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The Truth about Industrial Agriculture 

Trimble Agriculture

Industrial agriculture is a term often used negatively, but is it the villain it’s made out to be? The debate surrounding industrial agriculture and farm consolidation is complex and multifaceted. Industrial agriculture plays a critical role in increasing productivity to meet this demand.

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. ppm for nitrates. coli poisoning in their water. “I

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Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?

Daily Yonder

I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. In a recent paper on crop insurance and finance in agriculture you wrote about rural politicians from both parties scrambling to prop up widely unpopular farm subsidies.

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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

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. Policy support has also been crucial, as have creative financing mechanisms.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. Plantix began its journey as an idea in the heads of people who recognized the problems with industrialized agriculture and explored ambitious ways of solving them.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.