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Letter Urging Administration to Protect Crop Insurance in Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal

NASDA

Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Sen. John Boozman, Ranking Member, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Rep. Rice Producers Association USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council USA Rice Western Peanut Growers Association Cc: Sen. GT Thompson, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture Rep.

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2019 Camp Fire Water Resources Monitoring and Research Symposium

Caff

Forest Health Post Fire – Ryan Tompkins, Forestry Advisor Plumas and Sierra Counties, University of California Cooperative Extension and Kate Wilkin, Forestry and Fire Science Advsior for Butte, Placer, Nevada, Yuba, and Sutter counties, University of California Cooperative Extension.

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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer.

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Correcting the Record: The IRA Made More Money Available for All Conservation Work

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In practice, separate IRA and Farm Bill funding pools mean that farmers hoping to implement Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF) practices, conservation activities that have long been available in EQIP and CSP, will receive funding from the IRA pool created within the conservation program they apply to. Appendix Table 1.

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Precision Ag News 10/26

Agwired

Department of Agriculture (USDA) released A General Assessment of the Role of Agriculture and Forestry in the U.S. Renovo Seed debuts with an elite lineup of more than 80 proven, prebuilt seed mixes that simplify forage, cover crop and conservation seed choices.

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SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL SKILLS

The Lunatic Farmer

My content includes various starting contexts: early succession forestry, brambles and brush, or sparse vegetation. I go into forage growth principles and fertility principles from organic matter to carbonic acid and earthworms. Then I show strategic animal movement requiring control (fencing), shelter, water, and mobbing.

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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

Civil Eats

Holt, who also works as an independent permaculture consultant and a guide for the foraging tour company No Taste Like Home , says the cooperative’s members haven’t yet paid themselves from Nuttery activities. Like eating wild nuts itself, Holt says, such an approach to forestry would represent a return to older patterns of life. “I