sustainable agriculture News
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Mission markets(TM) signals focus on fast-growing sustainable agriculture sector through partnership with food marketmaker
After recent success in closing transactions on its Sustainable and Impact Investment Platform (SIIP), Mission Markets has recently established a key relationship with Food MarketMaker, one of the largest online databases for local state farmers with over 20,000 members. These types of partnerships will likely lead to adoption of the Mission Markets platform by the fast-growing sustainable ...
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Sustainable agricultural partnerships
American Business Conferences will be hosting its 4th in the global series of Sustainable Agriculture Summits in San Francisco on 10-11 August. This established forum where incisive and detailed strategies on how to measure and reduce water and carbon impacts throughout the agricultural supply chain is quickly filling up due to the exceptional value building qualities the summit promotes. ...
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Extension Agents Selected for Unique Sustainable Agriculture Fellowship
This summer, four innovative Extension educators joined the ranks of ag professionals chosen for the SARE/NACAA Sustainable Agriculture Fellows program. SARE Fellows receive hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture and alternative farming systems, unique networking opportunities and an understanding of the diverse nature of American agriculture. Selected from more than 40 applicants, the ...
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TIMAC AGRO Romania celebrates its 15th anniversary
A major player in plant nutrition, TIMAC AGRO România celebrates its 15th anniversary alongside Romanian farmers. Driven by passion, courage and ambition of all its teams, the subsidiary has been committed for 15 years to the development of sustainable ...
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Van Der Hoeven Brings New Dimension To Controlled Environment Agriculture By Opening Office In The United States
The world is increasingly realizing that we need to preserve our planet and that it requires a more sustainable approach on agriculture. Additionally, people across the globe deserve access to healthy food. The demand for locally grown and healthy food continues to grow in the U.S. as well. Moreover, the U.S. continues to be a strategic hub for global decision-making in Controlled Environment ...
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Reading the Farm: Ag Agents Learn About Sustainability as a System
Farmers and ranchers know that sustainable agriculture is defined by a system of connected parts rather than individual practices. Last month, the SARE/NACAA Fellows visited two diversified New Hampshire farms where this principle was reinforced through the Reading the Farm program. Reading the Farm encouraged Fellows to look at the farms as a sum of many parts. "Slowly taking an in-depth look ...
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New Organic Transition Business Planner Now Available
The booming profit potential of organic production has farmers, ranchers and food business owners nationwide switching to organic production. But successfully managing the risky multi-year transition requires careful business planning. Download Organic Transition: A Business Planner for Farmers, Ranchers and Food Entrepreneurs for free. SARE’s new Organic Transition: A Business Planner ...
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Find out what SARE is funding in your state
Did you know that since 1988 SARE has invested more than $211 million in 5,300 sustainable agriculture research and education projects across the United States? From Washington to Florida, Maine to Hawaii, SARE grants support projects on cover crops and diversified rotations, integrated pest management, pasture-based grazing, energy, marketing and much more. Discover SARE-funded projects in your ...
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Grasslands: The future of sustainable agriculture
Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture was written to increase our awareness of the vital role grass and grassland plants have in ensuring a sustainable future for American agriculture. Published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, the book's content is geared toward agriculturists, students, the ...
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Sustainable Agriculture to Promote Biodiversity
• Biodiversity affects key ecosystem services, such as the primary production of food for humans and the rest of nature, plus the recycling of nutrients and water. • One hectare of land contains a lot of biodiversity in the soil – equivalent to the weight of one cow of bacteria, two sheep of protozoa, and four rabbits of soil animals such as earthworms. The INSPIA* project is ...
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Sustainable agricultural partnerships summit 2010
Senior executives from across the industry will provide practical outputs and best practices on how to manage infiltration and soil water storage, new irrigation technologies, carbon sequestration and traceability solutions among other areas. It"s also the only Summit of its kind specially designed to include the active participation from a diverse range of growers and small-scale suppliers. ...
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TruLeaf Closes $8.5-million Round of Financing
TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Ltd. (TruLeaf), the indoor, multi-level farming company from Bible Hill, Nova Scotia has closed an $8.5-million equity-finance round. This funding will enable the company to continue its mission of becoming a global leader in vertical farming technology. TruLeaf develops sustainable farming systems that can be built anywhere that enable fresh, nutrient-dense, ...
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World Agri-Tech 2016: Technology Showcase Open for Submissions
The World Agri-Tech Investment Summit is now accepting applications for Technology Showcase presentations at the upcoming summit in London on November 2-3, 2016. If you’re looking for new investment in the agri-tech space, the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit offers a great opportunity to present your technology and introduce your team to an audience of potential investors and partners. ...
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International Year of Soils 2015: Healthy soils for a healthy life
Our soils are in danger because of expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use and management practices, pollution, overgrazing and climate change. The current rate of soil degradation threatens the capacity to meet the needs of future generations. As long as soils are at risk, sustainable agriculture, food security and the provision of ecosystem services are compromised ...
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Media Advisory for Wednesday: U.S. EPA Honors Dixon Ridge Farms With Award; News Media Tour Available
The U.S. Environmental Protection will be recognizing Dixon Ridge Farms in a Winters, Calif. environmental award ceremony. The Pacific Southwest Region’s 2012 Sustainable Agricultural Champion Award will be presented to the organic walnut farm’s founder, Russ Lester. WHO: Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator from San Francisco, Calif. Craig Hooks. U.S. ...
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CSIRO and Bayer to focus on sustainable crops
This collaboration will develop and apply models to assess the system-wide consequences of new-generation cereal crops in the face of global environmental and food security challenges. The project will assess the full environmental impact of the crops, including their influence on the carbon footprint of cereal production. This program will build on a long-term cereal research agreement between ...
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Innovation and collaboration in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture
On April 14-16, 2019 the biennial CROP Innovation & Business conference will take place in Amsterdam. During CROP Innovation & Business 2019 the most influential trends that will affect crop innovation and value chain strategies will be addressed including indoor farming, whole genome sequencing, artificial intelligence, precision agriculture, consolidation, economic growth and ...
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Tapping into the Power of Methane – Greenholm Farms
An article in The Western Producer on CBA member Greenholm Farms features the farm’s sustainability and digesters. The reuse of material is a key tenet of sustainability in agriculture, and Greenholm Farms, in Embro, Ont., just northwest of Woodstock, has taken that to heart. The owners, Gord and Laura Green, along with their son and business partner, Dave, have discovered that producing ...
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National Survey on Cover Crops Seeks Farmer Participation
Farmers are invited to share their thoughts on cover crops—whether or not they use cover crops themselves—in a national survey, now in its third year of collecting valuable data on the increasingly popular management practice. The results, which will be released this summer, will help growers, researchers, agricultural advisors, ag retailers and policymakers more effectively address ...
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FAO highlights the potential of South-South cooperation
FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva highlighted the potential of South-South Cooperation and reiterated FAO's commitment "to strengthen and channel exchanges between Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim to adopt, adapt and broaden best practices that promote agricultural development." Graziano da Silva's comments came during the second Sub-Saharan and Argentinean ...
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