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Albert Phelps
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Sustainable farming is exemplified with real progress through practice: productive agriculture needs a healthy environment. In parallel, a growing world population with evolving expectations needs farmers to produce more food. How can farmers increase production while at the same time protecting biodiversity, water and land resources? How can a farm be environmentally sound, socially responsible, and economically viable?
Sustainable farming has to be more than just a theory on paper; to come to life, it needs expertise, practical examples, and a space for farmers to exchange experiences. The BASF Farm Network, established in 2002, brings together growers and experts on more than 70 working farms around Europe to help farmers meet this challenge. In this context, BASF works with independent farmers, organizations for environmental protection, universities, research institutes, and companies providing farming innovations.
While it is true that farmers face similar challenges worldwide, a one size fits all approach does not work. Some solutions have to be tailored to meet local conditions, like climate and soil. That is precisely why BASF partners with local experts, who understand the issues on the ground. Our remit is clear: we want to make it easy for farmers to implement sustainable measures on the farm, increase their profits and yields while protecting and conserving biodiversity, water, soil and other precious resources.
Everyone is welcome to visit our Farm Network and witness first-hand the positive impact of sustainable agricultural practices. Each farm demonstrates in a practical way how modern farming systems can deliver high yields while protecting biodiversity and natural resources.
Independent experts evaluate the progress of each farm in the Farm Network. Data tracked includes the number of birds, pollinators, and other beneficial insects living on the farm. Water management measures and sustainable soil treatments are also carefully monitored.
The goals of the Demonstration Farm Network are to highlight conservation systems that build soil health and benefit water quality, with on-farm research opportunities to evaluate and demonstrate conservation practices, and to quantify their economic and environmental benefits. The network serves as a platform to share technology, information and lessons learned with farmers, agribusiness, conservation agencies, landowners and the public, and to facilitate farmer-to-farmer discussions and learning opportunities related to conservation practices and their impacts.
Northeastern Wisconsin's Door-Kewaunee Watershed is now home to a network of farms that will demonstrate the best conservation practices to protect the Great Lakes. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service are tackling this effort in cooperation with Peninsula Pride Farms, a farmer-led organization. Groundwater and surface water quality are top priorities for the farmers of the Door-Kewaunee Watershed Demonstration Farm Network, who contend with shallow, fractured bedrock that can provide a direct path for contaminants.
The network will test how well specific conservation practice systems reduce erosion and sedimentation, control phosphorus runoff, increase organic matter, and improve soil health in these conditions. This initiative will involve many partnerships to provide educational opportunities for the public, farmers, land managers, agribusiness, natural resource agencies, and research entities.
Each of these farms will play a significant role in testing, demonstrating, and sharing information about leading-edge practices and technologies applied on their farms including cover crops, low disturbance manure injection and reduced tillage as well as other innovative practices that help increase organic matter, improve soil health and reduce soil erosion. To learn more about the farms: Demo Farm Bios
The purpose of the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) Program is to establish a network that connects individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs. The establishment of a network that assists farmers and ranchers in time of stress can offer a conduit to improving behavioral health awareness, literacy, and outcomes for agricultural producers, workers and their families.
Applications may only be submitted by a collaborative state; tribal; local or regionally-based network, or partnership of qualified public and/or private entities, as determined by the Secretary. These collaborations may include the following entities: Indian tribes (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)); State departments of agriculture, State cooperative extension services; and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Applications may only be submitted by a collaborative state; tribal; local or regionally-based network, or partnership of qualified public and/or private entities, as determined by the Secretary. These collaborations may include the following entities: Indian tribes (as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304)); State departments of agriculture, State cooperative extension services; and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). FRSAN-SDA applicants fund eligible State Departments of Agriculture.
The long-term goal of the FRSAN projects is to establish a Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network that provides stress assistance programs to individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations on a regional basis. Network members must initiate, expand, or sustain programs that provide professional agricultural behavioral health counseling and referral for other forms of assistance as necessary through the following:
Reviewers from universities, government, community-based organizations, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and from the military, veteran, and farming/agribusiness community will provide peer assessment and recommend applications for funding.
Projects are required to acknowledge USDA-NIFA funding in all presentations, publications, news releases, etc. Projects are required to collect and submit outcome-based data to USDA-NIFA through annual reports. The annual Project Directors and Evaluators meeting provides opportunities for networking and sharing of best practices.
Local and National Distribution Centers- for local DC's we can arrange deliveries from the farm to your DC or we can aggregate multiple farm products at our warehouse and palletize a custom order for each of your locations. For our national customers, we will identify the local farm in your region, handle the invoicing, and coordinate the logistics to your regional DC. Contact us for more details.
Farm Tours- Looking for a team building event? A working farm is a great location. We've held farm tours at a specialty potato farm, an organic citrus ranch, and we've toured an herb and lettuce farm.. These are hands-on tours so wear the appropriate clothing and footwear because the team will be going into the fields.
Improving water quality in Ohio through agriculture starts with proven conservation systems and methods. The Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network aims to show farmers what tools and practices they can implement on their farms to limit their impact on downstream water quality.
On this episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, we talk with Mike Thompson and Bryan Randell from Indigo Ag on their carbon programs available for farmers across the state. This episode is the fourth in a series that will help understand the breadth and depth of carbon program options for Ohio farmers.
On this episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, we talk with Aldyen Donnelly, co-founder of Nori Inc. about all things carbon and what programming Nori offers for farmers interested in carbon sequestration. This episode is the third in a series that will help understand the breadth and depth of carbon program options for Ohio farmers.
Join your fellow farmer in an online community just for Nevada Agriculture. This Network continues the legacy of farmer cooperation and innovation in Grange Halls, homes and cafes from generations into the past to support thriving farm communities for generations to come.
The California Farm Demonstration Network is a collaboration among California farmers, ranchers, agricultural technical assistance providers, and statewide agriculture organizations working together to scale the adoption of conservation practices toward a shared goal of resilient and thriving farms and ranches.
The California Farm Demonstration Network hosted a four-part series on California soils. This series featured four speakers, each with extensive knowledge of California soils through the lens of farming and agriculture. Speakers covered various topics, including composting, orchard recycling, soil sampling, testing for microbial dynamics, and more.
We envision farmers earning a fair and just wage for the hard work they do producing the amazing food we eat. We envision everyone having access to healthy food, every day. We see food as medicine, wildlife coexisting with agriculture, and clean water and air as a right for all. But this vision involves a different way of farming. This is not the vision of industrial agriculture; this is regenerative agriculture.
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