Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.

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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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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit. The couple decided to grow, in addition to vegetables, an heirloom variety of wheat called Sonora.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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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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