Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

The SDGs need proper long-term financing , say Prof. Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. Because there are is so much interesting stuff here, I’ll leave this on the front page for a few days before relegating it to the sidebar in due course as usual.

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Food Tank

MAY 10, 2024

Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin have been named the 2024 World Food Prize Laureates for their work in establishing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Known as the doomsday vault, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is home to more than 1 million seed samples, with space for 4.5 million varieties. million varieties.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

She is also the co-founder and owner of Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, Bertie County Seeds retail shop, and Quitsna Conniot ancestral gardens with Justin Fix Rahakwhstha Cain, who is Tuscarora (Skaroreh Katenuaka). Her approach is that new conservation, finance, opportunities that are directly accessible to tribes should be decided upon.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Reducing the use of harmful and synthetic inputs and fostering farmer-led seed systems offer good entry points for countries to introduce ecological and agroecological practices, proposed Fegert. Agroecology offers a powerful pathway towards achieving biodiversity, climate, and food security goals simultaneously.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Researchers have found that when agroecology is combined with the right type of seed, it improves the resilience of crops, increases soil carbon and produces healthy and nutritious food combined with social justice and inclusion for rural populations. However, the country needs to scale-up agroecology and help farmers to make the transition.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 14, 2023

Marbleseed has launched a new two-part audio series, In Her Boots: Breaking Ground , that follows a journey for farmland financing with farmers Dria Price and Halima Salazar and their diversified farming operation, Mint-More farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 31, 2024

For example, members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), which was launched by the then Prince of Wales in 2020 and includes banks, asset managers, insurance companies and water companies, are now partnering with food companies and retailers to co-finance new initiatives that reward farmers for delivering on climate, nature and health.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Many women in West and Central Africa lack access to technology, quality seeds and fertilizers, agricultural infrastructure, credit, extension services, and markets. “But most of them are analphabetic, or have a very low level of education, and constraints to time management.” Find out the entry points of women’s empowerment.”

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Finance Food Agriculture Agriculture 119

Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

For example, let's say that the seeds that you could find easily before are harder to find and much more expensive now. You might decide to raise the seed yourself the next year and sell locally. high-quality meat, milk production, adaptability to climate, rare breed seeds, etc.) Where will you keep track of your finances?

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

As a lender that works exclusively in the agriculture space, AgAmerica has helped hundreds of farmers strengthen their finances. In farming, input costs typically include items like seeds, fertilizer, feed, and more. Lower Overhead Costs There are several strategies farmers can use to lower overhead costs.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Health Check Calculator Farm Cash Flow Statements: Key Terminology There are many different terms and documents for farm financing strategies. It categorizes cash flows into three main activities: operating, investing, and financing. To finance this capital expenditure, the farm drew $4,500 from a Line of Credit (LOC).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

Farmers deal with a complex web of processes in diverse areas that may be under their purvue, including crops, livestock, finance, recordkeeping, harvesting, marketing, etc. As farmers, we probably ask ourselves this question often, when we are confronted with the many challenges that arise within our agribusiness operations.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In addition to income, Schedule F requires farmers to report their expenses, such as feed, fertilizer, seed, rent, and labor costs. Monitoring and valuing these assets accurately helps determine the net worth of the farm and the collateral available for securing loans or financing future investments.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Golden Harvest GHX Seed The GHX app from Golden Harvest is helping farmers to better understand crop health in their fields throughout the entire season. We’ve made some exciting advancements in the app this year. There is also a guest version of the app for farmers to try it out, even if they aren’t Golden Harvest customers.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Seeds sales were $3.2 Sales for the third quarter 2024 were $6.8 billion, flat compared to the prior year period. Syngenta Crop Protection sales were 16 percent lower at $9.5 billion in the first nine months of 2024. billion in the first nine months of 2024, down two percent year-on-year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Back then, my mother, encouraged by a local retired clergyman, took me into a cow shed on a small dairy farm near Epping Upland in Essex and planted a seed which has remained with me ever since. I remember loving the atmosphere and the smell of the cow byre and thinking – I’d like to milk cows!

