Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Growers hope other states will follow with that designation.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Some see the answer to more sustainable fabrics in new materials that can readily decompose or be recycled; others say natural fibers and local supply chains are the way to go. Cheap and easy to make, it’s still the fastest-growing group of fibers used to manufacture garments. What’s the solution?

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 117

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.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

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. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. is the first one that we worked with in the beef space. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Warming has led to reduced agricultural productivity and diminished crop yields , while major disasters throttle the supply chain. But the winner of the 2024 election can determine how badly climate change batters the food supply in the long run — primarily by controlling greenhouse gas emissions. grocery store prices.

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Food Production Greenhouse Construction 51