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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Dynamic Cropping Systems: Gabe Browns Story
2017-03-21 16:41:18| National Farmers Union
By Laura Lengnick, founder of Cultivating Resilience, LLC This story is excerpted from Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate (New Society Publishers, 2015). Resilient Agriculture explores climate risk, resilience, and the future of food through the adaptation stories of 25 award-winning sustainable farmers and ranchers growing fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and livestock across America. […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Dynamic Cropping Systems: Russ Zenners Story
2017-03-13 18:05:12| National Farmers Union
By Laura Lengnick, founder of Cultivating Resilience, LLC This story is excerpted from Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate (New Society Publishers, 2015). Resilient Agriculture explores climate risk, resilience, and the future of food through the adaptation stories of 25 award-winning sustainable farmers and ranchers growing fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, and livestock across America. […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Dynamic Cropping Systems: Nash Hubers Story
2017-02-27 19:03:50| National Farmers Union
By Laura Lengnick, founder of Cultivating Resilience, LLC For more than forty years, Nash Huber has produced organic vegetables and fruits, food and feed grains, pork and poultry, and a variety of vegetable and cover crop seeds on 450 acres of prime farmland on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula. Much of Nashs land is leased, and most of […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Dynamic Cropping Systems
2017-02-21 19:54:46| National Farmers Union
By Laura Lengnick, found of Cultivating Resilience, LLC Some of Americas best farmers and ranchers are innovating more flexible crop rotations that allow them to fine-tune crop choices in response to increasing weather variability. This kind of crop rotation strategy, called dynamic cropping, is an ecologically-based management strategy that optimizes production through the use of flexible […]
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What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change? Developing Protocols for Environmental Markets
2017-02-13 16:09:28| National Farmers Union
By Erica Ford, Program Manager for Farmer Veteran Coalition Relatively few range or pasture land projects are producing marketable greenhouse gas (GHG) credits, and producer awareness of environmental markets is extremely low. Through a U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG), Farmer Veteran Coalition, a national nonprofit organization that […]
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