Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Belmont Estate is also seeking contributions to reconstruct greenhouses and farm buildings, as well as purchase new equipment for essential agricultural activities. The trees’ adoptive “parents” receive seasonal updates, explaining the processes from flowering to harvesting through to the arrival of packaged coffee at their front door.

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Farming Farming Processing Production 88

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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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

By Cody Brown and Darron Gaus , NCAT Agriculture Specialists Carbon Farm Planning is a rewarding process for producers and conservation planners, as we “dig deep” and find all the potential carbon sinks and soil health practices that can be implemented across the landscape. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner.

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Greenhouse Ranching Processing Acre 98

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. territories. We look forward to continued collaboration and outreach as the Program develops.

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Greenhouse Agriculture Agriculture Forestry 100

ATTRA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Increase the efficiency and reduce labor costs of seeding transplant trays in your greenhouse with this self-built vacuum seeder. This how-to video explains the process of building your own vacuum seeder from start to finish at a fraction of the cost of commercial models.

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Greenhouse Rural Development Seeding Processing 98

NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

If states continue to require claims conflicting with EPA findings, an already cynical public would likely have reduced confidence in pesticide labels and whether any appropriately science-based processes were used to establish any claims or lack thereof on packaging.

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Pesticide Manufacturing Grain Forage 130

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. Denali’s depackaging process enabled farmers to receive fertilizer and/or animal feed at no cost, saving them a minimum of $100 per acre.

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Fertilizer Manufacturing Acre Compost 49

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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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

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 117

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 Greenhouse Manure Agriculture 133

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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Greenhouse Crop Technology Crop Rotation 132

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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Food Greenhouse Farming Farming 145

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

MARCH 21, 2025

Some habits such as eating ultra-processed foods and beverages (UPFs) or long-distance transport of vegetables, are common but have big consequences. It is clear that human health is inextricably linked to the health of other ecosystem components such as soil, plants and animals.If

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Agroecology Food Grain Beverage 52

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 Manufacturing Greenhouse Distribution 98

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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Food Processing Production Pesticide 144

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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Industrial Agriculture Agroecology Food Agriculture 144

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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Arable Land Food Production Processing 126

Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Farmers in the Honduras TREE program participate in a workshop at a community greenhouse. Volunteers beautified schools, constructed greenhouses, planted tree nurseries, and helped prepare gardens for SHI family farmers. Following the audit, SHIs staff gained a renewed sense of transparency and understanding.

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Food 72

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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Farming Farming Food Greenhouse 144

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 125

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 136

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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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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Cattle Livestock Processing Production 95

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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Crop Farming Farming Plantation 114

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 133

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 Greenhouse Poultry 101

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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Food Agriculture Agriculture Processing 130

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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Technology Greenhouse Processing Production 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, researchers utilize the long-term farming systems trials at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service station in Beltsville, MD , to address nutrients, weeds, soil health, greenhouse gas mitigation, and net economic returns in organic field crop rotations. Continued and strengthened support for both OREI and ORG is crucial.

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Food Seeding Crop Poultry 106

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 130

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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Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 120

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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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

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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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

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. Its like full circle.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. Pollard now leases land not far from the processing plant in Marks. Grocery stores are scarce.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

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 138