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The Agriculture Resilience Act Is a Win for Sustainable Nutrition Science 

The Equation

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) of 2023 was re-introduced in Congress today. The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste.

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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. What can farmers do to avoid weather “whiplash”?

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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. Being in Switzerland was a reminder that agriculture need not be the problem.

Food 143
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On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

Modern Farmer

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.

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CHICKENS UNDER COFFEE TREES

The Lunatic Farmer

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region. It was just an insane amount of water in such a short amount of time.”

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

He believes that there is much to be learnt from how Wales was once farmed and that by using the right animals in the right places, increasing tree cover and farming in harmony with nature, agriculture can be an effective, culturally sensitive and socially just means of managing and restoring the Welsh landscape.

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