Acre Industrial Agriculture Manufacturing 
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. . ” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.
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. That got us thinking, ‘Why, in this decade, are pesticide companies all of a sudden super interested in data?’”
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The Equation
MAY 9, 2024
Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.
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.
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.
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.
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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