Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2023, the TDOT launched a program called Project Milkweed —free mail-order milkweed seeds for people to plant in their gardens to support monarchs. It ran out of seeds pretty quickly, restocked and ran out again. All in all, it received 130,903 individual orders, sending out a total of 799,601 packets of seeds. “I

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. When it came time for our [oyster seed] orders to come in, the hatchery said, ‘We had a complete crash. That’s not right.” seaweed industry.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Its seeding future conflict. The farm is small with a remarkably diverse array of landscapes woodland, ancient meadows, a stream that runs through the farm drawing a broad range of creatures and birds. Its inequity. Its destabilising the world, says lead reporter Nathan Halverson.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Gutwein Seed Services announced a partnership with Streamline Ag in offering groundbreaking biological pest solutions for corn rootworms and soybean cyst nematodes.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity. In addition to every species’ inherent value, mammals are vital in the natural order. They even mitigate climate change.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2020, seed companies sold out. They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. In a country of 100 million households, that’s enough eggs to supply a dozen a week to a quarter of the nation’s households. That doesn’t seem like much, unless you’re the only family with eggs.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Patrick has been using diverse seed mixes since he started at Bwlchwernen in 1973. The biodiversity generated by the farm’s productivity exists together with the biodiversity that flourishes naturally, they are not mutually exclusive – our traditionally managed hay meadows are alive at the moment with invertebrates, birds and mammals.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. While he claims most of the barley grew naturally from the seeds of last year’s crop, the adjusters questioned his intentions. I just seed the minimal level of 10 pounds [of flax] an acre with my peas.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. I heard a similar argument when I paid a visit to David Whittaker at Oak Meadows Farm , a pasture-raised poultry and hog operation near where I live in Whatcom County, WA.

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