Entries by Tracy Mumma

Videos Address Organic Almond Orchard Weed Control

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Two new videos in SARE’s Manage Weeds on Your Farm series explore organic almond-grove weed control on Burroughs Family Farm’s 1,200-acre orchard in Denair, California. In Ecological Weed Management at Burroughs Family Orchards, Benina Montes, who manages the property with her parents, shares how consistent vegetative cover paired with seasonal sheep grazing is used to […]

John May Farm Safety Fund

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Applications are accepted year-round. The New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health’s John May Farm Safety Fund provides 1:1 matching grants up to $5,000 to small and mid-sized farm operations in New York for repairs and upgrades that make for a safer workplace.

Floating Dairy Offers Approach to Resilient Local Food Production

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In Rotterdam, a high-tech floating microdairy offers a new take on local food production, reports the Guardian. The dairy consists of nearly nearly 10,000 square feet of space floating on pontoons that includes space for feeding and milking its 40 cows, milk-processing and cheesemaking facilities, and a space to age cheese. The cows are able […]

Southern SARE Sustainable Agriculture Leadership Program Seeks Nominations

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The Southern region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE) program is seeking nominations for its Sustainable Agriculture Leadership Program for summer 2023. This program provides sponsorship funds (up to $3,000) to support sustainable agriculture education and training activities throughout the Southern region. The sponsorship funds education and training activities to help farmers, particularly historically underserved […]

Cooperative Agreement to Improve Soil Health Tools

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American Farmland Trust (AFT) and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service have signed a two-year, $2 million cooperative agreement to further develop and improve AFT’s soil health economic and environmental tools, including three Soil Health Economic Calculators. AFT announced that it will create a Soil Health Economics Accelerator Team, expanding the existing team by hiring five […]