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  • Planning, Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Energy Best Practices for Agriculture

    December 26, 2025 • NYSERDA

    All farms need a plan for managing energy - these 'best practice' guides help farm businesses understand the opportunities they have to implement various energy management strategies on the farm. This improves resiliency and reduces emissions for farms of any scale.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Energy Strategies for Farm Resilience in the Northeast

    November 23, 2019 • USDA Northeast Climate Hub

    Participants learn how energy-focused farm design and operations improve resilience and long-term viability, with practical strategies for farm energy management.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Farm Energy, Carbon, and Greenhouse Gases

    September 4, 2025 • David Wolfe, Jeff Beem-Miller, Allison Chatrchyan, and Lauren Chambliss • Cornell Cooperative Extension

    This fact sheet covers energy efficiency, renewable energy, and nitrogen fertilizer management strategies that reduce costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate impacts.

  • Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Farmer Led Innovations in Reduced Tillage Vegetables

    November 20, 2025 • American Farmland Trust

    Farmer-Led Innovations for Reduced Tillage (FLI) cultivates co-learning and innovation among organic vegetable farmers in New England. This site features the trials of a small cohort of innovative farmers trialing reduced tillage practices.

  • Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Farming & Climate Change: Intervale Community Farm

    September 4, 2025 • UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture

    Andy Jones of Intervale Community Farm shares strategies for floodplain farming, including water management, soil protection, cover crops, extended wet periods, irrigation, and climate adaptation.

  • Adaptation Practices, Planning

    Farming Success in an Uncertain Climate

    September 4, 2025 • David Wolfe, Jeff Beem-Miller, Lauren Chambliss, Allison Chatrchyan, and Holly Menninger. • Cornell Cooperative Extension

    This fact sheet outlines climate change challenges such as flooding, heat stress, and pest pressure, with practical farm adaptation strategies.

  • Climate Impacts, Adaptation Practices

    Farming the Floodplain: Trade-Offs and Opportunities

    January 9, 2020 • Rachel Schattman, Benjamin P. Warner, and Christine E. Hatch • USDA Northeast Climate Hub

    This two-page research summary addresses the trade-offs rural communities face when increased flooding damages public and private land, and makes farming more risky. The authors also provide a link for teaching resources on this topic.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    Getting Started With Drip Irrigation: Components and Costs

    September 27, 2019 • Rachel Schattman and Chloe Boutelle • UVM Extension

    This fact sheet presents an overview of the most common components and options in drip irrigation systems, accompanied by estimated costs.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Growing Day-Neutral Strawberries in New Hampshire: Variety Selection & Production Tips

    November 23, 2019 • Becky Sideman and Kaitlyn Orde • UNH Extension

    This guide is intended to summarize our experiences with day-neutral strawberry varieties at the University of New Hampshire and to share data from our trials as a benchmark for day-neutral performance in the region.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Guide to Preparing High Tunnels for Extreme Weather

    September 4, 2025 • Chris Callahan • UVM Extension

    Grower experiences highlight how to build and modify high tunnels to withstand extreme weather while protecting crops and extending seasons, from the growers of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association (VVBGA).

  • Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Hang onto your soil! Reduced Tillage At Scale

    November 20, 2025 • Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association

    This webinar explores reduced tillage practices, equipment, and techniques that improve soil health and save labor at all farm scales. Speakers: Julie Fine, American Farmland Trust; Natalie Lounsbury, University of New Hampshire.

  • Adaptation Practices

    High Tunnels and Other Season Extension Techniques

    September 4, 2025 • Vern Grubinger • Northeast SARE

    A guide to high tunnel and greenhouse production, covering structure types, fertility management, variety choice, pest and water management, economics, and post-harvest handling.

  • Adaptation Practices

    High Tunnels at Delaware State University

    November 23, 2019 • USDA Northeast Climate Hub

    The Delaware State University (DSU) Outreach & Research Center provides a demonstration of high tunnel designs and best practices for small farmers to protect and improve their operations in a changing climate.

  • Adaptation Practices

    High Tunnels Help RI Farmers Adapt to Climate Variability

    November 23, 2019 • University of Rhode Island

    A summary of how a handful of RI vegetable farms used high tunnels to adapt to a changing climate, including season extension, summer shade, and protection from heavy rains.

  • Adaptation Practices

    How Does Tillage Intensity Affect Soil Organic Carbon?

    November 25, 2019 • Neal R. Haddaway, Katarina Hedlund, Louise E. Jackson, Thomas Kätterer, Emanuele Lugato, Ingrid K. Thomsen, Helene B. Jørgensen, and Per-Erik Isberg • Mistra EviEM

    A review of 351 studies looking at soil carbon sequestration under different long-term tillage management systems, from no-till to full tillage. Results show no-till systems increase soil carbon in upper layers over time, with limited impact on total soil profile carbon.

  • Climate Impacts, Adaptation Practices

    How to Reduce Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle

    September 4, 2025 • University of Missouri Extension

    Outlines best management practices to reduce heat stress in dairy cattle, helping maintain milk production, fertility, and animal welfare during hot weather.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices, Funding, Climate Impacts

    Impacts of Increasing Annual Temperatures for New England Farms

    December 23, 2025 • Sara Keleman • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)

    This recording features a talk by Sara Keleman, who shares current data exploring climate trends and projected impacts on agriculture. At minute 1:10:10 Sara reviews several tools available for monitoring weather and implementing adaptive practices.

  • Adaptation Practices, Planning

    Irrigation Pays in Protecting Vegetable Crop Revenues in the Northeast U.S.

    November 23, 2019 • USDA Northeast Climate Hub

    A cost benefit analysis of irrigation at Intervale Community Farm in Burlington, VT, calculated using records from 2006 to 2016.

  • Adaptation Practices, Planning

    Irrigation Research at UD

    November 23, 2019 • USDA Northeast Climate Hub

    A case study on how researchers at the University of Delaware's Warrington Irrigation Research Farm are improving irrigation to boost crop yields and manage soil and water resources.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Kickstart Agroforestry

    January 8, 2026 • Regenerative Design Group

    This series of articles covers key topics for launching a new agroforestry project with a guided step-by-step process to evaluate your goals, assess the opportunities on your site, and get your trees off to the best possible start.

  • Adaptation Practices

    List of Alternative Crops and Enterprises for Small Farm Diversification

    September 4, 2025 • USDA National Agricultural Library

    A list of field crops, vegetables, fruits and nuts, horticultural/nursery crops, agroforestry/forestry products, livestock, and other accessible innovations for farmers exploring diversification.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Mowing a living aisle between rows of brassicas.

    Living Aisles in Diverse Vegetable Systems

    January 13, 2026 • Steffen Mirsky and Paulina Jenney • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    In this article, we highlight four case studies from farms of varying sizes and production goals to showcase the opportunities and challenges of adopting living aisle systems.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    Maine Climate and Ag Network

    November 21, 2019 • University of Maine

    This is a collection of tools, resources, publications, etc that help farmers in Maine adapt to the effects of climate change.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Managing Cover Crops Profitably

    September 4, 2025 • SARE

    This book explains is one of the best resources to help growers learn how to use cover crops reduce erosion, improve soil health, suppress weeds, manage nutrients, and increase farm profitability over time.