Caff

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted our second Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) field day at River Garden Farms on November 30th, 2021 titled “Cover Cropping, Sanitation and Mating Disruption in Walnuts.” They now cover crop every orchard, resulting in about 500 acres of open ground cover cropped.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 2, 2023

A study in Cyprus citrus orchards by the universities of Bristol, Göttingen, and Exeter found that bat activity on farms declined during organic transition. Researchers suggest that the soil and ecosystem may take time to recover when applications of fertilizers and pesticides stop.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The projects funded this year focus on a range of practices aimed at reducing reliance on pesticides. The third project seeks to reduce pyrethroid insecticide use in nut orchards through watershed-wide use of pheromone mating disruption for key pests.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. Will it work? By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. In 2002, U.S.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Caff

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) field day on November 30th in Clements, CA. Farmer Alicia Lewis-Rikkonen arranged a demonstration of a novel weed control technology, called FoamStream, in her olive orchard and vineyard.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2023

He says the labor and lessons of his ancestors are in the soil and the grapevines and orchards, and he’s passing these on to the next generations. Matsumoto in an orchard he planted with his father. Mas is an author, too, who has delved into the stories of his farm and family in more than 10 books. Photo by Lisa Morehouse.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. Will it work? By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. Will it work? By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. Will it work? By Brian Barth , March 23, 2020 Are we handling the bee crisis all wrong?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. OREI also prioritizes research that takes place on working farms, like this research project that investigated the pest management services a robust bird population can provide orchards.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

No soil amendments, no herbicides, no pesticides, no fungicides ever used. sullivantii ‘ Goldsturm ’ , Goldsturm black eyed susan, Rudbeckia hirta, ‘Indian Summer’, Indian Summer black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia nitida ‘ Herbstonne ’ , Autumn Sun giant coneflower.)

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

And because they grow quickly with minimal resources—and without herbicides or pesticides—scientists point to their potential to help bolster nutritional security, hedge against disruptions in the food supply chain and even generate fresh produce on long-term space missions. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

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.

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Cropaia

JUNE 26, 2023

For example, in apple orchards, the full bloom stage might be considered the biofix for codling moth management. It helps determine the optimal timing for pesticide applications. Types of biofixes There are four main types of biofixes: phenological, environmental, and pheromone trap biofixes.

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Caff

JULY 18, 2024

As growers build biodiversity and increase biological control methods, they can reduce reliance on harsher pesticides. CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management team takes a holistic approach to managing pests that includes a suite of practices which farms and ranches can employ based on their own unique needs and circumstances.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St. Mark explained that they grow their produce without pesticides or herbicides as it is the soil that will determine the health of everything that grows out of it. They also have a farm stand. Somewhere, over the rainbow, NSAC members enjoyed farm fresh food.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 30, 2024

For example, if a New York district wants to buy apples grown in-state today, they would have to evaluate bids from in-state orchards alongside bids from out-of-state distributors, many of which are likely to come in with a much lower price. “It

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

We weren’t going to use fungicides, herbicides, nor pesticides — partly for the health of the land and the diversity of the ecosystem, and partly for our own health. For example, if you want to put an orchard in an area with heavy clay or muskeg, it won’t work. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the latest steps to incorporate stakeholder feedback and collaboration with federal partners, ensuring the Agency’s work to protect endangered species from pesticides is practical, flexible, and supports the agricultural community.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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Civil Eats

MAY 29, 2024

“As a doctor, I am concerned about eroding protections for those most affected by dangerous pesticide exposures—the workers who apply them,” said Representative Yadira Caraveo (D-Colorado) during last Thursday’s session to discuss, amend, and vote on the House Agriculture Committee’s first draft of the 2024 Farm Bill. policymakers.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

an hour for his work in the mango orchards. In March 2022, I joined six middle-aged men, all in crisp, short-sleeve button-up shirts and jeans, as they talked mango production—how the season was going, the pesticides they found effective, and so on. A migrant picking mangoes in Tapachula. Jones Carme said he was paid $1.25

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