National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

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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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. In a world where we need to feed a lot more people, meat…will still be demanded and exacerbating climate change and deforestation,” Muzi said.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. With dual-use agrivoltaics, crops are grown under or between the rows of solar panels, with the aim of generating renewable energy without removing farmland from production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks. I’d imagine a lot of farmland investors want to see numbers on a spreadsheet about how to maximize yield from acreage,” he says. Graham’s chickens will help here.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97

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. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition, large concentrated animal feeding operations, which have become more prevalent there in recent years, add to the problem by disposing millions of gallons of nitrogen-rich liquid manure. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Despite the resources devoted to advancing the practice, however, only around 5 percent of U.S.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Large farms now control 42 percent of the farmland in the country. That 7 percent decline “is a larger percentage decrease than what has been seen in the last 20 years,” said NASS’s Bryan Combs. Farm numbers decreased in every size category except one: Those operating 5,000 acres or more. Then Friends of the Earth U.S.

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Farming Farming Acre Food 144

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Poop covered the streets.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52