AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Biological nitrification inhibition trait in sorghum may allow reduced fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions The post Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to minimize nitrogen loss in crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At the same time, agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis, producing one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. The EPAs annual emissions report points to declines in cattle numbers and fertilizer use, data that could inform major climate events this fall. Why Are US Agricultural Emissions Dropping?

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

From raw ingredient screening to lab, greenhouse, and field testing, Yara’s focus on quality ensures that YaraAmplix consistently meets the highest standards. One of the first featured products that Yara is bringing to customers is YaraAmplix PROCOTE OPTIMIZE , which leverages Yara’s revolutionary coating technology.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This approach is especially appealing for agronomists and farmers looking to address nutrient deficiencies proactively and adjust fertilization programs on the go. Fine-tuned nutrient management By frequently monitoring nutrient fluctuations, growers can adjust fertilization rates more effectively.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The current fertilizer industry, subsidized at US$20 billion, causes 25 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, and intensive practices continue to promote their injudicious use. Because of the loss of soil health, fertilizer response has reduced drastically.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

percent of total greenhouse gas emissions between 2021 and 2022—the sharpest drop of all sectors in 2022. Instead, while there is plenty of uncertainty, the most likely causes are fewer cattle burping methane and less fertilizer use. This coincided with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which disrupted fertilizer supply chains.

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Agwired

JANUARY 15, 2025

The interim rule establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the production of biofuel feedstock commodity crops grown in the United States. There are additional climate smart agricultural practices, including reduced tillage and fertilizer application timing.

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Agric4profits

APRIL 24, 2025

Cucumbers are frost sensitive and are cultivated in the open or in greenhouses, depending on the type. Greenhouse cucumbers are parthenocarpic (produce fruit without fertilization of ovules), and the fruit are usually seedless. The fruit has a mild… Read More » All you Need to Know About Cucumber Farming Business

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

CoteX Technologies, a startup located in Nova Scotia, Canada, has developed a low-cost, customizable controlled-release fertilizer (CRF) coating that minimizes environmental impact. Over 110 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer is applied to crops worldwide every year. Read the full press release here.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Smallholders are witnessing the recovery of the fertility and moisture levels of their soils, higher productivity and competitiveness.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For instance, farmers in the Southern region face acidic, low-fertility soils, intense weed, pest, and disease pressures, along with marketing and infrastructure constraints. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced a new Green Fertilizer Grant Program that will support agricultural and rural electric cooperatives to invest in green fertilizer manufacturing.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Loving fertilized with the ash of its stewards, the forest is cleansed of excessive pests and invasives safely for established growth to flourish. One is the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) program , part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program.

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NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Everything from silage wraps, tote drums, containers, plastic mulch, greenhouse sheeting and row covers have a use in modern-day agriculture, although much of it is single-use and not recyclable. million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags. Globally, 12.5

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Agwired

APRIL 16, 2025

Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative report that was published late last year. Those opportunities include nitrogen fertilizer management, soil carbon management, the crop production and yield gap, animal production and management, and efficient energy use.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A study by Cornell University scientists explored both dietary change and agricultural technologies as means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food-system sector. Related ATTRA resource: Climate Beneficial Practices

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

With transportation’s greenhouse gas emissions eliminated, it’s a small leap to assume that urban agriculture is a simple climate solution. Most research on urban agriculture has focused on a single type of urban farming, often high-tech projects, such as aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms. Our study, published Jan.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. It lines the sides of greenhouses, blankets fields as “plastic mulch,” covers hoop houses, and winds through farms as irrigation tubes, among other forms. In 1948, E.M. That’s the reason we’re facing such a massive issue.”

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Solutions to food security, with fertile lands and natural resources. Solutions for innovation in a youthful and energetic population with the hunger to succeed. The evidence is clear: we can’t tackle climate change without changing our food system. Tell world leaders to end factory farming – for the sake of our planet.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sturcken has been working with Walmart since 2006, and her team continues to work with the company on its Project Gigaton initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chains. I believe it called for a reduction or avoidance of 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses. So, that has embedded greenhouse gases.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

What is the main contributor to the greenhouse gas effect? What would you think if I said water vapor contributes to up to 80 % of the Greenhouse gas effect and Carbon Dioxide only 11 %?How How would you approach reducing global warming if you took the perspective that Greenhouse gases are too much of a good thing in the wrong place?

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction COMET-Planner is a web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) evaluation tool used to provide modelled estimates of the greenhouse gas impacts of certain conservation practices utilized across various agricultural landscapes. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Climate smart farming practices are named for their potential to help farms mitigate and adapt to climate change through building soil carbon, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving natural resources like water and topsoil.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

These microorganisms play a crucial role in enhancing soil fertility and promoting plant growth. Unlike chemical fertilizers, which directly provide nutrients to plants, biofertilizers work indirectly by improving soil health and nutrient availability. This contributes to overall biodiversity and ecosystem stability.

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Food Tank

MARCH 2, 2024

The International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) helps producers with the implement practices to measure and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. To speed up the shift towards a climate-friendly wine industry, IWCA raises awareness about cutting greenhouse gasses in viticulture and hosts workshops to share emission reduction strategies.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. The prominent chemical ingredient in synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is ammonia, which comes from combining hydrogen and nitrogen gases through burning fossil fuels , including coal, oil, and natural gas.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Bushel Boy has a Mason City operation with 17 acres of greenhouses growing different kinds of tomatoes. The upshot has been a boost to local economies.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural nitrate comes from fertilizers and is linked to several health conditions, including “blue baby syndrome”, miscarriages, and other conditions.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. Maine could finally force Washington to take action.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2025

STEP #3: PREPARE YOUR SOIL The key to successful gardening is rich, fertile soil. Joaqun Hernndez in his family's greenhouse, where they grow a variety of vegetables. Mara Gonzles shows her cabbage harvest proudly, with an appropriate shirt that says YUM! You can also use a soil testing kit to test if your soil is ready for planting.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food.

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

They can be used “to recycle organic waste [into fertilizer], mitigate environmental pollution, and produce rich biomass,” Chrysantus Tonga, Senior Scientist and Lead of icipe’s Insects for Food, Feed, and Other Uses Program tells Food Tank. Insects can help decrease the number of inputs typically expected in food production, Tonga says.

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