National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Leafy Greens: Low Startup Costs : Leafy greens require minimal investment in seeds and can often be grown in smaller plots or even containers. Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Traditionally, Hopi women are the seed keepers, and the art of dry farming starts with the right seeds.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When you look at the environmental degradation, like the seepage of nitrogen fertilizer into water systems, simply having the ability to know exactly how much fertilizer and water should go on the plants is the best way to avoid that.” “One of the issues that precision agriculture gets to is the overuse of inputs,” Orr says.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I Avocados or Grains?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The country has pioneered a move towards agroecology for two decades and has already seen a 4 percent improvement in rural food security. Smallholders are witnessing the recovery of the fertility and moisture levels of their soils, higher productivity and competitiveness.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In our rural high schools, almost every FFA kid grew up on a farm and was directly involved in production agriculture. When we asked why they chose the soil on the right, the answer was typically some version of “because the nutrients are dissolved in the water” or “because that powdery soil looks like it would be better to plant a seed into.”

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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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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. Michigan relies on the FDA to provide new information on GRAS products, said a spokesperson for the states Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), which issued the designation.

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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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs , more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. While rural farms can stand to plant one crop per field per season, this isnt always practical on the small scale of an urban farm.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The farm bill impact extends beyond the farm by protecting our nation’s food supply, providing access to nutrition for families facing hunger, investing in our rural communities, advancing conservation efforts and spurring innovation through agricultural research.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Women in rural areas are the labor workforce in Africa’s food system,” says Marème Niang Belko, Agronomist at CERAAS. Many women in West and Central Africa lack access to technology, quality seeds and fertilizers, agricultural infrastructure, credit, extension services, and markets.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. But soil quality, pest control, crop rotation, and fertilizers are all used to produce quality sod. And it showcases Farm Credit Mid-America’s dedication to rural communities. It was my first time on a turf farm! Sod is the farm’s star.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As more people pour into metropolises—urban populations are projected to double in the next three decades, according to the World Bank —scientists like Bousselot are investigating how designers and planners can ruralize cities, greening roofs, and empty lots. What we should probably focus on is resilience overall.” “The

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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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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We always like to remind our consumers, no matter where they live – in an urban area or a rural area – agriculture is very important to them.” She and her team also engage directly with farmers and ranchers, ensuring that government officials are in-touch with farmers and see their challenges from the field.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With fertilizer prices hitting $1,000 a ton, it’s no surprise that cover crops are a hot topic. Imperial Seeds – www.imperialseed.com Young Agrarians – www.youngagrarians.org Want to learn more? Imperial Seeds – www.imperialseed.com Young Agrarians – www.youngagrarians.org Want to learn more?

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. Clover grows aggressively at the beginning of the season, Lincoln told me, so it’s best to direct seed or transplant vegetables into the clover in late May or after (he’s in Massachusetts), when the clover growth slows and competition is reduced.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

She explains that part of her work is saving the seeds from different types of fruit, both to trade with other farmers as well as to grow into trees that she sells. There are two major threats to criolla [native] seeds today,” said Fuentes. And that is why we save seeds.” Under both of these threats, species can go extinct.

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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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As a young scientist, he helped develop wheat seeds that helped end famine and propelled India to more than triple its annual crop in just 15 years. This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. And when I was in high school, around 2009, I started a community garden on our farm called “Project: Plant a Seed.” Like what you see here? I was searching for some way to help.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2020, seed companies sold out. We’ll offer havens of protection and nourishment to lead our culture into stable families, fertile soil, nourishing food, working faith, and overall health. Many have zero rural experience, connections, or history. This new generation of homesteaders is a shot in the arm for rural communities.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JUNE 19, 2024

These pressures include human-caused deforestation and development, nearby commercial scale use of herbicides, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, diminishing fresh water resources, poaching, and the increasingly ruinous impacts of severe storms and droughts, to name a few. Mahogany seeds held by Shipstern conservation ranger.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Inflation is leading families to cut back on meals and farmers to cut back on seeds and fertilizers. And last year, WFP announced that the levels of hunger and malnutrition in Haiti reached levels never seen before. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, the World Bank reports.

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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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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. Women continue to play a very important role in food production today.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We appreciate the efforts of committee leaders to develop a farm bill and their recognition of farmers’ contributions to provide food, feed, fuel, and fiber to consumers here at home and abroad.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Agwired

MARCH 14, 2024

economy and rural communities. This strategic decision reflects AgroLiquid’s unwavering commitment to prosper the farmer, by providing liquid fertilizers closer to our customers through faster and more efficient services.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2018, the Halls have been on a mission to collaborate with local organizations to rejuvenate their land, which was previously subjected to conventional farming methods involving fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Glen: For the last seven or eight years we’ve been seeding brassicas with oats and forage peas.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

If you have a diverse pasture mix with plenty of production and do not need to apply fertilizer (nutrient cycling is running well), and no disease problems, all this may be unnecessary. Photo: Lee Rinehart, NCAT For a late spring seeding, consider buckwheat, sorghum-sudan, corn, or millet. Sorghum-sudan pasture. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. The incentives were helpful.

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