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They Once Worked in Factory Farming. Not Anymore.

Modern Farmer

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. At the same time, he is learning how to effectively grow mushrooms on his farm in the old poultry barns.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

The Soil Association’s report, Peak Poultry , details that roughly three million tonnes of soya are imported into the UK each year, and most of it is bought by chicken producers to fatten chickens. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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Will a Food and Ag Focus at COP28 Distract From the Fossil Fuel Economy?

Civil Eats

Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? In September, for example, Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) introduced a bill that would eventually require the USDA to spend 20 percent of its meat and poultry procurement dollars with small- and mid-size processors. Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice?

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Banning Concentrated Feedlots is on the Ballot in Sonoma

Modern Farmer

Livestock, poultry and animal products brought in approximately $140 million. Measure J is more complicated for many local farmers, including Smith, who raises sheep, poultry and swine, in addition to hay. But he agrees with one major aspect of it: a ban on poultry confinement facilities in Sonoma. The average U.S.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial-scale monoculture. (

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A Game of Chicken

Sustainable Food Trust

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Chris Smaje is a social scientist and small-scale farmer and grower who writes widely about what he calls ‘low-energy localism’.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of monoculture-based systems.

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