ATTRA

APRIL 29, 2024

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have developed a bioplastic pellet made from marine polysaccharide (chitosan), eggshells, and wheat straw that absorbs phosphate nutrient pollutant from water. The biodegradable pellets can then be applied to agricultural land as fertilizer.

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Fertilizer Nutrient Pollution Straw Production 75

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This information enables farmers to make informed decisions about what amendments are needed, such as adding fertilizers or lime, to create a balanced and productive environment. It's worth it to say that fertilizer ratios on products available might not always match exactly the fertilizer ratio that you are looking for.

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Fertilizer Compost Crop Distribution 96

Agric4profits

JUNE 30, 2024

Oat stalks, also known as oat straw, are the fibrous stems of the oat plant that remain after the grain has been harvested. These stalks play a significant role

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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. In fact, the Toxic Substances Control Act banned them in 1979 from further production in the United States. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2024

“My weekly visits to the local farmers’ markets still find an overabundance and reliance on plastic pint containers of berries, single-use plastic bags,and straws! I thought we were done with straws, really?” Bradley’s lament probably feels familiar to most sustainability-minded consumers. Plastic is truly everywhere.

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Straw Food Manufacturing Beverage 140

Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Rice lemma, also known as rice straw or rice chaff, is the stalk or stem of the rice plant (Oryza sativa) that remains after the grains of rice have been harves

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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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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

and New Energy Blue, corn residue has emerged as a transformative resource for renewable plastic production. Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. In a recent deal between Dow, Inc.

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Straw Compost Manufacturing Ruralism 52

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch.

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In early American history, flax had been less economically competitive than cotton, which was able to exploit slave labor, and it made use of the cotton gin, which made its production faster and cheaper. Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Straw 88

Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Distributed at music festivals and public events and in municipalities throughout Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the upcycled product, which looks like a hollowed-out wheel of camembert, brings the process full circle by reining in the world’s most discarded waste item. Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.

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Cultivation Manufacturing Production Textiles 125

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

To make the best use of space, many farms will dispose of the blocks after a single flush, but each block is capable of several rounds of mushroom production. The vast majority—95 percent—of the mushroom production in the U.S. The bags are sliced open when the mycelium is ready, and out sprouts the first “flush” of mushrooms.

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Compost Farming Farming Logistics 138

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

The Chartered Institute of Waste Management states that, “Around 135,500 tonnes of agricultural plastic waste is produced each year in the UK,” and Defra contends that only 20-30% is turned into new products. Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch.

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Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

The Biodegradable Products Institute , which sets standards for such bags, stopped certifying pet bags for the US market for that reason. The finished product is used only on landscaping at the compost site, with no distribution to the public, says Seeman. Past batches intended for sale have tested safe.

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Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer 130

Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2024

There are more and more refill shops, which are basically markets where you can get food and other home products, from washing machine powder to dish soap and toothpaste, without all the plastic packaging, by being able to fill up your own containers and bring them home.” Reuse and refill map created by Plastic Free Future.

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Manufacturing Food Straw Production 117

Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

Now, despite all the prior momentum, none of the four largest chicken producers are exclusively practicing “no antibiotics ever” production. Now, despite all the prior momentum, none of them are exclusively practicing “no antibiotics ever” production. This matters because ionophores are also used routinely in beef and pork production.

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Production Poultry Food Farming 144

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

A fertiliser is a substance which pushes the plant towards growth, healthiness and productivity. Agricultural products are especially improved by this chemical. Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? This is why Fertilising plants is an essential habit.

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Manure Compost Straw Fertilizer 98

Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

Soils with high concentrations of heavy metals and pollutants are not ideal for agricultural production. Finally, everyone gathered around a long table covered in sterilized straw and learned how to inoculate different substrates with fungi spawn. A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw.

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Straw Greenhouse Livestock Farming 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

If the end game is simply more mass production and consumption, with the thought that all of this material will quickly degrade or find its way to recycling, our oceans and landfills of trash will only grow. The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 116

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To keep product in supply, she began asking other sheep farmers in her area if they had any fleeces they weren’t using. Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. Today, she has a flock of 25 sheep, mostly Navajo-Churros, animals not common in Canada.

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Processing Fertilizer Nutrient Pollution Ranching 127

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Farmers Michael Walton, Graham Robson, Nigel Moore and David and Annabel Stanners already farm very sustainably and extensively, but only a small section of the land can be used for feed production, the rest is too steep, exposed and wet. Walton also spends £15,000 on straw and he has to pay £20,000 in land rent.

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 69

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

David narrowed his eyes beneath his wide-brimmed straw hat and scanned the plain of yellow esparto waving in the hot wind. The three sit down together to talk about their shared experiences, the importance of reviving the wool trade and the slowly disappearing practice of transhumance and its value to biodiversity.

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Arable Land Straw Marketing Manure 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Using conservation tillage involves covering at least 30% of soil surface with crop residue and/or straw following planting. No-till farming leaves the soil surface undisturbed by tillage and crop residue is left on the soil surface. The Census shows that between the 2017 and 2022 Census, the US lost approximately 1.8

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 94

Modern Farmer

JULY 22, 2024

Then, in 2021, the city changed the rules about farming and Owczarski went from having more than an acre in production to having about three city blocks. That was the last straw for Owczarski. During the pandemic, Owczarski saw a noticeable increase in need and a decrease in formal support. Photography by Monica Owczarski. “We

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Food Farming Farming Distribution 93

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Practitioners see the farm as a closed, biodiverse ecosystem that requires internal inputswhich can come from the manure of ruminants raised on the farm, or from teas made from plants grown and animal products present on the farmto nourish and feed itself. Photography by David Fritz Goeppinger. The post Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing.

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Farming Farming Construction Harvest 63

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The canvas covers a spacious area with deep straw bedding, and towards the back is a good sized ‘run’ with one corner designated by the inhabitants as the ‘toilet’ – pigs are very clean and don’t soil their resting and feeding area. The butchers cut and portion the meat, cure bacon, prepare sausages, burger patties and other products.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

However, with the right amendments and management practices, sandy soils can be transformed into productive and sustainable growing mediums. Organic mulches such as straw, grass clippings, or wood chips gradually decompose, adding organic matter to the soil and improving its structure over time.

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Manure Compost Fertilizer Straw 52

Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

It can seem difficult when so many products and packaging involve plastic, but there are practical ways to reduce plastic use. Opting for reusable alternatives such as tote bags, metal water bottles, and reusable metal straws makes a difference. You can also look up recipes for DIY (Do It Yourself) hygiene and cleaning products.

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Supply Chain Food Production Textiles 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

The biodiversity generated by the farm’s productivity exists together with the biodiversity that flourishes naturally, they are not mutually exclusive – our traditionally managed hay meadows are alive at the moment with invertebrates, birds and mammals.

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Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought. She had time to create value-added products such as dried peppers and tea blends, which she tucked into CSA boxes. The farm’s 25-acre production site is dotted with five high tunnels totaling roughly 20,000 square feet.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. Instead, they are undertaken on land that has been degraded by decades of continuous arable production. The first products were just to control mildew.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. Of the almost 540,000 acres in production in Imperial County, less than 10 percent, or just under 46,000, are organic.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. And despite an abundance of optimism in recent years, countless efforts to shift more domestic production toward grass-fed have failed.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to win swing votes in the shale-boom heartland of Pennsylvania, she has reversed course on her past opposition to fracking, and she has proudly touted the record levels of oil and gas production seen under the current administration. Trump-era tariff fights during the U.S. grocery store prices.

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Food Production Greenhouse Construction 51