NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

By extension, this rulemaking would provide the necessary regulatory and legal certainty to continue to support product market access for farmers, other pesticide users, and applicators.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Below the surface, these crucial ecosystems sequester carbon , drawing it out of the atmosphere where it contributes to the greenhouse gas effect. The FAO assessment adds that grassland soils have “suffered” from human activities such as intensive livestock grazing and agriculture. In terms of the assessment’s impact on U.S.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. Alongside these choices, we must collectively work to prevent the industry from using the food system as an escape hatch, a new market for oil and gas as the public demands decarbonization in other parts of the economy.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The market for grass-fed beef continues to grow. And for grass-fed and finished cows specifically, a longer lifespan equates to more total methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, released into the atmosphere. grass-fed beef sales reached $776 million in 2022. But emissions may not tell the whole story.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This reduction is comparable to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 185,641 gasoline-powered vehicles driven over the course of one year. . ● According to US EPA calculations, converting 1.3 Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5% of on-farm costs, with animal feed closely following at 15.5%.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that if farmers and ranchers continue to produce the same amount of livestock, but employ tactics used by the lowest 10 percent of greenhouse gas emitters, overall emissions from the industry could decrease by 30 percent. An assessment by the U.N. To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Bushel Boy has a Mason City operation with 17 acres of greenhouses growing different kinds of tomatoes. The upshot has been a boost to local economies.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

While the markets for these grasses are barely established, it’s one potential solution to a clear problem: In the coming years, as the effects of climate change intensify, growers in this and other coastal regions will have to farm differently. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. This rapid improvement is in stark contrast to the industrial livestock production model, which has all but reached its limits in terms of scale, reach, and efficiency.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The PCC DBII is one of four such initiatives across the country, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Today, the agricultural infrastructure of the Deltaphysical, economic, and intellectualis set up to underpin a commodity economy that intrinsically favors large farms and export markets. For the peas, which are like black-eyed peas but with purple pods and eyes, Coleman and his colleague Percy Baldwin have found a different market.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. In addition to the overall drop in US public agricultural R&D investment, organic research continues to be significantly underfunded compared to its share of the food sales market.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The resulting corn, soy, sugar beats and wheat supply insetting markets where corporate entities aim to reduce their greenhouse gas footprint. A project let by TH Cattle Company is quantifying the soil and biomass impacts of climate-smart ranching practices and rewarding livestock producers through premiums for added-value beef.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A daytime sleep schedule can curb quality time spent with loved ones, as well as limit when wares can be sold or traded in local markets. By 2050, without cuts to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions (known as the business-as-usual scenario), that portion will jump to 39 percent. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes. Residents may work or volunteer at the farm, or they may participate in a residents CSA program or visit their own farmer’s market.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Agriculture contributes at least 11 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions , and meat is the biggest contributor among foods. Livestock farmers who practice regenerative farming, improving soil and biodiversity with methods such as rotational grazing, strive to waste nothing and can still wind up with leftovers. Farm Hounds jerky.

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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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Silvopasture, or mixed trees and livestock, is one form of agroforestry.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

As a result, carbon stored in vineyard soils won’t ever add up to a meaningful reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. I do think vineyard operators are not under the same stress of harvesting kale and rushing to market five days a week, so there’s a real cushion,” Whitlow said. “It It is a rapidly growing category.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the release, the WFO claimed cultivated livestock products “are supported by marketing campaigns that enhance the myth of greater sustainability compared to agriculture” and asserted that “there is no reliable evidence to compare cell-based food to farmer-produced one.” Photography by Good Meat.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Work is underway now to develop acceptable lab grown meats for the consumer market. It reduces the need to farm and slaughter livestock. It reduces greenhouse (GHG) gas emissions. Why should that land not be in livestock production? These include: It is a “greener” alternative to traditional meat production.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wisconsin producers have always been innovative and open to exploring ways to diversify their agriculture systems, provide their products to new markets and be good stewards of the land,” says Josh Odekirk, acting state conservationist for the Wisconsin NRCS. Savanna Institute is an ideal partner to help implement this work.”

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Farming Farming Crop Production 108

Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Join the Livestock Publications Council for the November Coffee and Collaboration on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 12 p.m. Embarking on its 20th year of operation, Midan Marketing is a full-service marketing agency driven by a singular mission – to champion the value of meat. ” with John Herath, U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Through CIG, public and private grantees develop the tools, technologies, and strategies to support pioneering conservation efforts on working lands, as well as develop market-based solutions to resource challenges. Improving cover crop management in regions with specific challenges (e.g.,

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

This career field is as varied as the subject of agriculture itself is: there are dairy farmers, livestock ranchers, fruit growers, crop farmers, and organic farmers, just to name a few. Farmers are the people who grow crops and raise livestock, but they are also so much more.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Hot Farm Food and agriculture systems are responsible for roughly one third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Throughout the series, the hosts seek to cut through food marketing messaging and help parents navigate cultural expectations about nourishing their families.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. I was young, I was in my 20s.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although the design and water sustainability varies from system to system, these technologically advanced setups have the potential to grow far richer animal feed using just a fraction of the water supply, land, energy and labor needed for traditional hay crops while potentially cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cooperatives can take on many forms; like a marketing co-op, purchasing co-op, or a credit union. Marketing cooperatives help farmers sell their products more effectively by consolidating output and accessing broader markets. It takes into account international trade policies, prices, and market conditions.

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Farming Farming Marketing Agriculture 69

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” Photography by Shutterstock/Ground Photo.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

In the States, Sorghum is currently used mainly for creating biofuels and feeding livestock, but incorporating it into the American diet could have a long-lasting positive impact on our environment. is primarily turned into ethanol fuel and livestock feed—two of the most fossil-fuel intensive agricultural products. “If

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