National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Marbleseed National Bison Association National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Pesticide Action Network (national, and CA, MN, IA, HI) Simple Mills Soil and Water Conservation Society Union of Concerned Scientists Waterkeeper Alliance Wild Farm Alliance Midwest and South Businesses and Organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (NC, SC) (..)

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

When he dug deeper (literally) he saw that the soils farmers were working with had an impenetrable plow pan layer about 6 inches below the surface, so the cotton plant roots could not access the nutrients they needed, even though the nutrients were present. The soil had lost its structure because of the way it was being managed.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. Last May, on the 10th according to my notebook, I stared at five feet of my cover crop’s spring growth. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. There are a few important things to understand about the IRA.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Fertilizer runoff can also affect urban communities downstream. All the time.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

For the less familiar, it is a sprawling “omnibus” legislation that shapes production of agricultural commodities and contains provisions on agricultural research, farm credit, insurance, rural development, trade, conservation, and nutrition—notably the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. The quality of rural care can be low.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. Desmond: People have known that knowledge is valuable for a very long time, but it has been systematically diminished. Raised in Farmville and Compton, California.

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