UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

Poor water quality has been a persistent challenge in agriculture, particularly due to sediment and nutrient loss from farmland. There are some restrictions on timing and amount of manure and/or nitrogen application in some locations, but enforcement is minimal and the 4Rs are voluntary. That brings us to in-field management.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many farmers are able to spread manure on their cropland over many years. This excess fertility has value when you purchase farmland and the value of the “excess” is allowed to be deducted, usually over about 3 years. All land has a normal amount of fertility in it when purchased.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers. There needs to be a plan for every acre of farmland in Iowa and how its nutrients will be managed, as well as every animal and its manure.” “You’re

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Better Soils, Better Lives is helping heal soils among smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa with green manure and cover cropping, and the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils is working across the African continent to build nutritious food production through soil health. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade.

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

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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. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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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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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. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

But the farms have an overall smaller footprint, because the added chicken manure boosts the productivity of the hazelnuts and other companion crops, without synthetic fertilizer. .” The chickens in that system eat more grain than chickens raised solely in a barn because they move around much more.

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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. Then, we planted green manures and cover crops to help build up the topsoil again, which had been pretty depleted over the years. It was literally cooking.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And most importantly, the cows leave behind manure and help us fertilize the land. The beauty of it is that they’re feeding themselves.

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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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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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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. Matters are much the same in the US. In 1987, that figure was 15 percent.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers. It may be that in such situations, no-till does bring advantages over ploughing.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. To be sure such ground truthing occurs, NSAC advocates dedicating a minimum amount or percentage of RCPP funds for the purpose of supporting State and Tribal Soil Health Programs.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system. The project will reduce the feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system that prevents the liquids and solids from separating. But their equity goals tend to be fuzzy.

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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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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sir Albert Howard, who developed the scientific aerobic composting method and brought it to the world in his iconic 1943 book, An Agricultural Testament , wrote “Artificial manures [that’s what he called chemical fertilizer] lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals, and finally to artificial men and women.”

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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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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025. billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops. According to the USDA, more than 21,000 farms and 5.2 Bidens USDA also invested $2.2

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