Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows. Across farmland in the lower parts of the province, producers dealt with the deaths of thousands of animals, including more than 630,000 chickens , while 2,500 acres of blueberries wilted.

Farming 83

Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 83

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Farmland Preservation and Farm Viability This title of the ARA addresses several means of supporting farm viability and reducing the conversion of farmland to other uses.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland. Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. But it should be.

Agriculture 82

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 82