National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. No supplemental payments for agroforestry practices and enhancements.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A few days after moving in, concerned neighbors informed her that Ledgeview Farms, a large dairy farm behind her home, was planning to expand, which included building a manure pit to store millions of gallons of waste next to the subdivision. Over the next several years, Porter began noticing manure runoff in the creek her kids would play in.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks. Not only does she see a future of collaboration among the farmers in this corner of rural Maryland, she wants to feed the people who live here, too. “A

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. And that waste is kept in manure lagoons that are built to leak, according to Adam Voskuil, a staff attorney for Midwest Environmental Advocates.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 30th, a Calumet County Circuit Court rejected a reckless attempt to eliminate environmental oversight of the state’s largest livestock facilities. The lobbying groups alleged the DNR lacked authority to require large livestock operations to apply for permits under Wisconsin’s ,, water pollution permitting program.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

We should feed the soil more like we feed ourselves and our livestock. Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Industry groups should make it clear to members that cover crops and more in-season application must become part of all manure management plans and programs.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. In 2002, Kalbach lived on a small farm in Adair County, Iowa—a rural community that today has a population of less than 8,000.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Given how few farms are using it, there are still many questions about limitations—like the absence of cell service in some rural areas, farmer acceptance , accuracy, and ongoing costs —but buzz about virtual fencing’s applications continues to grow.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. We are female; we are male.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

The COWS Act would establish a new federal program aiming to improve economic viability and sustainability for the dairy and livestock industry. The program proposed in the COWS Act is modeled on a successful and very popular incentive program that started in California in 2017, the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP).

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides. A lot of people don’t understand why my cheese costs [four times more than] Walmart’s.” “We’re an important fabric of these rural communities.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. In 2002, Kalbach lived on a small farm in Adair County, Iowa—a rural community that today has a population of less than 8,000.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill. Help Small Farms Access Crop Insurance Crop insurance only works well for large, commodity farms, since most smaller, diversified farms don’t grow enough of a single crop to make it worth the investment.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In comparison to the enormous opportunity that sustainable and organic agriculture represents for farmers and rural communities, federal investment in related research, education, and extension has been minuscule. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop. Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Livestock Publications Council (LPC) annually inducts one of its distinguished leaders into the Hall of Fame. launch of the XSplit® Separator, an innovative solution that significantly enhances manure management for dairy, cow, and livestock operations. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF).

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I picture a pair of dung beetles rolling a ball of manure together, sharing hopes and dreams for their future offspring, or perhaps squabbling about where to bury their dung ball like Mr. and Mrs. Mallard looking for a good place to lay their eggs in the children’s classic, Make Way for Ducklings. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. In addition, large concentrated animal feeding operations, which have become more prevalent there in recent years, add to the problem by disposing millions of gallons of nitrogen-rich liquid manure.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. Some have joined groups to learn about innovative farming practices such as cover crops, minimum tillage or low-disturbance manure application.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill. Help Small Farms Access Crop Insurance Crop insurance only works well for large, commodity farms, since most smaller, diversified farms don’t grow enough of a single crop to make it worth the investment.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to Thompson, the credit for the pilot concept belongs to RIPE (Rural Investment to Protect our Environment). agriculture both domestically and internationally, build wealth that stays in rural communities, and support a diverse range of producers and operation types.” billion in funding for 70 climate-smart projects.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. Community organizers, under the group name Citizens Protecting Rural Wisconsin , argued that digesters aren’t the solution that they seem to be. In 2020, manure accounted for about 9 percent of the US’s methane emissions.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Livestock is responsible for anywhere from 11.1 One of the issues is the imprecise use of language many are interchanging between carbon-neutral and climate-neutral,” says Caspar Donnison, the author of a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters , on climate neutrality claims in the livestock sector.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The drop, Vilsack argued, has caused ripple effects across rural America, resulting in the loss of schools, businesses and healthcare infrastructure, and the overall hollowing out of farming communities. When animals are raised on pasture, their manure releases very little methane.) million over the 2017 census.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Then there’s the James Ranch in Colorado, originally bought by Dave and Kay James, who dreamt of raising a large family in a rural setting. Alcarràs is an emotional and empathetic portrayal of the challenges facing fruit-farming families in rural Spain. Alcarràs Director: Carla Simón Where to watch: Available to watch on Mubi.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Harold had a big “aha moment” when he was introduced to the practices of Brendan Rockey, a regenerative potato farmer in Colorado , who is significantly reducing reliance on pesticides and fungicides, and in turn, planting companion crops, green manure and cover crops, and integrating livestock to add nutrients back into the soil.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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