Acre Construction Pesticide 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 9, 2024
And, as the increasingly salty sea recedes, tens of thousands more acres of playa will be exposedas will decades of pesticides already trapped in the sediments from past farm runoff. And, as playa stabilization and habitat construction projects get underway, some critical data simply arent being gathered.
The Equation
MAY 13, 2024
Especially when it means I can breathe outside because there is no pesticide drift, wildfire smoke, vehicle exhaust, or pungent odors. In addition, Merced County applies more than 10 million pounds of pesticides per year that contribute to the area’s poor air quality. I am into air quality. These particles are categorized by size.
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Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 5, 2023
It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water. This wasn’t always the case.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.
Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on.
Sustainable Food Trust
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.
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