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From Symptoms to Solutions: Addressing the Underlying Causes of Water Quality Degradation – Part 1

UnderstandingAg

There are some restrictions on timing and amount of manure and/or nitrogen application in some locations, but enforcement is minimal and the 4Rs are voluntary. We already do this for pesticide and manure applicators. To start with, everyone in agriculture must understand soil function and ecosystem processes.

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A Real Solution to the Cattle Industry’s ‘Methane Problem’

UnderstandingAg

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Opinion: Why the Farm Bill Isn’t Prioritizing the Right Things

Modern Farmer

Agricultural run-off, including soil erosion, nutrient loss from fertilizers and animal manure, bacteria from animal manure and pesticides are the largest stressors to water quality of America’s streams and rivers. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States.

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Whose Farm Is More Sustainable? Calculating Farm Sustainability.

DTN

fertilizer application, irrigation, machinery use, pesticide application) and the sources of carbon sequestration (e.g., To help explain the complex calculations behind measuring a farm or field’s carbon footprint, we’ve summarized some of these tools and processes below. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres).

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. During this transition period, farmers have to adhere to organic regulations without benefiting from the price premium.

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