World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion. Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “ Farmers don’t like “paying by acre”, incentives are perverse.

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Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If they could survive heavy dousing, writes Barstow: [Farmers] could spray Roundup—which was still under patent—over millions of acres of row crops throughout the growing season, killing weeds throughout the spring and summer without hurting their harvest. This was a market opportunity of astounding proportions.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects. Secchi, meanwhile, questions why some of the wealthiest corporations and individuals in industrial agriculture are receiving additional federal money. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life. This is called, in U.N.

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Seeding Food Production Technology 142

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. The couple decided to grow, in addition to vegetables, an heirloom variety of wheat called Sonora.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. States then distribute the cash to counties or manage the funds at the state level. The NRCS allocates money to each state for EQIP and CSP contracts.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The newly freed men and women desired land from the government, which resulted in an ordinance for the redistribution of 400,000 acres of land from South Carolina to Florida for the four million freedmen. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

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