Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Instead, while there is plenty of uncertainty, the most likely causes are fewer cattle burping methane and less fertilizer use. Concentrated feedlot cattle farming and fertilizer production are among the biggest drivers of emissions from agriculture. Corn is the main driver of nitrogen fertilizer use,” said Lilliston.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Learn from Expert Speakers: Will Groeneveld , has grain farmed in the Mannville area for 40 years. Since 2018, he has included perennial forages, grain intercrops and summer & winter grazing in an effort to improve both his soil and farm resiliency. Why Attend? Let’s cultivate a future of sustainable farming together!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. There are several dedicated rural partnership investments with the potential to dramatically increase support for regional food enterprises.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Letter Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned agricultural organizations are deeply invested in the well-being of our rural and agricultural communities, and we write today to urge you to prioritize and support the swift passage of a bipartisan farm bill this year.

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NASDA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sincerely, Agribusiness Association of Iowa Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Council of Arkansas Agricultural Retailers Association AmericanHort American Farm Bureau Federation American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association Animal Health Institute California Specialty Crops Council Corn Refiners Association CropLife America (..)

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Blackland Cotton & Grain Producers Association Bongards’ Creameries California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association California Association of Wheat Growers California Citrus Mutual California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association California Dairies, Inc.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Year-end inventories of major grains, oilseeds, poultry and dairy products are projected to increase in 2024. agricultural exports are slowing down, and a record trade deficit is projected for 2023. The financial imbalance is equally impactful for specialty and perishable crops.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

These are small businesses in rural communities. It has saved our farm a couple of times because it’s allowed us to implement programs and conservation that have allowed us to cut inputs like herbicides and fertilizers and things. The NRCS in Arkansas, we depend on it.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Banners are hung, grain samples are on display, and a voice over a megaphone invites the crowd’s attention. This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. Pearl millet is a small, round grain that feeds vast swaths of sub-Saharan Africa.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 46 million jobs across the country. production of ingredients such as fertilizers, vitamins, and chemicals to maintain U.S. food and agriculture industries contributed $2.61 trillion in total economic output.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? The money to sustain the rural environment.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

As above, it is likely that some rural communities will be classified as disadvantaged through the CEJST. A Midwest farm-supply and grain cooperative is exploring the feasibility of installing a solar grid using underutilized space at its facilities to switch the company’s energy use from fossil fuels to renewables. In conclusion, U.S.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

It also improves soil’s fertility, its structure for conveying nutrients and capacity to retain water. Photo credit: Jess Giacobbe) A nybody who is interested—urban, suburban or rural gardeners and farmers or any land stewards—can participate in Carbon Sponge. Which I think is an interesting question unto itself,” says Singer.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. We are female; we are male.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. In Iowa, unconventional farming—growing crops aside from industrial grain—ranges from soybeans grown and made into tofu near Iowa City to an environmentally-minded O’Brien County farmer who went organic decades ago. In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

CoBank quarterly report indicates challenges and opportunities for farm and rural sectors The combination of high interest rates and a strong U.S. A new report from CoBank dives deeper into this market as well as other commodities and rural industries. economy, it’s a double whammy for rural America.” Rice production in the U.S

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Or you do what grain farmer Blake Vince did, and bury a pair of “tighty whities” (underwear) in the soil to produce proof of the existence of this vast and diverse soil microbial community. Welcome to Stories of Regeneration, a podcast series brought to you by Rural Routes to Climate Solutions and Regeneration Canada. And hungry too.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

In this article, we outline the impact of rising property taxes on agriculture and explain ways rural landowners can reduce their tax burden. More people were moving to Rural America than moving out. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In fact, women represent a mere 20% of landholders worldwide and rural women are paid up to 40% less than their male counterparts. But if given the same opportunities and recognition as men, rural women could radically improve their communities and our world.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) announced the election of Brian Duncan, a grain and livestock farmer from Polo, Ogle County, as the organization’s 16th president, and Evan Hultine, a grain farmer from Princeton, Bureau County, as vice president. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” Because corn requires nitrogen fertilizer to grow, Manske is concerned that further consolidation of the fertilizer industry will drive his input prices up more.

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

startup companies developing innovative solutions to challenges faced by America’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities. This recognition from The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) marks a significant milestone as PrimAgro C-Tech becomes the inaugural product to receive such acclaim.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 The Regenerative Ag Alliance processing team.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. Cooperatives contribute to the development of rural communities. turning grain into flour or milk into cheese), which may face different tariff structures or allow for premium pricing.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops. When we can introduce cattle to that grain land, it really makes a big improvement,” explains Rod. “It

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

It has a stranglehold on the American agriculturalist right now, which leads to a stranglehold on all of rural America. “In being asked, ‘What’s the overall condition of our business today?’ ’ I’d sum it up with one word: that’s questionable. Simply, the big banks would not touch us right now.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. It’s not just manure causing (groundwater contamination) problems, it’s also fertilizer. “So That’s where all the fertility comes from.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

It started with a post-war boom of generous government subsidies favoring overproduction , which coupled with advances in hybrid crops and synthetic inputs, meant farmers focused on just a select few staple grain crops. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. Grain prices began to fall and crops weren’t worth what farmers put into them.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Holistic land management that builds diversity of crops and livestock , adds perennials in the form of agroforestry and deep-rooted perennial grasses like grains, keeps the soil covered and living roots in the ground , and integrates livestock into the landscape all represent highly effective climate and agriculture solutions.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 This “leaky system” refers to what is not absorbed by the crops on the field, most dangerously, in this case, fertilizer. “It’s Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. ppm for nitrates.

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