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. AMSP’s director, Roger Kaboré, explains that prioritizing the crop’s yield was a priority largely held by the men, who had historically been considered the primary decision makers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else.

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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. She wants to invest in rather than impose on or extract from soil. “If

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development for Mexico, shared insight into the current landscape of agriculture in Mexico. Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has already made significant strides in this direction through initiatives like its Fertilizer Program.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). Rural communities are vital to US agriculture, since they are home to most of the land under cultivation and provide much of the workforce for the agriculture sector.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. You saw people coming back, to buy land and buy houses, and wanting to live in more rural communities and have that quality of life and sense of connection and sense of community,” said Giselle Bruskewitz of Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development.

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RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find. This podcast has been partially funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada The post EP 77 – Healthy Food, Healthy Environment – SoR Part 9 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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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. Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. in March 2022. Craig “Dr.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Darker soils, better water infiltration, less fertilizer. I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

and Australia—from the flooded rice fields of the Mississippi Delta to the vast tracts of high-yielding corn in the Midwest—by placing the farmland in a limited liability corporation, or LLC. .” AcreTrader streamlines the process of investing in valuable farmland across the U.S. food system. The post JD Vance Funded AcreTrader.

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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. I’ve gone on far too long in this response, but I’ll close by saying: I understand the challenges of rural communities and small and midsized farming because I’ve lived them.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While these breeding programs furthered the base of scientific knowledge around plant breeding and led to significant increases in yields, farmers were slowly pushed out of their historical role as the primary stakeholders in seed saving and development. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With a bigger staff and a new executive director, they also educate the community, create quality natural fertilizers, and take compost to a new level, all while remaining human-powered. Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 tonnes per year, not zero.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist When I began to see how unique the growing conditions in my high tunnel are compared to open-field growing, I started to think differently about how to maintain soil health and manage soil fertility for high tunnel growing and season extension. These strategies start with soil testing.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

By: Florence Reed , Founder + Director of Sustainable Harvest International With the war in Ukraine, the global food crisis looms large, given that Ukraine is a major global exporter of both wheat and chemical fertilizers. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

For instance, precision ag data can help farmers apply fertilizers and pesticides more accurately, leading to better crop health and reduced input costs. Learn how this Southeast farmer reduced food waste from 30 percent to less than 10 percent with strategic agricultural technology investment through AgAmerica.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

potato can also reduce the environmental impact of the growing process without as many fertilizers and pesticides needed to maintain the potato during storage. Nemasphere is the first and only biotechnology trait for SCN, the number one yield-robbing pest in soybeans in the United States.

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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. As research and reporting began to call significant attention to the company’s negative effects on rural economies and the environment , Harold Lee Scott, Jr.,

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

The repeated application of biochar over many years turned these nutrient-poor soils into fertile agricultural land. Sonoma county encompasses many environments: wet and foggy coastal redwoods, agriculturally fertile valleys, interior coast range oak woodland, densely populated cities, rural communities, and thriving tribal groups.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alternatively, when farmers adopt sustainable practices, they experience higher yields as a direct result of caring for natural resources. Family farmers are the backbone of rural communities. Many farmers initially learn conventional methods that degrade the soil with harsh chemicals and deforestation.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Fittingly, then, my recent trip to South Africa yielded two fascinating additions in the energy and sewage department. With its abundant sunshine, I assumed lots of rural folks would be investing in solar panels to make up for the rolling blackouts. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost.

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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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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

The full report is available online at fapri.missouri.edu, but here are some key results: If weather conditions allow crop yields to return to trend-line levels in 2023, prices for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and many other crops are likely to fall.

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Agwired

MARCH 14, 2024

economy and rural communities. Newly released third-party data from the 2023 growing season is showcasing unprecedented yield increases in row and specialty crops across the United States. AgroLiquid announces the upcoming construction of a new 48,355-square-foot production facility in Lake City, Florida.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

ICT has facilitated digital lending platforms that assess farmers’ creditworthiness using alternative data sources, such as past yield records and mobile transaction histories. Additionally, AI-driven yield prediction models help farmers estimate production volumes.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

When arranged in the right way, studies have found this approach can actually offer compounding advantages such as shielding plants from excessive heat, cold and UV damage, thereby increasing the yield of certain crops. Some reduction in yield is still better than growing nothing," he argued. Photo is by Thomas Hickey.

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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. Our cover crop cocktail has resulted in an immense reduction in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.

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ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

sinensis: This variation of the tea plant typically yields milder flavors of green or white tea. Once you have your plants in the field, you’ll need to give them regular pruning and fertilization to ensure they grow well and produce optimal yields. sinensis and Camellia sinensis var. Camellia sinensis var.

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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. Marketing cooperatives help farmers sell their products more effectively by consolidating output and accessing broader markets.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Installing one or more of these climate-smart practices can be costly at first but they should pay for themselves over time through decreased inputs needed, e.g., fertilizer, livestock hay and feed, reseeding, and increased plant yield due to better soil function. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

potash, or K on the periodic table), but the farmers would go ahead and apply potassium anyway because they saw increased yields when they did. One example: Arkansas farmers would do their soil tests, and often the test results would come back saying there was adequate potassium (a.k.a. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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 We can’t go out there and not get the yields.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Chickasaw Nation is teaming up with area land managers to remove invasive species, reduce fertilizer use, and restore habitat. Rising pest pressure, wildfire smoke, and drought are also concerns–already in 2020 and 2021 wheat and barley declined in yield as a result of droughts. At the same time, cold nights have declined.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411).

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