National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

Agriculture 89

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 89

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. In addition, large concentrated animal feeding operations, which have become more prevalent there in recent years, add to the problem by disposing millions of gallons of nitrogen-rich liquid manure.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost.

Compost 91

Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5

Poultry 98

Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Holistic land management that builds diversity of crops and livestock , adds perennials in the form of agroforestry and deep-rooted perennial grasses like grains, keeps the soil covered and living roots in the ground , and integrates livestock into the landscape all represent highly effective climate and agriculture solutions.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We

Ranching 143

Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The impact that the drought is having on pasture is forcing the culling of cattle and reducing the cattle herd.” As a result, farmers have had to make hard choices to prevent the overgrazing of this limited green pasture. And this year, the most influential group in American agriculture has been pointing to big strides made.

Agriculture 139

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Cattle 139

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.

Ruralism 110

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. Poop covered the streets.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98