NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since the beginning of the year, the harvest price of major crops traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange have fallen by an average of 21% while total production costs remain near record levels. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S. agriculture is projected to be down $55.61

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Farming Farming Grain Supply Chain 130

ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

The process of producing tea, from the tea seed to the cup, is a complex and fascinating one. The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. Remember that propagating tea plants from seeds or cuttings is a labor-intensive process. the Camellia bush.

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Cultivation Harvest Harvesting Harvester 40

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Processing berry pulp, from beak to butt, takes about 15 minutes, though, contrary to popular belief, most holly seeds do not depart through droppings. During a feeding frenzy, robins can regurgitate holly seeds more than 150 feet from the source. Seeds crossed state lines as stowaways on trains or carriages.

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Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 117

CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even when our trees have gone through extended periods of time during harvest without water they have never reached permanent wilting point or defoliated. Through their implementation of sustainable practices Christine says, “our sandy soils have increased their water holding capacity.

Orchard 52

Orchard Farming Farming Agriculture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land. The Raika state that camel foraging has a positive pruning effect on the acacias and other trees, inducing them to branch out stronger.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2023

She came across an opening for pruning and weeding school gardens and other green spaces across New York City’s five boroughs. She points to food forests—diverse, edible gardens that mirror natural ecosystems, free to harvest—as an example of innovation in soil-based urban farming that she’d like to further explore.

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Food Real Estate Agriculture Agriculture 89

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

” Center: Ramon Torres prunes blueberry bushes at the Tierra y Libertad cooperative. Left: A member of Familias Unidas por la Justicia prunes blackberry bushes in a Sakuma Brothers Farms field. On the farm there we plant our seeds for corn and potatoes in March, in the field, just using the hoe. We also grew chilacoyote.

Greenhouse 52

Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The mesquite trees’ seed pods can be ground into a sweet, protein-rich flour used to make bread, cookies, and pancakes. A lot has to go into the planning of where the food forest is, when the fruits are harvestable, and whether the harvestable fruits are equitably distributed.” It’s open for harvest at any time,” Spiller said.

Food 106

Food Forestry Orchard Harvest 106

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much. Is it inappropriate, indulgent, myopic to contextualize my understanding of seed writ large with my understanding of self and place?” Jewell asks.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 130

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Her new home came with a yard left in disrepair after years of vacancy, so she contacted Keep Growing Detroit , an organization dedicated to food sovereignty, to buy seeds to start a garden. On the same day, Penix was scheduled to pick up her seeds, she had a doctor’s appointment. That’s when she received the diagnosis.

Pesticide 68

Pesticide Food Seeding Pruning 68