Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Everything from silage wraps, tote drums, containers, plastic mulch, greenhouse sheeting and row covers have a use in modern-day agriculture, although much of it is single-use and not recyclable. David McDaniel is co-founder of Maine’s Greenhouse Plastic Recycling Program. Globally, 12.5

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Food Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

For example long-distance transport, temperature and number of storage days can lead to a loss of vitamins and minerals , and high consumption of ultra-processed foods is linked to increased cardiovascular diseases as well as greenhouse gas emissions. But governance, economic, and cultural barriers keep them from being implemented.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Specialty Crop Farms Are Less Likely to Be Covered Farms that grow specialty crops – fruits, vegetables, and horticulture products – are much less likely to have crop insurance than farms that produce oilseeds and grains – corn, soy, wheat, sorghum, barley, rice, canola, sunflowers, dry edible beans, and dry edible peas.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. Rice growing in one of the Lundberg Family Farms test greenhouses. While rice can grow well in a paddy, especially compared to other cereal grains , there is a limit to how much water the plant can bear and for how long.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

But now, people outside the industry are paying attention to how crops are grown, as an increasing number of food companies, grain buyers, and consumers seek ingredients grown using sustainable practices. And with increased attention on agricultural practices are increased market opportunities for agribusinesses and grain growers.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

What is the main contributor to the greenhouse gas effect? What would you think if I said water vapor contributes to up to 80 % of the Greenhouse gas effect and Carbon Dioxide only 11 %?How How would you approach reducing global warming if you took the perspective that Greenhouse gases are too much of a good thing in the wrong place?

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses. Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt? farm landscape.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In Iowa, unconventional farming—growing crops aside from industrial grain—ranges from soybeans grown and made into tofu near Iowa City to an environmentally-minded O’Brien County farmer who went organic decades ago. Bushel Boy has a Mason City operation with 17 acres of greenhouses growing different kinds of tomatoes.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. While he did lose some of his grain sorghum, or milo, to the drought, the loss was minimal compared to corn. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, researchers utilize the long-term farming systems trials at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service station in Beltsville, MD , to address nutrients, weeds, soil health, greenhouse gas mitigation, and net economic returns in organic field crop rotations.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The use of land for grazing cattle, as opposed to more productive crops or carbon-sequestering forests and prairies, is a key issue for critics of the beef industry—and grass-fed cows require more land than those finished in grain in feedlots. But emissions may not tell the whole story.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food. Transportation contributes around 27 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions. “I The farm uses renewable energy for its water system and brooder, which keeps the baby ducks warm.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. He showed me the stacks of donated piping that hes going to set up in a greenhouse so he can grow food hydroponically, year-round and free from pests. They come to him.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

percent of its greenhouse gas emissions on food that never gets eaten, as well as an estimated 16 percent of US cropland and 22 percent of its freshwater use. Gunders says produce gets a lot of the focus, but that there are also wasted eggs, meat, dairy and commodity grains. percent of American households were food insecure in 2022.

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Food Tank

APRIL 15, 2024

Their complete rice, quinoa and lentil bowls include ingredients like brewer’s spent grains, fruit and vegetable pulp from juice factories, and cereal residue from plant-based milk factories for added nutrition and flavor. pounds of greenhouse gas, and saves 102 gallons of water. pounds of waste diverted from landfills, reduces 2.23

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 8, 2024

." Secretary Vilsack announced the first climate-smart certified product available to consumers: long grain white rice. The rice was grown using climate-smart practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60-95% and reduce water use by at least 33%.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A new report from pan-European collective EIT Food, exclusively shown to AFN , notes that while this is certainly true, there is also an increasing amount of greenhouse production in rural and semi-rural settings. Greenhouses and even hoop houses have long been considered part of the CEA landscape.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

There are many benefits to container farming that make it an attractive alternative to vertical or greenhouse farming. Emiliano and his team opened their doors in July of 2022, and are experimenting with growing niche crops such as amaranth , a high-protein ancient grain. Credit: Charleston Business Journal.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. What we are working on now is the breakdown method.” It is levels that would melt our skin.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, Scully and her colleagues write, “We choose to call these ‘unnatural disasters’ because they are driven by the increase in greenhouse gases generated by human activities. Moreover, if greenhouse gases are not reduced, extreme weather will continue to cause crop loss, and inflation could rise as much as 3.3

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hydroponic fodder, young tender grass grown from cereal grains in indoor systems, can grow animal feed using up to 98 percent less water than it would take to grow a comparable amount of calories in a field. Hydroponic fodder systems sow soaked grains, such as wheat or rye, into trays that are automatically watered.

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ATTRA

JUNE 25, 2024

AgMission , a global initiative co-founded by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) to unlock agriculture’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has partnered with PepsiCo to award three grants to researchers in Australia, Mexico and Canada, for a total combined $6.7

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of their operations.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. “We have never written an agreement or signed documents; no money has ever changed hands,” says Scanes-Wolfe. “We

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

His narrative helps readers understand the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food’s journey and recommends in-season, local alternatives to many common, high-carbon food choices. From essays to plant-based cookbooks, there’s something here for every reader to curl up with.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While farmers like Fischer are avid proponents of the need to address greenhouse gas emissions, others may be less certain about that need. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These ingredients are endlessly diverse, including spent grains from beer production, ripe fruit that is too small for supermarket standards and cacao pulp from the process of making chocolate bars, but they share a similar origin story. percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 22 percent of all freshwater use in the US.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

Globally, according to a 2022 United Nations report, food loss and waste account for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Globally, according to a 2022 United Nations report, food loss and waste account for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Not all food is wasted equally.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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