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Lopes Family Farm Field Day: Integrated rice and duck farming

Caff

On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). Additionally, being such a novel method of farming in the U.S.,

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Path to a New Farm Bill: Sustainable and Organic Research 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Programs like AgARDA, a carve out in SCRI for mechanization and automation, and a greater emphasis on automation and precision agriculture in the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), demonstrate a continued quest for reductionist or “silver-bullet” solutions to climate change and other agricultural challenges.

Farming 110
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DON'T ASK FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

The Lunatic Farmer

Well, they believe life is fundamentally mechanical, more like a car than a spirit. They believe carbon-based (compost) farming will starve the world. That America's farm salvation is exports. That mixing plants and animals with integrated farming brings disease. Change indeed. Perfect example of RFK Jr.'s