The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

To significantly reduce the land sinking process, there needs to be a significant increase in groundwater levels. We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. I believe there is: strategic cropland repurposing.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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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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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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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The thought experiment concluded with a rough figure that each lb of moved product incurs about ⅓ of a pound of CO2 in the process. In fact, the cultivation of lettuce and other leafy greens in field settings is highly carbon-efficient when compared to more energy intensive processes like those used in many CEA facilities.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. Then, he said, Walmart started cutting the prices they’d pay for the vegetables.

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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. “Depending on how strict the USDA inspector is, it can require the farm and the processing facility to update their HACCP plan just to capture something for us.”

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is the result of rapid advances in precision biology that have allowed us to make huge strides in precision fermentation, a process that allows us to program microorganisms to produce almost any complex organic molecule. Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. greenhouse gas emissions could be fully offset by 2035.

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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. Now to have come through it, it’s been a long process,” says Boles. “It This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. Bt Farms is now in the process of planting alfalfa as a cover crop so the land can heal and be converted to organic soil, Steinhoff said. Part of the planning process is business feasibility studies and planning based on the input we get from the community.”

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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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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

This chemical process is called pyrolysis, and produces charcoal, or, biochar. Creating Biochar: Methods and Processes Biochar can be produced using specialized biochar kilns or through traditional methods like pile burning. Portuguese settlers called these Amazonian soils terra preito do indo which means Indian black earth.

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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. By some estimates, meat production accounts for nearly 60 percent of the greenhouse gasses generated by the food system, with beef as the leading culprit.

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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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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Farming Farming Farmland Greenhouse 103

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Farmland Greenhouse Crop Farming 101

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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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

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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 44m weekly audience across platforms NPR The Biden administration’s $3.1

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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. So can we involve them in this process?” He argues that it’s as safe as traditional meat.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S.

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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And it found that despite an executive order directing agencies to consider greenhouse gas emissions in procurement, another addressing consolidation , and hundreds of millions of dollars granted to small and mid-size farms and processors over the past few years, the government isn’t exactly putting its money where its mouth is.

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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. hour hearing.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

The first post details an overview of the markup process and the bill as a whole, as well as its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. That is why it is so important for the next farm bill to help farmers access affordable farmland and finance high upfront startup costs. 5102, 5109).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But in Central Ohio, a farmer recently sold 227 acres of farmland to Microsoft for $29 million. But it also has, cumulatively, released more heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than any other machine on earth. Meanwhile, the cost of land has soared. Who could say no? It wouldnt be accurate to even call it a battle.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars. From a greenhouse gas emissions perspective, the Renewable Fuel Standard has failed, says Jason Hill, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

But during a press conference Monday, Vilsack defended the process. President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting about reducing the costs of meat through increased competition in the meat processing industry in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 3, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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