Articles Tagged with ''sustainable farming''

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General Mills, McDonald’s, Cargill and more form Ecosystem Services Market Consortium to promote land stewardship

This program enables and encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt and sustain conservation management practices to improve soil health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve related water quality and reduce water use.
February 26, 2019
Ten private-sector companies and non-profit organizations announced their intent to form the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) to promote land stewardship to build healthy soils, soil carbon sequestration and water conservation on the globe’s working lands.
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Smithfield Foods achieves industry-leading environmental commitment by engaging grain supply chain in sustainable farming practices

Grain production is the first step in the vertically integrated company’s supply chain, making this accomplishment one of the key ways Smithfield is working toward its goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2025 throughout its entire supply chain.
February 25, 2019
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., engaged 80% of its grain supply chain, which is used to feed the company’s hogs, in farming practices that are both sustainable and reduce the cost of production for grain farmers.
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GrowPod

Transportable micro-farm

February 22, 2019
GP Solutions, Corona, Calif., developed GrowPod, a modular, scalable, transportable, indoor "micro-farm" that grows high-quality, pathogen-free foods using a fraction of resources required for conventional farming.
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AC Goatham & Son expands fruit growing farm

With the addition of this new farm, the business will plant around 380,000 new fruit trees this year.
February 20, 2019
AC Goatham & Son, UK, acquired its 28th farm in Kent, UK, a 180-acre farm taking the total land it farms to 2,830 acres, with a further 2,000 acres farmed by its partner growers also in Kent.
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Study: Lab-grown meat’s promise for cutting climate warming depends on an energy revolution

A comparison of the greenhouse gases produced by lab-grown and farm-raised beef in the current energy system suggests that the benefits of reducing methane could be outweighed by increased CO2.
February 19, 2019
Over the long term, cultured meat production methods requiring large energy inputs could increase global warming more than some types of cattle farming if energy systems remain dependent on fossil fuels, according to what is said to be a first-of-its-kind study from the LEAP (Livestock, Environment and People) program at the Oxford Martin School, UK.
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Living Greens Farm new grow room

Living Greens Farm expands grow room for vertical plane aeroponic farming

Aeroponics is the practice of suspending a plant’s roots in the air and spraying them with a nutrient-rich solution instead of burying them in soil.
February 15, 2019
Living Greens Farm, a Faribault, Minn.-based vertical, indoor aeroponic farm that provides fresh salads, microgreens and herbs year-round, is set to become what is said to be the largest vertical plane aeroponic farm in the world.
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Pete's Living Greens new packaging

Pete’s Living Greens undergoes brand refresh

The introduction of the simplified Pete’s name will happen concurrently with refreshed packaging.
February 5, 2019
Hollandia Produce, the Carpinteria, Calif.-based owner of the Pete’s Living Greens brand, is undergoing a brand refresh, including a simplified name and new visual treatment of its packaging.
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Study shows France to be the world's most food sustainable country

China, the United States and Britain failed to make the Top 20 of 67 nations, which were graded on food waste, sustainable agriculture and health and nutrition.
February 1, 2019
France's aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it rank the world’s most food sustainable country for the second year in a row, according to an index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit, UK, and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, Italy.
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