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Investing in Farmers for Ecosystem Services: A Path to Healthy Soils

Food Tank

Farmers hold the key to restoring the worlds soils, says Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at the Ohio State University and a Goodwill Ambassador for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). People are the mirror image of the soil they live on.

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Corteva Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Technology

World Agri-Tech

While other crops like corn have exponentially benefited from hybrid technology over the years, challenges with wheat production systems have presented barriers to consistently and cost-effectively leveraging such game-changing technology – ultimately limiting the ability to deliver meaningful yield improvements.

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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. If we want good food, we need good soil.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Many tribes in Alaska are very intertribal, sharing similar foods and waterways.

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As the Climate Crisis Escalates, Here Are 18 Food and Ag Solutions

Civil Eats

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate. Can Farming With Trees Save the Food System? Climate Change Is Walloping US Farms.

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Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. Their efforts have yielded varying degrees of success. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

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Precision Ag News 9/7

Agwired

1 yield-grabbing pathogen of the soybean crop in North America. Soil health specialist Catie Geib has joined the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a 41-year-old conservation agriculture non-profit, to provide technical support to Wisconsin farmers under the Farmers for Soil Health (FSH) program.

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