that it is awarding $3 million for three projects through the Biologically Integrated Farming Systems (BIFS) grant program. The third project seeks to reduce pyrethroid insecticide use in nut orchards through watershed-wide use of pheromone mating disruption for key pests.

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Caff

JULY 25, 2022

In continuing to promote the Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) project, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) held its third field day event hosted at Unruh Farms located in Princeton, CA., Daniel Unruh is a 2006 transplant from South Dakota and has been farming the land surrounding his home since 2010.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

However, based on current air quality monitoring data, much of California—and notably all of the most intensively farmed counties including San Joaquin Valley—will likely not meet the newly updated standard anytime soon. According to the 2018 emission inventory , farm operations were estimated to generate 13 tons of direct PM2.5

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Caff

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted our second Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) field day at River Garden Farms on November 30th, 2021 titled “Cover Cropping, Sanitation and Mating Disruption in Walnuts.” At this farm, cover crops increased spider mite predators near the end of August.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 26, 2023

Let’s explore the different types of irrigation available for farms. Farmers commonly use sprinkler irrigation for row crops, orchards, and pasture irrigation. Not all farms, fields, and crops can take advantage of irrigation systems. Farms appeared first on The Farmer's Daughter USA. What is irrigation?

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” This has led land-strapped farmers to either drop out of farming or become tenant farmers, operating farms on rented land.

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