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Using farmland for solar arrays has gotten growing support in recent years as a clean and green solution, but Lancaster Farming's Tom Venesky has his doubts.
Conservation and Renewable Energy News
Farmers in Clinton County are speaking out about several local ordinances that they claim are hurting the area's agriculture.
Caleb and Alice Crothers efforts to revitalize the family dairy farm in Maryland with a focus on sustainability have earned them the 2022 Maryland Leopold Conservation Award.
North Jersey successfully preserved the 570-acre Buckhorn Creek Farm in Warren County from warehouse development through community efforts and government negotiations, securing the land for agriculture at a cost of $27.2 million.
For the first time, a Pennsylvania area important to military and conservationists alike has received a federal designation. Kittatinny Ridge has been designated a sentinel landscape.
Pennsylvania is offering $1.5 million more than it did the previous fiscal year for conservation research aimed at helping the state’s farmers improve water quality and soil health along with profitability.
Already well known through social media, Arizona lettuce farmer Jon Dismore stood ready to talk sustainability and share his experiences Monday on the National Mall.
Agricultural lands, even preserved farms, are not completely safeguarded from being taken by eminent domain.
Maryland crop farmers and a sociologist take on the challenges of managing soil inputs as weather patterns change.
About $25 million is available for the more than 1,600 Organic Valley farm members in 30 states across the country, including more than 275 farms in the Chesapeake bay watershed.
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