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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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. 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

It required only that technology developers provide the FDA with minimal data showing that the nutritional composition of the GM crops is “substantially equivalent” to the non-engineered version, and hence safe. “The The Mexican decree is not the only regional brushfire the US government and biotech industry are eager to extinguish.

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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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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

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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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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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