Accelerating Appalachia has launched its USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant-funded Building Soil, Building Equity Initiative. The Farmer Fund will incentivize up to 400 producers in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Southern Ohio, and Northern Georgia to build soil health and expand conservation farming. The program will provide direct incentives up to $1,000 […]

A major global study led by the University of Copenhagen and University of Hohenheim revealed significant benefits from diversified agriculture. The four-year study published in Science collected data from 24 research projects on more than 20 different types of diversification practices, including crop rotation, hedgerows, biochar application, mulching, livestock diversification, and water conservation. Researchers found […]

USDA Economic Research Service published Farmland Rental and Conservation Practice Adoption, a report that explores patterns across cropland owner-operators and cropland renters in the adoption of conservation tillage, cover cropping, and six permanent structural practices (riparian buffers, filter strips, field borders, terraces, grass waterways, and contour farming). Contrary to popular belief, this study found little […]

A study by a University of British Columbia researcher, published in Environmental Research Letters, sheds light on the link between diminishing numbers of wild pollinators and reduced farm productivity. Matthew Mitchell and his colleagues are deeply concerned about declining populations of wild bees—mason bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees and bumble bees—and other wild pollinators like […]