Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas. And it’s not just the manure, he adds—cows also burp 220 pounds of methane annually.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

That proposition has been markedly influenced by similar state policies including California’s Converting Our Waste Sustainably (COWS) Act, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through pasture-based manure management. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Seeking a way out of the conundrum, my Indian partner, Hanwant Singh Rathore, and I set up a social enterprise called Camel Charisma that aims at linking herders to markets and thereby supporting the conservation of camels – and not just camels, but the whole culture and knowledge system in which they are embedded.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Bunning & Sons Ltd, a UK-based leader in manure spreader manufacturing. This partnership integrates Bunning spreaders into the comprehensive Vermeer lineup serving North American hay, forage and livestock producers. Vermeer has forged an alliance with G.T. Rivulis Pte.

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Manufacturing Technology Tractor Supply Chain 45

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. Today, Jenna and Thomas are in the process of rebuilding the market vegetable and herb garden, while focusing on restoring health and vitality back into the compacted hayfield.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Glen: For the last seven or eight years we’ve been seeding brassicas with oats and forage peas. The foraging peas are a nitrogen fixer in the soil, and the oats have lots of sugars for feeding the soil biology for ensuring healthy biodiversity of the soil. Absolutely. The beauty of it is that they’re feeding themselves.

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Prescribed grazing, for example, including forms such as management intensive rotational grazing that allow for short-duration presence of livestock on a given part of the landscape, can improve the quality of forage and increase the presence of native perennial plants.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

The PSR is focused on reducing and preventing biological contamination on produce, but doesn’t enforce specific requirements for chemical or physical contamination, other than requiring that food in market channels to not be adulterated or contaminated. Biological Pathogens may include bacteria, parasites, and viruses.

Food 52

Food Livestock Pesticide Crop 52

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145