Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. In the US, 85 percent of used clothes and other textiles are sent to the landfill.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

He went on to talk about the studies being done on greenhouse gases in relation to sheep farming and the potential for wool to be a carbon sink, with around 40% of a sheep’s fleece consisting of carbon. Why are we competing on a global scale when we have good markets in the UK for fibres and textiles?

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Production Textiles Greenhouse Farming 111

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over the next five years, the program hopes to sign up 100 agricultural operations and impact two million acres of land. At least 40 percent of all program benefits will go to small and underserved farmers, and a special initiative is encouraging Black farmers in southern states to grow climate-smart cotton.

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Textiles Manufacturing Ranching Greenhouse 75

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. Bista’s son Bal is New Leaf’s chicken and greenhouse manager, and he and his in-laws also have community farmer plots.

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Crop Cultivation Textiles Farming 104

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Today Peebles has expanded to 2,000 acres, all organic.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 52