Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; Today, the agricultural infrastructure of the Deltaphysical, economic, and intellectualis set up to underpin a commodity economy that intrinsically favors large farms and export markets. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

While the markets for these grasses are barely established, it’s one potential solution to a clear problem: In the coming years, as the effects of climate change intensify, growers in this and other coastal regions will have to farm differently. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction COMET-Planner is a web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) evaluation tool used to provide modelled estimates of the greenhouse gas impacts of certain conservation practices utilized across various agricultural landscapes. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres. The organization works with growers and food hubs in eastern and central Iowa counties.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Yesterday, the agency took a big step toward refining its definition of that term by announcing a major initiative intended to improve the data it uses to guide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and make farms more resilient to climate change.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens.

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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. By 2050, without cuts to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions (known as the business-as-usual scenario), that portion will jump to 39 percent. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. The other hurdle is marketing. When you have a contract, you don’t need to market your product, because you only have one buyer.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. As a result, carbon stored in vineyard soils won’t ever add up to a meaningful reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. “Soil carbon sequestration is one indicator that we’re on the right track.”

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

And now we’re in 2024, we have market failure conditions for agriculture. And there’s a low tolerance at the institutional level for recognizing those market failure conditions. The old market analysis says “the bigger the better.” Ardeo was matched to farmland through the B.C. Land Matching Program in 2020.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Modern foods have already started disrupting the ground meat market, but once cost parity is reached, we believe in 2021-23, adoption will tip and accelerate exponentially. In some markets, only a small percentage of the ingredients need to be replaced for an entire product to be disrupted. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It’s also home base for Sakari-employed chefs like Pao Rodriguez, who cook up fare such as buffalo empanadas, huckleberry pie, and blue corn cookies to be sold at farmers’ markets. They can learn how to grow and harvest traditional foods, make their own recipes in the incubator kitchen, and market and sell their products.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. The organization focuses on Illinois and Wisconsin but also does support work in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

The testimonies presented during the hearing underscored the profound economic pressures and mental health strains experienced by farmers nationwide, which directly impact their ability to secure and maintain farmland. 3955) would provide essential funding for programs aimed at expanding access to affordable farmland for young farmers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Another big factor is end of life.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Midwestern corn and soybean growers earned more than $140,000 in 2023 for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased soil carbon through implementing regenerative agriculture practices. These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Agriculture contributes at least 11 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions , and meat is the biggest contributor among foods. Where items like muscle meat and organs have a route to human markets, Farm Hounds looks for trim, miscuts and excess volume. Here is how a few companies are dishing up new models. Farm Hounds jerky.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. And with increased attention on agricultural practices are increased market opportunities for agribusinesses and grain growers. The emerging market for sustainably grown grain is a good example. Cover crops are a good example of this.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

My previous post was focused on the carbon footprint of crop transportation from the lettuce production regions on the West Coast of the US to East Coast Markets. of the American Farmland Trust. This study includes an analysis of nearly 200,000 acres of California lettuce farmland that is analyzed using two separate analytical tools.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Any surplus can then be bought and sold via trading scheme markets. A carbon offset tends to refer to credits being traded on a voluntary market where companies – and individuals – can buy into carbon offsetting schemes to compensate for their emissions. These markets can be voluntary or compliance based.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Organic farms have been shown to have lower net greenhouse gas emissions than conventional farms, and California’s climate scoping plan includes a target of 20 percent of the state’s farmland under organic cultivation by 2045. agriculture by the year 2040. agriculture by the year 2040.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Conspiracy Theories and an Ongoing Culture War Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have shown that livestock accounts for anywhere between 11 and 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from land use and cow burps. This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. agriculture toward more diverse landscapes that directly reduce greenhouse gasses and increase agrobiodiversity. All of these policies help to shift U.S.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He notes that farmers are then subject to the whims of a global market, which tends to skyrocket in price during geopolitical conflicts. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

The bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. Rule 1071 rule is pro-farmer,” and “pre-market”. hour hearing.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. I was young, I was in my 20s.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. The intent is to avoid a high-density housing development, but the number of units, breakdown between single- and multifamily, and mix of low-cost and market-rate housing is undetermined, Steinhoff said. Her father still runs a farm and the South Madison Farmers’ Market.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. Height of nimbleness?

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. It doesn’t help that endophyte-free fescue — the one that fails in the winter — remains on the market.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. The emerging market for climate-friendly products, he added, represents “a transformational opportunity for U.S. agriculture.”

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