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. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 137

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land. Here we are planting trees in our pastures, so that in 10 to twelve years we can have dappled shade.” Orefice said.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 91

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. In 2011, they formed an LLC with a rotating president and treasurer, supported by a $27,500 grant from the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI).

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 140

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. Consequently, less forage is likely to be available.

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Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. Pasture-based livestock This title of the bill includes the improvement of animal-raising claims to make them more verifiable and it substantially improves small-scale poultry and meat processing.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

But the farms have an overall smaller footprint, because the added chicken manure boosts the productivity of the hazelnuts and other companion crops, without synthetic fertilizer. ” The chickens in that system eat more grain than chickens raised solely in a barn because they move around much more.

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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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Manure Production Farming Farming 140

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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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Farming 96

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” How do you make the best beef business in America?” is the first one that we worked with in the beef space.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 141

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. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management).

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The impact that the drought is having on pasture is forcing the culling of cattle and reducing the cattle herd.” As a result, farmers have had to make hard choices to prevent the overgrazing of this limited green pasture. And this year, the most influential group in American agriculture has been pointing to big strides made.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Cattle 129

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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 120

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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Farming Farming Food Agriculture 189

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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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

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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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98