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It had giant combines, chemicals stored in one-ton plastic tanks, and a 12-row planter drilling rice seeds into a field by an oxbow lake. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds. But most of her rice grains are sold as seed to other farmers. Shoffner grows 20 varieties of specialty rice.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

These restaurants, with menus rooted in game dishes, heirloom seeds, and wild plants, would fit within a broader Native movement that acknowledges the contributions of Indigenous peoples, educates the public, transcends colonial borders, and promotes understanding about the biodiversity existing alongside cultures.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny. And the world of precision farming methods, like GPS and sensors, save water, use fewer chemicals, and enhance crop yields with less environmental harm. Tractors require capital to purchase, rent, or borrow.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

AgReliant Genetics has announced senior leadership changes to position the company for long-term success, while continuing to have a seed-only focus delivering high-performing hybrids for farmers. Brian Barker has been named the chief executive officer and president of AgReliant Genetics, effective August 31.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) provides loans to farmers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial sources.

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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. What are your company’s recent key milestones? and internationally.

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Agwired

AUGUST 21, 2024

Founded in 1958, MACA has been a cornerstone in the crop protection industry, bringing together manufacturers, distributors, formulators, warehousers, and seed companies to inform and educate members on policy issues, create educational opportunities, and advance agricultural practices across the Midwest.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Dr. Samuel Crowell, Senior Director, International Programs and Policy for the American Seed Trade Association , was appointed to serve on one of seven agricultural trade advisory committees (ATACs). Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Early bird pricing ends August 15.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Existing investors Entrée Capital, Jesselson, and Peregrine Ventures also participated in the financing round. “The combination of Bluewhite’s unique autonomous technology and incredible team have led the company to rise above the pack, and we’re thrilled to be working with them as they move into this next critical phase.”

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Agwired

MAY 22, 2024

The six-week virtual program is hosted and coordinated by America’s Cultivation Corridor , providing participants a unique experience featuring mentorship, interaction with Iowa’s agricultural leaders and an online curriculum that included regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Improve Rural Prosperity: This priority drives us to improve the prosperity of low-income and under-served farmers by improving their access to inputs, knowledge, finance and markets.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Having good seed won’t help you if your entire farm gets flooded,” says Sara Scherr, President and CEO of EcoAgriculture Partners. At the Future Economy Forum Pavilion, experts came together for a great conversation on making sure that food system financing aligns with climate goals. LIVESTREAM HERE!

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Over six weeks, the curriculum covers the full seed-to-market process including access to financing, food safety and building a business plan around a farming operation. Along with teaching agronomics, soil health and sustainable farming practices, AiSA places a big emphasis on developing an agriculture-related enterprise.

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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. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

JULY 12, 2023

For example, a farmer who needs funding to purchase seed and fertilizer for the upcoming planting season may only require a one-year loan, while a farmer who needs to make larger investments in equipment or land may prefer a longer loan term.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) is providing a $998,784 Seeding Solutions grant to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) to quantify how adopting soil health practices can reduce the need for nitrogen inputs without sacrificing yield.

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Pesticide Science Supply Chain Technology 45

Hartwood Farm

MARCH 12, 2020

The greenhouse is up and humming, high tunnel planting started, and we are seeding up a storm, because that’s what farmers do. We worry about the cracks showing in our fragile health care system and the household finances affected by the economy. All the flats cleaned and ready to start seeding in!

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Like most VF facilities globally who are unable to independently cover their finances, AeroFarm’s large-scale R&D facility received significant support from ADIO. A large seed breeder asked why there was such a significant focus on equipment and technology if the biggest difference will be made through genetics.

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Agwired

AUGUST 23, 2023

The six-week virtual program is hosted and coordinated by America’s Cultivation Corridor , providing participants a unique experience featuring mentorship, interaction with Iowa’s agricultural leaders and an online curriculum that included regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives.

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