Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. 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.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I boasted about how indigenous flowers would aid pollinators that suffer from habitat loss, store greenhouse gasses and create a buffer against drought and heavy rains. I knew that the US’s 40 million acres of lawns contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through consistent mowing and drink up to nine billion gallons of water daily.

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Meadow Greenhouse Compost Soil Compaction 115

Food Tank

JUNE 18, 2024

Plant-forward menus, which offer fiber-rich vegetarian dishes and plant-based proteins alongside animal-based foods, have a significantly lower environmental footprint when it comes to greenhouse gases, water and land use, manure pollution, and harm to wildlife and native habitats.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 2, 2024

“Many times, we don’t leave to cool off, (even) for a short while,” said Eulalia Mendoza , who picked cucumbers in temps spiking to 105–115 degrees (41–46 C) in a California greenhouse. It’s not because we wouldn’t want to (take a break and cool off), but because we’re scared that they would dismiss us. We don’t have an option.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. It lines the sides of greenhouses, blankets fields as “plastic mulch,” covers hoop houses, and winds through farms as irrigation tubes, among other forms. In 1948, E.M. That’s the reason we’re facing such a massive issue.”

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Farming Farming Greenhouse Food 145

Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The label will include information on the greenhouse gas emissions released during the production, manufacturing, distribution, consumer use, end-of-life reuse, and recycling of the product.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They produce around 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. We went through a two-year process, selecting 50 indicators that cover critical aspects of food systems, organized into five themes. However, we are only at the very beginning of the Countdown process.

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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. But with plants that are grafted, such as pumpkins and watermelons, the process is largely the same. Photography courtesy of Red Sea Farms. In a hydroponic system, water is recirculated.

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Food Tank

JULY 26, 2024

They feature a full processing plant while housing and feeding up to 130 people each. Since we process everything onboard immediately after catch, we maximize product quality while avoiding the need for extra processing or shipping. Who’s going to click on this nothing-burger of a story? Sustainable seafood is cool.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. And it reduces the climate and environmental footprint of growing, processing, and transporting industrially farmed animal food. Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Unlike traditional tissue analysis, which often takes several days to process, sap analysis offers a rapid snapshot, allowing growers to respond to nutrient data within hours. This is particularly valuable in crops that demand precise nutrient balance, such as fruits, vegetables, and high-value greenhouse crops.

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Fertilizer Crop Processing Greenhouse 91

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 15, 2024

Food scraps and landscaping debris, rather than going “out of sight” to landfills, where they emit significant greenhouse gases , are transformed into material that sustains local gardens, fortifies the city’s heat-mitigating tree population , and remediates contaminated soils.

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Compost Food Ecology Processing 140

World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The bioconversions lab offers customers a unique opportunity for processing, an essential step in developing biological formulations. Maintaining the chemical structure throughout the development process is crucial to optimizing the product’s application, efficacy, and shelf life.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. Some workers are taking matters into their own hands.

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Compost Food Greenhouse Manufacturing 138

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Especially when it comes to food systems. But among the doom and gloom shine beacons of hope.

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NASDA

JUNE 12, 2023

” Reardon shared that having openness early in the process of envisioning how the NASDA Foundation and FDA would work with state partners to implement the FSMA regulatory process enabled the creation of foundational FSMA documents and an operational framework that truly meet the vision and public health goals of FSMA.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems.

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Greenhouse Production Animal Agriculture Pasture 109

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Palm oil, for example, is in many processed foods at American supermarkets. Using a source of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the actual process of producing the fats could result in fewer emissions than traditional oil production. Fats could be synthesized at scale, says Davis.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 5, 2024

Certainly, the change in availability is in part due to ease of imports and prevalence of greenhouses today. Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere mean there’s an excess of carbon dioxide now, which stimulates photosynthesis and growth in those plants while also changing their chemistry.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. Over six weeks, the curriculum covers the full seed-to-market process including access to financing, food safety and building a business plan around a farming operation. Despite a very different professional pace, he says, the process is similar.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5 According to FAO, plastic films such as black mulch and greenhouse covers account for the bulk of annual global use, at more than 8 million tons. percent of global emissions.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas that scientists say has driven roughly 30 percent of Earth’s warming since pre-industrial times. Investing in kitchen facilities and culinary training for staff is key to tailoring healthier meals, Dreibelbis says, and transitioning lunches away from processed heat-and-serve foods.

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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. Pollard said Cream Co.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Byproducts of processed foods get tossed out on the manufacturing line. percent of its greenhouse gas emissions on food that never gets eaten, as well as an estimated 16 percent of US cropland and 22 percent of its freshwater use. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) In processing: 14.7 And yet, we’re pretty much all guilty of it.

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Food Compost Greenhouse Manufacturing 121

Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

And then it became this kind of existential thought process for us on, you know, what is the future of this farm?” When Faaborg wanted to start changing the way his family farmed, he was met with some skepticism and felt overwhelmed with the process, he says, until he linked up with The Transfarmation Project. Left: Paula Boles.

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Farming Farming Poultry Greenhouse 84

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 16, 2023

Just like equipment leasing , infrastructure leasing allows farmers to lease facilities such as barns, silos, storage sheds, greenhouses, and other structures used in the farming process. What is farm infrastructure leasing?

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Farming Farming Processing Greenhouse 98

ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

To help explain the complex calculations behind measuring a farm or field’s carbon footprint, we’ve summarized some of these tools and processes below. A third party verifies all these processes to ensure reporting meets GHG Protocol, SEC, SBTi, the Gold Standard, and Verra requirements and that the data can be trusted and relied upon.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

According to the WWF’s latest Living Planet report , they generate one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, are responsible for 90 percent of deforestation and 70 percent of freshwater biodiversity loss, and are the main driver behind a 86 percent decline in wildlife populations in the 50 years to 2020.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic. This innovation significantly cuts down on labor, time and risk of mishandling crops, making the post-harvest process more efficient, especially for a low value crop.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A lot of consumers don’t understand carbon sequestration or greenhouse gas emissions, but they can really understand habitat,” she tells Food Tank. Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Currently, Orbillion is focusing on products with a consistency similar to ground meats, but in the future, they hope to be able to master the process to provide a more structured product in the future, such as steaks. This Omani startup utilizes drones to help farmers with various agricultural processes. Credit: WIPO.

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Food Tank

APRIL 4, 2024

The Institute has three seed banks, a greenhouse, ceremonial women’s house, restored adobe, and more. These include farming and gardening, composting, animal husbandry and processing, adobe construction, mud plastering, pottery, and weaving.

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