Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers like Abebe Moliso, whose family land in the Ethiopian highlands became severely degraded from years of monocropping, overgrazing, and slashing the forests in the pursuit of new productive fields, all of which radically changed the local climate. The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. In the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. But plasticulture, or the use of plastic products in agriculture, also comes with a wide range of known problems. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

More importantly, the agency aims to catalyze new, premium markets for products such as climate-smart corn, soybeans, and beef, which it hopes will spur farmers to continue these practices far into the future. The emerging market for climate-friendly products, he added, represents “a transformational opportunity for U.S. agriculture.”

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Cow/calf pairs grazing stockpile.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Weve actually been working more hours with less food, with less production, said Pinto da Costa, noting that working at night has made their work less efficient and led them to find less fish. to beat the heat, collecting milk from their buffalo and preparing products to sell in the market during the dusky hours of the morning.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans. He also signed up to raise cover crops for seed production, which qualified him for the alternative crop portion of the initiative.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. The country is also looking to use agrivoltaics as a potential way to get abandoned farmland back in production.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. full_link READ MORE How farmers in Canada’s north are trying to grow local food production by tweaking some prairie staples.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

These crops are the raw materials the food industry transforms into the dizzying array of products that fill hundreds of millions of bellies every day. Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. cropland an area equal to 1.7 Californias.

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