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  • Vertical Farms Expand as Demand for Year-Round Produce Grows

    Amy Zipkin

    April 06, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in investing in indoor vertical farms as a way to combat supply chain disruptions and grow crop yields in a changing climate. A number of these farms are opening in the coming years throughout the United States and the industry is expected to grow to $9.7 billion worldwide by 2026. However, running an indoor vertical farm does have some technological limits and can result in high energy costs.

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  • Lessons from a 74-year-old farmer who switched to organic sugarcane farming

    Sanket Jain

    March 18, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Kolhapur, Maharashtra

    After realizing that his soil was becoming more saline after repeated uses of chemical fertilizer, a farmer in India made the switch to organic farming with the hopes of saving his crops. By switching to organic farming he has a lower crop yield than he would by using chemicals, but he is hopeful others will see the benefits of this method.

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  • Can Small Seaweed Farms Help Kelp Scale Up?

    Lynn Fantom

    March 16, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Atlantic Sea Farms strives to create sustainable ocean livelihoods by growing seaweed, which is good for both people and the planet. It's nutritionally dense, provides an extra source of revenue for fishermen, and is environmentally low impact. Ongoing studies also indicate it might absorb carbon dioxide in the ocean and tamp down ocean acidification. In 2018, Atlantic Sea Farms was producing 30,000 wet pounds of seaweed a year but expects a harvest of 1.2 million pounds this year, making it the largest in the U.S.

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  • Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

    Tatenda Chitagu

    March 15, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Bikita

    With the help of community projects and organizations, farmers in Bikita, Zimbabwe, are transitioning back to growing traditional small grains after hybrid maize crops led to disappointing results.

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  • Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?

    Luke Peterson

    February 25, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers in Utah practice no-till farming to improve soil health and water retention amid an ongoing drought.

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  • Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

    Kasturi Das

    January 07, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Assam

    Farmers and scientists in Assam, India, are creating artificial nest boxes for barn owls to help conserve and increase the population while reducing farmers’ use of chemicals to control pests.

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  • Is the Future of Big Dairy Regenerative?

    Gosia Wozniacka

    September 08, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Several big food corporations like Danone and General Mills are working with local dairy producers to launch soil health programs that would help reduce their carbon footprint. For example, Danone is supporting 34 dairy farms to transition their operations to more regenerative practices. While it remains unclear if their efforts will reduce carbon emissions from dairy farms, early results show they are reducing soil erosion, improving water retention, and using less synthetic fertilizers.

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  • The Nation's First Regenerative Dairy Works with Nature to Heal the Soil—at Scale

    Gosia Wozniacka

    September 07, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Crescent City, California

    The Alexandre Family Farm in California made the switch to regenerative agriculture as a way to improve their soil health and improve the quality of their dairy operations. They are part of a growing number of individual dairies across the country that are embracing organic farming and are becoming “certified regenerative” as a way to build relationships with consumers and retailers on their own.

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  • How Kansas ranchers and the land benefit from going back to the way of the bison

    Michael Pearce

    August 03, 2021 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    In Kansas, a group of younger ranchers are shifting away from decades long, traditional, ranching practices and instead using methods synched with nature. Changes include things like burning the pasture to clear dead grass in the spring, instead of burning in the summer. Research shows summer burns save millions in operating costs and it's actually a long-held practice by indigenous people before settlers arrived. The ranchers are also changing how they graze and spray, methods that use less pesticides and increase wildlife.

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  • The Farmer Trying to Save Italy's Ancient Olive Trees

    Agostino Petroni

    April 29, 2021 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: Italy, Gagliano del Capo, Puglia

    An imported strain of bacteria is threatening to destroy olive trees in Italy that produce about 12 percent of the world’s olive oil. An agronomist is working with other scientists to graft trees — taking a different kind of tree that could be resistant to the bacteria and inserting it into the trunk of an older tree. After years of trial and error, they’ve found some success. On one farm, 70 percent of the grafts used have survived. But conspiracy theories and financial difficulties have made it a challenge to have a coordinated response to the problem.

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