National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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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Crop Rotation Pasture Forestry Forage 59

The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Back in May a video team spent 3 days here at Polyface filming my course titled RECLAIMING PASTURE. Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures. My content includes various starting contexts: early succession forestry, brambles and brush, or sparse vegetation.

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Pasture Fertilizer Forestry Forage 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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Pasture Crop Farming Farming 90

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Snapshot of a page of the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Mitigation Activities List In addition to reducing tillage, increasing the presence of plant matter through other means can also accomplish parallel increases in organic matter. Such changes leave the system less vulnerable to temperature extremes, droughts, and floods.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

E340C), and bundles start with a B (ex. B000CPL24). Table 1 provides a snapshot of how many CSAF conservation activities were funded through CSP contracts in FY21.

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Crop Rotation Forage Pasture Crop 83

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 104