Food Tank

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reports people can be exposed to PFAS through a number of everyday activities—from drinking water to eating food that contains or has been in contact with PFAS, or through the many household products that contain these chemicals. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Critics of on-farm conservation are rightly concerned that it may only serve to increase the abundance of relatively common farmland species, instead of the threatened, fragmentation-sensitive species we are so worried about. Given that heat stress could cost global meat and dairy production over $14.9

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

of Arizona will seek to improve soil health across 12,000 acres of commercial farmland in Texas to enhance quality of life and economic return for farmers. Texas A&M AgriLife Research, MyLand Company Inc. Research efforts over the.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MAY 24, 2024

The Missouri Agricultural Stewardship Award provides a greater opportunity for us to tell those stories and figuratively open the farm gate to let people know about the science, technology and innovation that’s happening on Missouri farms and ranches.” Deadline for applications to be submitted or postmarked is June 30, 2024.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. Solar power may be the answer to the world’s future energy needs. That alone is a pragmatic goal.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Strengthening the land—and the people who steward it—is central to creating a more resilient and nourishing future, farmers and food system leaders said during a Climate Week NYC event convened by Food Tank and the American Farmland Trust. But, as panelists discussed, the U.S.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wyman Meinzer — state photographer of Texas — will keynote the joint 2024 Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and Southern Weed Science Society (SWSS) meeting January 22-25, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. Click here to register for both VISION and WiAT.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

A 2020 paper in the National Academy of Sciences’ journal found that over half of the 600 CWRs identified in the study were either endangered or threatened. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. Images CC-licensed, from Botanical Sciences 95(3):345 ).

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits , worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland. “I The biggest benefit of hedgerows is providing wildlife and biodiversity on farmlands,” explains Long.

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SILT

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership. SILT has already preserved 1,200 acres on 16 farms.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

JULY 25, 2024

There is no doubt that there was very hot weather during that time in the central US, and a lot of that can be linked to land use changes caused by misuse of farmland as well as some shifts in ocean […] Read More Many one-day high temperature records were set in the 1930s in the United States.

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Agwired

JULY 28, 2023

For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. Verdesian Life Sciences announced Clare Doyle as its new Chief Executive Officer. Celebrate marketing excellence by submitting your nominations for the NAMA Professional Development Awards by August 1.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

These occurrences in urban areas are scary, but heat stress can affect birds in more rural spaces, too, and farmland is no exception. Trees adjacent to farmland can provide critical canopy to wild birds. It can allow birds to access a little bit of that extra water that seeps from your land,” says Lauck.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Hard truth: we have to use farmland differently Strategic cropland repurposing is the change in land use from an economic activity that produces negative side effects (such as harming people’s health and the environment) to new land uses that produce positive side effects. I believe there is: strategic cropland repurposing.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

We can’t survey everywhere,” says Regan Smyth, vice-president of conservation and science for NatureServe, “which makes a lot of things hard to know.” A report by The American Farmland Trust has concluded that managed agricultural land can support both food production and wildlife.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Climate variability has an undeniable role in setting the scene, says Giuseppe Torri, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. states have standards for panel height and shading.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

All registrants to Groundswell should watch the webinar so that attendees may be working with information that is current and accurate based on the science available to us now. A pre-webinar on the topic of ethanol was held to provide some baseline information from a variety of experts with different perspectives on ethanol.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Blocked from buying their own farms, most tenants had little recourse, with the land passing into the hands of investment and building companies.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Raised concrete beds laid with 2 feet of compost successfully transformed the vacant lot into farmland. The farm has also created a learning garden to teach residents the science of gardening. I didn’t have the science, but I had the skills and the labor. It’s kind of like landscaping,’” Morgan recalls. It’s pretty nice.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. From my brothers, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and especially my parents, I learned the science and arts of agriculture. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. To care for it.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(Photo courtesy Schreiner) “We have created a template for a tribal farm, which operates very differently than a standard non-Native farm,” explains Schreiner, who has a background in natural resource management, soil science, and water conservation. “We

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

is the single most-asked question I hear as someone working daily with water science, advocacy, and policy in California. The increased volume of water may cause rivers, dams, and levees to overflow, inundating nearby communities and farmland. “Is California still in a drought?” Snow Water Equivalent in California Sierra Nevada.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

The latest science highlights a range of genetic mishaps that can happen when we engineer living organisms, like gene insertions and deletions that we never intended. What could go wrong when we genetically engineer them? Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. And BASF sells a 2.0

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2023

In a way, it’s amazing we have as many salmon around as we do,” says Peter Moyle, associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis and a distinguished professor emeritus in the university’s Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. Juvenile Chinook salmon.

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Agritecture Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Market, user preferences, Industry, Policy, Technology, Science and Culture) for niche innovations (e.g., They can complement rather than replace conventional agriculture by supplying fresh produce to urban areas with limited access to farmland and reducing the carbon footprint associated with long-distance transportation.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

American Farmland Trust (AFT) released a white paper summarizing the climate benefits associated with agricultural conservation easements. Designed for hands-free efficiency, Large Square Baler Automation maximizes throughput and delivers consistent, high-quality bales regardless of operator experience level. Yanmar Agribusiness Co.,

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. He attended the program without a background in science, but it didn’t take him long to feel comfortable behind a microscope. The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you are a scientist interested in doing more to support BIPOC farmers and the farm bill, I encourage you to join our UCS Action Network or our Science Network and reach out to me to hear about what you can do at the local level to influence this critical legislation. Remember: don’t panic; organize.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine shared her experience seeing how speculative investment in agricultural land has increased farmland values and made it really challenging to find affordable land. Earlier this year, a nearby parcel that would have been ideal to expand Christine’s operation became available.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas. That’s hard,” said Amanda Wickman, program director of the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education based at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.

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