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Helen Atthowe, Missoula County Horticulturist (1995-2010) http://www.veganicpermaculture.com speaks about a variety of experiments with living mulch. She covers minimum till, no till and full till.

Helen talks about creating beneficial insect habitats: bees, parasitic wasps, (in april she was experiencing a 1-to-1 ratio of parasitized aphids to non parasitized aphids), spiders, ground beetles …

Broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage yields are explored. Using three foot wide raised beds.

The minimum till was done with a single shank chisel plow followed by a light tilling with a tiller/rotovator.

Living mulches experimented with include clover which contributes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but also competes with the production crop. The trick is to find the balance and get the best of all worlds.

Music by Jimmy Pardo

Duration : 0:7:47

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Sustainable farming and sustainability seem like lofty, out of reach goals. Julie Jensen, owner of Echoview Farm in Asheville, NC, describes small steps people can take to help support sustainable farming and sustainability. Actions such as buying unprocessed foods and growing your own garden, even if it as small as herbs on a windowsill, make a a measurable difference in the effort to sustain and nourish the land.

Duration : 0:1:5

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http://www.worldwideaquaculture.com – We are a international consulting and business development company working with sustainable aquaculture. We conduct research, provide education and promote entreprenuerial business development. Call us at 303-495-3705 to get more information or email us at worldwideaquaculture@gmail.com.

Duration : 0:1:50

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Tropical Aquaculture Products, Inc. is a sales, distribution, marketing and accounting operation of a growing cooperative of aquaculture farms. By focusing on quality and continuity of supply, and ensuring world-class customer service, Tropical Aquaculture have consistently met the growing needs of our wholesale customers.

Duration : 0:4:53

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Reporter Jason Shoultz visits the Adams Cattle Ranch in Florida where the family patriarch, 82 year old Bud Adams, is celebrated for his wildlife photographs as well as his prime cattle. Reporter Sarah Gardner visits an unusual farming operation in Ohio where state prison inmates play a major role in bringing crops and cattle to market. Reporter Akiba Howard visits a century old citrus operation in Californias central valley where four generations harvest citrus from 125 thousand trees!
Reporter Yolanda Vazquez takes us to Tennessee where a hobby that started with raising goats has now turned into an award winning artisanal cheese business.

The Monsanto Company – http://www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http://www.fb.org make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.

Duration : 0:26:46

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Humane and sustainable pig farming. For more information please visit Compassion in World Farming’s web pages about Good Agricultural Practice for Pig farming at http://www.ciwf.org.uk/resources/education/good_agricultural_practice/default.aspx

Part 2 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1cUO3QlULE

Part 1 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNn3qg1RAE

Pig Production is the first part of a vital new series of educational resources for agriculture, veterinary and animal science courses.

Future resources will cover other species and farming practices such as broiler chickens (chickens bred for meat).

The resources are based on a combination of animal welfare scienceand the practical experience of farmers. For each species this will include a fully-referenced book incorporating case studies exemplifying good practice.

GAP will be a valuable tool for lecturers, educationalists, vets,farmers, students of agricultural and veterinary science and for all who make decisions which affect the welfare of farm animals.

Good Agricultural Practice is a concept evolved by the Food andAgriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). Good agricultural practices:

produce safe, healthy, high quality food for consumers

provide jobs with fair incomes for rural communities

are socially and environmentally sustainable

provide high standards of animal welfare.

The aim of Good Agricultural Practice should be to achieve development that is both humane and sustainable.

Duration : 0:7:14

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Takes on myths about modern agriculture perpetuated by films like Food Inc & popular media, presents facts about ‘factory farming’, corn, organic food & pesticides, biotechnology, livestock production & climate change, meat consumption and climate change .

( a longer slower version of ‘A Guide to Sustainable Agriculture’)

This provides an example of the impacts of economic growth and technological change, the invisible green hand.

Duration : 0:8:14

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As women assume new roles in farming and ranching across the heartland, a coalition of women gets together each year to find new ways to tell agriculture’s story to the rest of us. For more of Episode 319 visit: http://tinyurl.com/5r5unp. The Monsanto Company – http://www.monsanto.com and the American Farm Bureau Federation – http://www.fb.org make presentation of America’s Heartland possible.

Duration : 0:3:8

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This talk is one in a series from the 2010 EcoFarm Preconference: The Business of Sustainability. The PreConference was organized by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz, and sponsored in part by the Wallace Center at Winrock International as part of its Community Food Enterprise project. Additional resources, including the complete PreConference agenda and several of the presenters powerpoint presentations are available on the CASFS website.

More information:

CASFS: casfs.ucsc.edu/
Community Food Enterprise: communityfoodenterprise.org
Wallace Center: wallacecenter.org/our-work

Duration : 0:15:51

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Introduction to the Sustainable Agriculture practices underpinning the Tasteback® principles as demonstrated on this North Queensland research property.

Duration : 0:4:55

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