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. Because of that, growers are always playing a guessing game about how much they will be able to sell and the price they will fetch versus the basic cost of harvest.

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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. Microgreens at Kupu Place. Photography by author.

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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. Some Farmers Are Skipping Tomatoes and Eggplants. Their Reasons May Surprise You.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Welch also provides tips on best shopping and harvesting practices to help eaters start cutting waste even before they reach the kitchen. 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.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here. Controlled Environment Agriculture A CEA farm growing tomatoes.

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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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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Things like automatic windows in the greenhouse are lifesavers. A good rotation plan will have several different categories of plants: legumes, grains/cereals, root vegetables, and leafy greens/herbs. As they decompose after harvest, they release this stored nitrogen back into the soil for other crops to use in their growth cycle.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

They work on farms, in fields and greenhouses, around livestock, with plants, soil and water. They often work in laboratories or greenhouses where they conduct experiments on plants and animals. Farmers are the people who grow crops and raise livestock, but they are also so much more.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Although proponents argue that a shift to lab-grown practices can dramatically lower greenhouse gasses, as well as reduce both land and water usage, some detractors claim that cultured meat may actually be worse for the environment than the real thing. He believes there will always be a market for animal-harvested meat done right.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. Height of nimbleness?

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DTN

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It provides incentives for the agriculture sector to increase sustainable farming practices; it is poised to reduce biofuel and ethanol production costs while increasing profit margins; and helps lower greenhouse gas emissions across multiple sectors. A third party, such as a grain marketer can help source sustainable grains.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 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. You have this balance of grains to special vegetables.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. That’s many millions of tons of grain.” But as the hype for cover crops mounts, so does the scrutiny.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The previous evening, when I had closed up the greenhouse for the night, there had been a perfect row of beautiful young pepper plants just getting ready to flower. An easy way for farmers to do this is by allowing wildlife access to recently harvested or mowed fields.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Fighting climate change Greenhouse gas emissions, which result from high levels of atmospheric carbon, are a critical cause of climate change. The nutritious grain from Africa possesses numerous agronomic and sustainable properties that can help soil store carbon.

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Agribusiness Blog

MAY 1, 2024

To qualify for the current credit, the SAF must have a minimum reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 50% when compared to production of petroleum-based jet fuel. 01 for every percentage point increase in greenhouse gas emissions reduction percentage until the credit is maximized at $1.75 Do not harvest cover crops for seed.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Carbon markets were first created decades ago as a means for companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by paying to reduce emissions somewhere else. It’s not worth my time,” said Josh Manske, who manages commodity grain fields in Iowa and Southern Minnesota. Everybody’s getting a huge cut, and we’re left with the pennies.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

And the perks go far beyond the pastures, Brillinger says: “We get cleaner air and water, healthier communities, and a huge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions” through carbon sequestration. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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