Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He notes that farmers are then subject to the whims of a global market, which tends to skyrocket in price during geopolitical conflicts. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We

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Modern Farmer

JULY 22, 2024

Then, in 2021, the city changed the rules about farming and Owczarski went from having more than an acre in production to having about three city blocks. That was the last straw for Owczarski. During the pandemic, Owczarski saw a noticeable increase in need and a decrease in formal support. Photography by Monica Owczarski. “We

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

His parents had opened a farm shop and restaurant in 1990 to directly market the fruit and vegetables the farm produced, and Simkin felt that adding a butchery would make financial sense. Every Thursday, a group of 20 to 25 is transported in a trailer with thick straw bedding to a small abattoir which is just over six miles away.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

More than 200,000 acres of cotton is grown in the San Joaquin Valley—”enough to create at least seven pairs of jeans each year for every person in the state,” says Burgess. If a strong local fiber economy existed, growers could find markets for all their fiber, she says.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. The potential market is assumed to relate especially to those farmers who wish to reduce their dependence on expensive synthetic fertilisers.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And two, even before the IRA passed, market forces were setting clean energy on a path to replace fossil fuels. In some states, like Florida and California , many prominent companies have fled the market altogether. More climate-ambitious states are already layering on their own monetary incentives to decarbonize. grocery store prices.

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