Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. The goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis walked up to the podium displaying a “Save Our Beef” poster — the logo designed as a parody of the World Economic Forum’s brand.

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Cultivation Cattle Ranching Science 67

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 95

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain. While many UK-reared cattle are now finished on a diet that includes some cereals, they typically spend the greater part of their lives grazing outside, and for people seeking the most sustainable meat option, produce from 100% grass-fed animals is available.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While it wouldn’t affect numbers from the past, the agency did recently commit to only buying red meat from cattle raised in the U.S. The IPCC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? What Role Does Farmland Play? Avoiding the Next Dust Bowl.

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Food Supply Chain Greenhouse Poultry 145