Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

Can This Beef Cooperative Become ‘the West’s Largest Climate-Smart Ranching Program’? Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S.

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Food Seeding Crop Farming 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

CIG Classic Basics Part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the CIG program is administered by NRCS and provides grant funding for the development, application, and demonstration of innovative conservation technologies and approaches. CIGs bring a wide range of partners to the table to support innovation.

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Farming Farming Forestry Technology 89

Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hosted by AFIA’s Equipment Manufacturers Committee, this year’s conference embraced the theme, “Feed Industry 4.0 – Leveraging Emerging Technologies,” with sessions covering regulatory updates, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

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Manufacturing Ranching Supply Chain Marketing 45

Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Farmers and Ranchers It’s hard to talk about agriculture without mentioning farming and ranching. They work on farms, in fields and greenhouses, around livestock, with plants, soil and water. They are responsible for supervising employees as well as all operations on the farm or ranch.

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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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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Moreover, despite a steady growth in total factor productivity (TFP, “a ratio of agricultural outputs produced to inputs used“) since 1948 as a result of technological change, climate change has already dampened TFP, and it is expected to decline to pre-1980 levels by 2050 unless adaptation measures adequately respond.

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Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. My idea of a successful rancher was that of traditional ranching — whoever had the most land. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative. Their work focuses on enhancing capacity, scaling technologies, facilitating access to technology, and supporting knowledge sharing to design solutions for producers.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Niman Ranch Next Generation Foundation , United States The Niman Ranch Next Generation Foundation awards scholarships and grants to future sustainable farmers and agriculture leaders. Through research, stakeholder engagement, and storytelling, Project Drawdown drives global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Conspiracy Theories and an Ongoing Culture War Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have shown that livestock accounts for anywhere between 11 and 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from land use and cow burps.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Federal and state governments have put forth biogas technology as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. And yet, this technology is part of both state and federal plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. They experience the air and water pollution firsthand.

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Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 108

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Federal and state governments have put forth biogas technology as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. And yet, this technology is part of both state and federal plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. They experience the air and water pollution firsthand.

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Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 83

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

and 8 percent of Californias greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from croplands, industrial vehicles, and livestock. A broader definition allows for innovations in technology or advances in inputs or soil amendments to be incorporated, Pinel and others have argued. percent of Californias farms are certified organic.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Family Farming 139

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

The biggest farms can secure the best interest rates on credit, buy inputs at lower bulk rates, and trim labor costs through technology like robotic milking systems and calf feeders. The majority of the countrys 9.3 million milk cows are raised in herds of 1,000 or more, primarily or entirely confined indoors.

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Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 133

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And the meat industry alone, by some estimates, accounts for nearly 60 percent of all greenhouse gasses produced by the food system. Climate change, though, is where the game is really changing for meat. And on it went.

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Food Greenhouse Cattle Production 52