Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison. Farley Green, Marketing Manager at Audubon Conservation Ranching, speaks to the consumer side of conservation ranching. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

On Agritecture Designer , you can compare CapEx, OpEx, and yields from vertical farms, greenhouses, or container farms to discover which would be best for your idea and local market. Agritecture’s consulting team is a big fan of greenhouses, which have a long history of commercial and private success.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 12, 2024

Nitricity is on a quest to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions via its innovative natural liquid fertilizer manufacturing process. The technology represents a major disruption to the global fertilizer market.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve seen statements and studies on both sides of the argument and I’m having a hard time determining what is supported science vs wishful thinking or greenwashing marketing hype. But the study delves into a more comprehensive analysis, considering factors beyond direct greenhouse gas emissions. Links to 2 difference examples below).

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Hola runs a four-week training program called Groundwork to Grow, which offers veterans and aspiring farmers hands-on workshops in areas including agribusiness, beekeeping, greenhouse management, livestock care, and agroforestry. To connect Hawaiis small farmers with commercial kitchen facilities, Hola Farms operates the Hilo Food Hub.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Asheville-based initiative seeks to mitigate climate change by helping farmers establish, monitor, and verify carbon sequestration through tactics like agroforestry in the Southern Appalachians, in hopes of creating the country’s first regional carbon market. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2023

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is now at the top of every industry’s agenda, and one sector that will […] The post Could carbon-cutting carinata give growers a profitable break? appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Agwired

JANUARY 15, 2025

The interim rule establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the production of biofuel feedstock commodity crops grown in the United States.

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NASDA

JUNE 28, 2024

Comment Re: Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Request for Information (RIN 0581-AE29) Dear Administrator Summers: NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. As the voluntary carbon marketplace continues to evolve, regular, meaningful stakeholder engagement must remain a priority.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) The OREI program awards funds for research conducted on certified organic land to address production, marketing, and socioeconomic constraints on the growth of the organic sector and to elevate the economic and social benefits of organic farming. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Food systems generate US$20 trillion of social, human and environmental costs per year , dwarfing their US$9 trillion market value. The way we produce, distribute, consume and dispose of food represents the “number one threat to people and to nature,” argued Joao Campari, Global Lead of WWF’s International, Food Practice.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2025

USDA named 36 members to serve on the newly formed Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council , informally referred to as to the Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 22, 2024

CFT is a globally recognized carbon quantification tool that enables growers to measure estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on their farms The post Syngenta Integrates Cool Farm Tool Into the Cropwise Sustainability Application appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

USDA has published a report, Intent to Establish the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program , justifying the Secretary’s intent to establish the program.

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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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Global Agtech Initiative

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It was five years ago that five teams had the opportunity to deliver a unique achievement in the Netherlands during the first Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge. The post 5 Lessons Learned During 5 Years of Autonomous Growing appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. However, other ecosystem services remain out of the market as there are no buyers. These are the benefits nature provides to support agriculture and the broader economy.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We’ve done testing from a high-tech, very controlled greenhouse to an open field in Egypt,” says Ryan Lefers, CEO and co-founder. Beyond selling the actual fruits, though, Red Sea is working to get its seedlings into the market, so growers can bring salt-water-tolerant plants to their local areas. “We’re

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. Overall the ethanol market has had an effect on the price of corn as well as on other crops.

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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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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

An Illinois-based processing facility successfully completed its first run of climate-smart soybeans this fall, marking a significant milestone in the initiative to bring climate-smart commodities to market. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote carbon sequestration and improve soil health.

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Global Agtech Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The new partnership allows more greenhouse growers to optimize their operations, increase yield, and ultimately boost profitability. The post Source.ag Expands Its Partner Network, Joins Forces with Sigrow appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The nonprofit recipient works to address food insecurity in southern Nevada through a pop up mobile market, a brick and mortar community market, and grocery delivery. “We all deserve access to nutritious food—food is a right,” Regina Anderson, Executive Director of FRN, tells Food Tank. and move from food waste to food recovery.”

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vertical farms and greenhouses are seeing much more capital investment than they had in the past, and CEA businesses are improving their unit economics through new technologies which attract investment, as well. It answers the questions: “Is the company growing the right products for the right markets?

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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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Agwired

JUNE 13, 2024

The National Corn Growers Association , American Farm Bureau Federation and six auto dealers representing 16 brands and collectively operating dozens of dealerships in major markets across the country joined the American Petroleum Institute today in filing a lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction COMET-Planner is a web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) evaluation tool used to provide modelled estimates of the greenhouse gas impacts of certain conservation practices utilized across various agricultural landscapes. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Carbon Markets , a comprehensive look at current market activity, barriers to participation, and opportunities to improve access to carbon markets for farmers and forest landowners. USDA released A General Assessment of the Role of Agriculture and Forestry in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Read our breakdown of some of the obstacles the carbon credit market faces here.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Rupert Murdoch’s Montana ranch is at the center of an effort to get grass-fed beef into mainstream grocery stores; others are using investments to build new markets entirely.

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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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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

These partners assist TREE participants in diversifying their agri-food systems and evaluating potential organic products for the market. Farmers in the Honduras TREE program participate in a workshop at a community greenhouse. To launch TREE, the Honduras program partnered with a range of local and international entities.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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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 Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

For example long-distance transport, temperature and number of storage days can lead to a loss of vitamins and minerals , and high consumption of ultra-processed foods is linked to increased cardiovascular diseases as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. He took his products to farmers markets and found if he processed birds and sold legs, wings and breasts separately, people were more likely to buy them. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first.

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