Sustainable Food Trust
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
To others, they represent an inefficient use of land and would be much better put under forestry or bioenergy crops to help the nation meet its net zero targets. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century. more nuanced positions.
Farming Secrets
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist! Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.
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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.
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.
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.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
DECEMBER 15, 2023
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. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. million tons of offsets purchased by Microsoft in fiscal year 2021–22, for example, were tied to forestry initiatives. (A agriculture. it doesn’t work.”
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