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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OECD: Environment

AUGUST 2, 2023

Further, appropriate education and opportunities are needed for workers who are already employed or who are in the job market; this will also require retraining programmes to properly upskill and reskill workers to better align with labour market needs.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

He went on to talk about the studies being done on greenhouse gases in relation to sheep farming and the potential for wool to be a carbon sink, with around 40% of a sheep’s fleece consisting of carbon. Why are we competing on a global scale when we have good markets in the UK for fibres and textiles?

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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. To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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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

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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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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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers. During the warmer months, he spends Saturday mornings at Eastern Market, attracting a loyal crowd of cooks in search of unique and uncommon peppers. A pound of heirloom tomatoes costs $8. I wouldn’t pay that.

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

He explains that they reduce the time it takes to compost, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and they require very little water for breeding. We’ve seen a wide acceptability, when you come up with consumer-friendly, familiar products that are market driven.” icipe’s work also touches on sustainable pest control practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is, of course, more to environmental impacts than the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. The value-added benefits of local marketing arise at least in part from being able to sell local products at a premium. Merging the two types of systems together hides the differing impacts of each.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. The armed forces instill “grit and a mission-driven attitude,” she says, so the challenging nature of farming—the weather, pests and disease, the market—is often a good fit. And disabled veterans are just as capable, she adds, particularly in marketing, logistics, distribution and compliance.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company has expanded its facilities, equipment, and team targeted to the biopesticide and biostimulant markets. They rely on state-of-the-art lab equipment and an onsite greenhouse to test and refine each formulation to meet the desired characteristics. Having this on-site greenhouse means quicker, more efficient testing.

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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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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. It’s likely that within this centralized market, carbon emissions and sequestration will be part of the formula used to determine whether grain was sustainably grown.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

They’re tools for the meat and dairy industry to market their products. Other companies that use Alexandre as a supplier, whether for ice cream, cheese, or even toddler formula, have used marketing based off of Alexandre’s humanewashing and greenwashing, and reaped the benefits. And then there’s the halo effect.

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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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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cotton and wool producers in the states of California, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming are invited to apply to the new program “Climate Beneficial Fiber: Building New, Accessible, and Equitable Market Opportunities for Climate-Smart Wool and Cotton.” With funding from USDA’s Partnerships (..)

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DTN

JUNE 12, 2024

This article was originally published in Independent Gasoline Marketing , a bi-monthly magazine by SIGMA. In its rule, EPA cited analysis of the effect the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act would have on market penetration of PEVs. new vehicle market share in 2023 from 5.2% roadways, which grew 2.1%

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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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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, Hardin wants to use the knowledge he’s gained to tackle some big challenges across the state by using biochar to clean up the Illinois River watershed, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help farmers improve the quality of their soil through his innovative initiative called the Carbon Chicken Project.

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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. Over 5,000 acres of ranchland are participating by implementing climate-smart grazing practices that will enable access to these markets.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 24, 2023

He powered the greenhouse with on-site solar panels, opted for natural pest control instead of synthetics and sold his products in recyclable, 99% plastic-free packaging. “It’s But with that speed comes massive greenhouse gas emissions from lighting, heating, cooling and dehumidification—powered mostly by petrochemicals. “The

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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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