Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They need space where pesticide use is low enough that they can successfully reproduce and become (or remain) locally established. I’ve seen this in my own fruit orchard. But native bee abundance is heavily influenced by the availability of adequate habitat such as areas of undisturbed ground, as most native bees nest in the ground.

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Crop Yield Yield Crop Pesticide 137

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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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Orchard 86

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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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 91

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

I could triple [production] and still be able to operate it from my home,” says DiLillo. Over the last decade, the appeal of consistent and efficient crop production—made increasingly so by precision technology, AI platforms and data analytics—has spurred a boom in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA).

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 96

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. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 92

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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Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

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?

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

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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Farming Farming Orchard Acre 52

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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Crop Orchard Pesticide Production 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 140

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St. Francis since 1938, Sister Gardens has become a bustling site of food production and also of reawakened community cultivation.​ Vrain’s innovative wide-ranging experiential learning programming, which includes livestock, greenhouse production, and culinary arts.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

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. We also wanted to offer candles, beeswax, healing salves, and other products to our community. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

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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Food Orchard Cattle Processing 126

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. They worry about the inconveniences it might cause to production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 88

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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Tractor Technology Harvest Harvester 45

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Bloom considers whether to boycott the popular confection in an effort to combat child slavery and environmental destruction in cacao production. Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. An Ethical Dilemma,” Lynn Z.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 133

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

The United States was the main international customer, purchasing 80 percent of those products. With more than 95,000 acres devoted to mango production in 2021 (roughly 1.5 an hour for his work in the mango orchards. But at brunch their conversation lingered on frustration that production costs had continued to rise.

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Agriculture Agriculture Plantation Harvest 52