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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal.

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. And that waste is kept in manure lagoons that are built to leak, according to Adam Voskuil, a staff attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

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. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. The budding industry has raised $3.1

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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

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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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

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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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Civil Eats

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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