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. Dodon is not certified organic and still applies pesticides when needed, especially fungicides, which East Coast vineyards often rely on due to a much more humid climate than California’s.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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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. To note: Hemp contains only.3

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Agwired

JULY 25, 2024

This year, increased funds were available because of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which is funding CIG projects that address climate change, with a particular focus on innovative solutions to reduce livestock emissions of enteric methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The department awarded $1.72

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. By properly managing grazing intensity, pastureland can maintain healthy vegetation cover and provide adequate forage for livestock. Lastly, not tilling can also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

The Alternative Manure Management Program ( AMMP ) that reduces methane emissions on dairy and livestock operations includes no funding at all for 2023-24. Organic systems are shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon while also eliminating the use of fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Without access to financial resources, it can be difficult for smallholder farmers to invest in the equipment and inputs they need to grow crops and raise livestock. They can also recommend the most appropriate pesticides and fertilizers to apply. One of the key challenges faced by smallholder farmers is lack of access to credit.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland. Here in the U.S.,

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

The latter is where Dimbleby focuses the second half of the book, unpacking the land-sharing versus land-sparing debate, as well as the conflicting positions on natural capital, carbon sequestration and crucially, the role of livestock. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Today, industrial farming methods are heavily dependent on monocropping practices, synthetic fertilisers and pesticides all of which harm biodiversity and soil organisms, much like how the overuse of antibiotics affects humans. You are what your food eats Soil feeds us and our food.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Vrain’s innovative wide-ranging experiential learning programming, which includes livestock, greenhouse production, and culinary arts. Mark explained that they grow their produce without pesticides or herbicides as it is the soil that will determine the health of everything that grows out of it. They also have a farm stand.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It generates about a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally.” Representatives from Bayer and CropLife America, the pesticide trade group, were also present as sponsors of the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americans pavilion. “Let’s be clear: we know our current food systems are broken,” she said.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

He manipulates weather patterns to bring on drought and extreme temperatures, summons pests that are resistant to pesticides, and degrades the soil. Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

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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. It turns out that Democratic policies weren’t good then either, and our family ended up losing our farm.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Their program involves a seek investment of livestock or agriculture, followed by a formal mentorship, helping families build resilient businesses and training the next generation of leaders. Through research, stakeholder engagement, and storytelling, Project Drawdown drives global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

Read More: The FDA Is Still Not Tracking How Farms Use Antibiotics Ads for Livestock Antibiotics Fly in the Face of FDA Rules. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retract a memo it released last year that reported the agency found no evidence of PFAS in its tests of commonly used pesticides. They do amazing stuff. PFAS Data Debate.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Optimize Feed & Fertilizer Use: One approach to be more efficient on your farm is optimizing the use of fertilizers and pesticides, applying them only when necessary and in the right quantities , thereby reducing waste and environmental impact. Diversify Crops & Livestock A great strategy for sidestepping tariffs can be to diversify.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. The problem is that its notoriously hard to define. For them, the definition does not go far enough.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2501); requires at least 80% of the funds to be used for easements that will most reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions associated with land eligible for the program as laid out in the IRA (Sec. 2313) Yellow Flags: Adds precision agriculture to the Conservation Title.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. Big Ag is a major polluter. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years.

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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. Soliciting input from a broad pool of stakeholders also helps lawmakers formulate more effective policy, says Riviera.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And it found that despite an executive order directing agencies to consider greenhouse gas emissions in procurement, another addressing consolidation , and hundreds of millions of dollars granted to small and mid-size farms and processors over the past few years, the government isn’t exactly putting its money where its mouth is. Who Benefits?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour

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Civil Eats

MAY 29, 2024

“As a doctor, I am concerned about eroding protections for those most affected by dangerous pesticide exposures—the workers who apply them,” said Representative Yadira Caraveo (D-Colorado) during last Thursday’s session to discuss, amend, and vote on the House Agriculture Committee’s first draft of the 2024 Farm Bill. policymakers.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sown in conjunction with soybeans—another industrial crop whose main uses are livestock feed, processed-food ingredients, exports, and car fuel in the form of biodiesel—corn requires massive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, which leach off fields and drive a growing water pollution crisis throughout the corn belt.

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