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The contribution of farming to the rural environment: A farmer’s viewpoint in 1985

Sustainable Food Trust

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene.

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Precision Ag News 10/18

Agwired

billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. factory will begin early next year on a 400-acre site in San Antonio, Texas. The construction of the 720,000 sq.

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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.” The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.