Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization calculates—which makes the problem of soil erosion so much more concerning. As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” Ninety-five percent of food nutrients come from soils, the U.N.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But in the Vaud, the fields were relatively small, a few dozen acres at most, and people were careful to plant fruit and nut-bearing trees alongside the edges. I recalled the criticism leveled against wheat: that it’s one of humanity’s most egregious examples of a monocrop.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

But for now, to offset flood risk from rising water levels, the State Water Resources Control Board has agreed to send more than 600,000 acre-feet of water (pretty much what Los Angeles consumes in a year) to areas where it can soak into the ground and replenish the aquifer beneath the San Joaquin Valley.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By destroying wetlands, industrial agriculture robs communities of natural flood protectionsjust as climate change fuels more frequent and severe floods, like those in the summer of 2024 that devastated communities, destroyed crops, and claimed lives in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

(Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture. So, when we try to farm at these very large scales.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Joyce’s book, Remembering Peasants , sets out to document this fast-vanishing population, which has been devastated by social change, war and the relentless expansion of industrial agriculture.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” Because corn requires nitrogen fertilizer to grow, Manske is concerned that further consolidation of the fertilizer industry will drive his input prices up more.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate. Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process. supply of edible seaweed. Since most U.S.

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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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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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

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. Can you start by telling me who you are – where are you from, what do you do? And are those things related? Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Industrial agriculture may produce higher yields, but the quality and nutrition levels of our food, as well as nature, animals and the state of our planet, have suffered as a result of these intensive practices. To Which We Belong Director: Pamela Tanner Boll Where to watch: Rent from £1.49 on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

A recent study from the USDA’s Economic Research Service found that just two giant seed companies —Bayer and Corteva—accounted for nearly three-quarters of planted corn acres and two-thirds of planted soybean acres in the United States between 2018 and 2020.

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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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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.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

At those tables, farmers could grab an Advanced Acre Rx hat from WinField United, Land O’Lakes’ seed and chemical company, and a water bottle emblazoned with the logo for Truterra , its carbon market platform, in one fell swoop. Advanced Acre Rx is a prescription system that is sold as a way to target inputs for greater efficiency.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Whittaker raises about 6,000 broiler chickens annually on 10 acres, and he has flocks on pasture well into October and November, when tens of thousands of snow geese, trumpeter swans, tundra swans, and ducks of all kinds fly overhead. My small flock represents one additional node in the food production network.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. For example, she describes how the agricultural industry backed state Right to Farm laws that limit residents’ ability to file nuisance actions against CAFOs once they’re up and running.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

EN: Before we get to the issue of agriculture sector pollution, I wanted to ask you about the recent US Supreme Court decision that severely curtailed the EPA’s authority to protect millions of acres of wetlands. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. million acres of wetlands. What are wetlands and why do they matter?

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But for decades, the state’s regulation of water benefited its largest user and its largest industry: agriculture. The farm has historically been among Kansas’ largest water users, irrigating 9,000 acres, but they’ve cut their usage in recent years and committed to another 10 years of voluntary water conservation.

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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. Outreach to Black landowners, others who are underserved The Johnson family is raising cattle on about 15 of the 200 acres they own near Lexington, Mississippi.

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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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