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Coalition letter Seeking Rulemaking to Modify False or Misleading Statements subsection of the Code of Federal Regulations

NASDA

The propagation of these labels not only risks disrupting commerce, but it could also confuse pesticide users and erode public confidence in science- and risk-based regulation. Rulemaking would significantly help to resolve these challenges, which otherwise are only likely to intensify.

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Guest Post: Is the Future of Organic Food at Risk? Research Funding Holds the Answer

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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. Organic production of crop seeds and transplants.

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17 Food and Ag Approaches to Tackling the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Farmers, for example, are experimenting with the wild seed relatives of domestic crops that may be able to withstand extreme weather. These stores offer shoppers an alternative.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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Precision Ag News 3/6

Agwired

Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the report, Intent to Establish the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program , authorized under the Growing Climate Solutions Act (GCSA). The GCSA was signed into law on December 29, 2022, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.

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As the Climate Crisis Escalates, Here Are 18 Food and Ag Solutions

Civil Eats

We have covered the incorporation of hedgerows to sequester carbon in soil, an ultracross seed-breeding project to create climate-adapted plant varieties, and the adoption of care-centered politics , among many other efforts. Below are some of our most important climate solutions stories from 2023.

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Precision Ag News 1/3

Agwired

Midwestern corn and soybean growers earned more than $140,000 in 2023 for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased soil carbon through implementing regenerative agriculture practices. These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects.

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