The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that most farm loan borrowers will be able to make payments to their direct loans online through the Pay My Loan feature on farmers.gov in early February. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This bill helps meet the conservation needs of young and BIPOC producers through dedicated funding and a simplified application process for small operations. With these partners, we call on Congress to include the text of the Small Farm Conservation Act in the 2023 Farm Bill.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. And it’s the time I’ve been still and just observed.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2 hectares of land upon which Mattia has created 38 pens, each 120m2 in size. So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. This title receives some updates in the 118th Congress: The Processing Resilience Grant program provisions are updated to align with the Strengthening Local Processing Act.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Unfortunately for the ease of filling out our organic application, our farm’s process is the opposite of rigid. Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” We have a lot of fields that were supposed to all be the same size and length but they aren’t.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

By way of comparison, Climeworks, which uses mechanical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in rock, reportedly charges between $500 and $1,000 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent removed. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

They provide feed for the livestock whose meat and dairy make fast-food chains and deli counters hum, and their derivatives provide a huge proportion of the fat, sweeteners, and other additives that make processed treats so hard to resist. Most of that came in the form of fat added to processed food.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

As a result, the comparatively few legislators representing agricultural areas need the votes of colleagues who wouldn’t know a harrow from a plow. In contrast to a century ago, when a quarter of Americans lived on the farm, most members of Congress today hail from urban and suburban areas, where most of us now live.

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