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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education [SARE] Projects
Check out the new bulletin from SARE:
Clean Energy Farming: Cutting Costs, Improving Efficiencies, Harnessing Renewables, features innovative SARE-funded research and examples of farmers who are improving energy efficiency while saving money, implementing farming practices that both save energy and protect natural resources, and producing and using renewable fuels.
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UPDATES:
Grassroots Guide to the 2008 Farm Bill Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
The 2008 Farm Bill contains many good programs that can scale up existing alternatives to agri-industrialism or be the seeds for sowing new sustainable agriculture systems and practices. While we celebrate our wins in the 2008 Farm Bill, SAC will continue to fight for deeper structural change in our farming and food system. SAC is committed to helping farmers, ranchers, and their organizations take advantage of good farm bill programs, while at the same time building the capacity of grassroots organizations to equip farmers, conservationists, rural advocates, and food activists with the tools they need to participate in the policy-making process and help win greater farm and food policy reform in the coming years.
2007 Farm Bill
After months of work and input from National Campaign partners, the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and others, the Bioenergy Crop Transition Assistance Program [pdf] that emerged in the Chairman's mark was virtually unrecognizable from earlier drafts. As first conceived, the BCTA was to spur the production of a variety of biomass energy crops with the highest benefit possible to wildlife, air, soil, and water quality. Producers within bioenergy cropsheds would be eligible for incentive payments for producing cellulosic crops other than Title I commodity crops. Producers could produce perennials or annuals if raised in a resource conserving crop rotation. Source: SustainableAgriculture.net
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education [SARE] Projects
Check out the new bulletin from SARE:
Clean Energy Farming: Cutting Costs, Improving Efficiencies, Harnessing Renewables, features innovative SARE-funded research and examples of farmers who are improving energy efficiency while saving money, implementing farming practices that both save energy and protect natural resources, and producing and using renewable fuels.
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UPDATES:
Grassroots Guide to the 2008 Farm Bill Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
The 2008 Farm Bill contains many good programs that can scale up existing alternatives to agri-industrialism or be the seeds for sowing new sustainable agriculture systems and practices. While we celebrate our wins in the 2008 Farm Bill, SAC will continue to fight for deeper structural change in our farming and food system. SAC is committed to helping farmers, ranchers, and their organizations take advantage of good farm bill programs, while at the same time building the capacity of grassroots organizations to equip farmers, conservationists, rural advocates, and food activists with the tools they need to participate in the policy-making process and help win greater farm and food policy reform in the coming years.
2007 Farm Bill
After months of work and input from National Campaign partners, the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and others, the Bioenergy Crop Transition Assistance Program [pdf] that emerged in the Chairman's mark was virtually unrecognizable from earlier drafts. As first conceived, the BCTA was to spur the production of a variety of biomass energy crops with the highest benefit possible to wildlife, air, soil, and water quality. Producers within bioenergy cropsheds would be eligible for incentive payments for producing cellulosic crops other than Title I commodity crops. Producers could produce perennials or annuals if raised in a resource conserving crop rotation. Source: SustainableAgriculture.net
IN A PERFECT WORLD.........
our research on regional sustainability (100 Mile Diet), started us thinking if biofuel from plant oils becomes a success, there will be a great need to maintain a healthy balance of food, energy source, and good soil (crop rotation). In a perfect world, our solution could be a farm policy to allow any farmer to grow an energy crop every 4th year, raking in the $$cash$$ that would sustain a healthy 3 years of food crops. This would give them a comfortable living -- out of debt! -- and would take care of the country’s food problems, keeping the cost down. Once again we could have family farms AND be rid of our dependency on oil. So, anyone got any ideas on this?
Let us know what you think!
our research on regional sustainability (100 Mile Diet), started us thinking if biofuel from plant oils becomes a success, there will be a great need to maintain a healthy balance of food, energy source, and good soil (crop rotation). In a perfect world, our solution could be a farm policy to allow any farmer to grow an energy crop every 4th year, raking in the $$cash$$ that would sustain a healthy 3 years of food crops. This would give them a comfortable living -- out of debt! -- and would take care of the country’s food problems, keeping the cost down. Once again we could have family farms AND be rid of our dependency on oil. So, anyone got any ideas on this?
Let us know what you think!
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