Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides.

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

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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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.

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Crop Plantation Seeding Agriculture 114

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. And when nitrates are present, it’s inevitable that other contaminants, such as pesticides , are also polluting the water.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. 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

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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52