Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. In Egypt, along the Nile, such deposits once gave rise to a great civilization.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

Civil Eats

MAY 5, 2025

In addition to boosting field productivity, the changes helped cut the farms reliance on synthetic fertilizers. Yet even with diversification, soaring fertilizer costs have whittled away his slim margins. Were now producing about 80 percent of our fertilizer needs on-farm, Danbom says.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), calories consumed come from ultra-processed foods. and various production technologies.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Lime is used in both agricultural and industrial processes, including wastewater treatment and sugar beet processing. Its much more complex than that.

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Ranching Fertilizer Processing Agriculture 74

National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. This program has the potential to help next generation farmers build and access credit, but has never been funded in the farm bill process. Invests in local meat processing. Invests at least $25 million per year in local meat processing.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And it reduces the climate and environmental footprint of growing, processing, and transporting industrially farmed animal food. Smallholders are witnessing the recovery of the fertility and moisture levels of their soils, higher productivity and competitiveness.

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Industrial Agriculture Agroecology Food Agriculture 144

Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2024

In modern agricultural practices, mycorrhizal fungi are increasingly recognized for their role in enhancing plant health and soil fertility. Enhancing Phosphorus Uptake Phosphorus is a critical nutrient for plants, integral to various biological processes including energy transfer, photosynthesis, and cell signaling.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Working in an industry that covers all Oklahomans means Arthur collaborates with division directors on a wide range of issues from wildfire management to seed and fertilizer regulation to policy issues. We really work to do a lot of listening here so that we can try to improve processes and improve the way that government works.

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Cultivation Food Agriculture Agriculture 162

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Cattle Livestock Processing Production 96

Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While plants require only small amounts of molybdenum, its presence is crucial for several enzymatic processes, particularly those involved in nitrogen metabolism. This process is particularly crucial in leguminous crops such as soybeans, peas, and alfalfa, which heavily rely on molybdenum for efficient nitrogen fixation.

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Crop Fertilizer Mechanics Seeding 98

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. It’s an exponential improvement with the potential to deliver high-performance and reliable in-field nitrogen production.

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Fertilizer Seeding Mechanics Technology 52

Cropaia

MARCH 14, 2023

It is teeming with a wide variety of organisms, each playing a unique role in maintaining soil health and fertility. Improving soil fertility Bacteria and fungi are two of the most abundant groups of soil organisms. This might result in reduced soil fertility and productivity.

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Soil Compaction Fertilizer Mechanics Processing 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Kerston, however, insists that bad practices such as using synthetic fertilizer consistently show up in the data. “If

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 98

Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The approach allows them to lower their carbon footprints, earn extra revenue, and tap into methane digesters’ other benefits, which include the creation of organic fertilizers, also called “digestates,” for use on the farm. The fertilizer produced by the co-digester is stored in the tank behind it. Photo by Meg Wilcox.

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Manure Food Compost Fertilizer 81

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

The covering serves as both a protective layer against predators and adverse weather conditions, as well as a defense mechanism against some insecticides. This process allows them to rapidly multiply in favorable conditions without the need for mating. As they mature, the nymphs undergo several molts before reaching adulthood.

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Ecology Orchard Pruning Fertilizer 98

Caff

JULY 19, 2023

the Lopes provided a great demonstration of the unique equipment involved in the establishment of the rice (rice flat tray machine) and the transplanter machine (used to mechanically transplant the rice plugs into the field) allowing the attendees a great visual of the process and commitment involved in establishing their rice paddy fields.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ecology 52

Cropaia

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Sludge disposal is a crucial aspect of wastewater treatmen t, as it involves the safe and sustainable management of the solid byproducts produced during the treatment process. Sludge is the solid byproduct that is produced during the wastewater treatment process. What is sludge?

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. Consequently, Black farmers in the early 20th century lagged behind their White counterparts in agricultural mechanization.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 109

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Absent a centralized certificate authority and a singular database, all data are verified through consensus mechanisms, or rules and protocols that validate each transaction, which reduces the risk of cyberattacks and insider fraud.

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Supply Chain Cultivation Technology Harvester 133

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Mulching is the process of covering the earth around a plant with something to help it grow. There are no consistently accessible mechanisms for sustainably disposing of plastic mulch film at the end of its life. The benefits include trapping heat for faster growth, retaining fertilizer and suppressing weeds.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 98

Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

The Problem Although not all fire fallout is toxic, the impacts on livestock and crops from wildfire ash containing contaminants from household products, vehicles, fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, plastics, electrical systems, etc. Designated Containment Areas Keep pesticides/fertilizers, etc.

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Food Livestock Pesticide Crop 52

Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

It doesn’t provide a mechanism for individual farmers to become tax exempt from property taxes on their farmland. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land. for every dollar they spent.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Farmland 59

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

The covering serves as both a protective layer against predators and adverse weather conditions, as well as a defense mechanism against some insecticides. This process allows them to rapidly multiply in favorable conditions without the need for mating. As they mature, the nymphs undergo several molts before reaching adulthood.

Ecology 52

Ecology Orchard Pruning Fertilizer 52

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Black farmers have been subject to other systematic barriers such as longer processing times for operation loan applications and higher loan default rates, and they have been denied access to information and resources. Consequently, Black farmers in the early 20th century lagged behind their White counterparts in agricultural mechanization.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Others want to use kelp to reduce emissions by replacing carbon-intensive materials like soy, fertilizers, plastic, and petroleum with seaweed-derived versions.

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Science Harvester Harvest Harvesting 52

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Poor grazing practices and tillage were the main causes of land degradation historically and mechanized agriculture has greatly increased the rate of erosion from cropland over the past century. These interventions do not repair broken ecosystem processes, they just treat the symptoms. Land degradation is as severe as ever.

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Ranching Mechanics Technology Pesticide 98

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It is important to note that the plants will produce far less root exudates if they are being fed routinely with applied fertilizers and manures. There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. If the soil microbes are not fed, then they (i.e.,

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Manure Soil Compaction Crop Mechanics 119

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Once wastewater passes through a treatment plant, the substance left over has commonly been applied to agricultural fields as fertilizer. Fortunately, there are some mechanisms for farm recovery. It’s a long and slow process, but, she says, the impact is hugely important.

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Manufacturing Food Science Cattle 124

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes. Crops take time to grow.

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Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. It’s a powerful pitch.

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Enforcement waned over time and in 2019, almost a century later, just four companies processed 85 percent of beef, 67 percent of pork, 53 percent of chicken, and 55 percent of turkey. The CCC is the mandatory funding mechanism for many federal agricultural programs.

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Supply Chain Poultry Livestock Agriculture 115

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

Given the volume of data—the original folder contained more than 400,000 files, hundreds of gigabytes—the process would take a long time, especially over the slow internet connection at his home in Tallahassee. Mechanical harvesters cut sugar cane in the U.S. So he let the upload run while he left town for a wedding. Two companies—U.S.

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Science Construction Real Estate Acre 98

UnderstandingAg

MAY 20, 2025

By: Chuck Schembre Historically, we have been greatly miseducated about plant nutrition by universities and fertilize sales companies. They are often the missing link in plant nutrition and are not well understood in most fertility programs. It is standard in my work to always fertilizer with a biostimulant.

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Orchard Compost Production Fertilizer 81

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They don't show any pictures of their planting crew, picking crew, processing facilities. Life is not mechanical. Food is biological, not mechanical. Our microbiome is fundamentally biological, not mechanical. The most significant difference between biology and mechanics is that one lives and one doesn't.

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Mechanics Tractor Food Fertilizer 103