Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

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. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

It is very hard for most people to know what to do to organize against the threats presented by factory farming in their community. Align yourself with a supporting organization Food and Water Watch addresses factory farming on a big-picture scale. Jennifer Breon of Food and Water Watch Iowa echoes this point. “I

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garc é s has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. What she didn’t realize was that he was also against the factory farm system, having experienced first-hand the way it abuses farmers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 28, 2023

All is not well in the world of food and farm labor, however. Over the course of the year we reported on industry efforts to roll back hard-won gains on the minimum wage and efforts to build paths to citizenship for immigrants, risks from extreme weather due to climate change, and the perilous nature of work in seafood and animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more people. All of us, in some way, are impacted by industrial animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 24, 2024

Despite the name, the Farm Bill doesn’t only affect farmers. If you eat food, the Farm Bill impacts you. It has huge implications for food production, nutrition assistance, animal welfare, the environment, trade and much more. Instead, it extended the Farm Bill by a year to give itself more time.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming , is available for purchase now. My career is devoted to protecting farmed animals and ending factory farming. But soon the chickens started to get sick—it was a factory farm, after all. Now I was sitting in his living room. He was ready for a change.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kody McCleary wants more consumers to understand the work that goes into sustainable and humane pig farming. Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. The quality of the animal is just better.”

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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NASDA

JANUARY 31, 2024

She helped plan and execute the policy team’s first-ever “NASDA 101” briefing for Capitol Hill staff, compiled and facilitated a nationwide survey on African Swine Fever preparedness, and continues her engagement with lawmakers to discuss farm bill priorities.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Steven and Alaina Imhoff knew they wanted to expand their hog farming at Triple Creek Farms in southeast Iowa. Niman farmers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For the past 15 years, we have led the charge in creating robust conversations around food and farming, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories more accessible to a mainstream audience. In that time, our stories have had significant impact and reach, thanks in part to support from our readers and donors.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the mid-2010s, conversations about antibiotic use in animal agriculture was coming under greater scrutiny. Farms sometimes used antibiotics as part of their production practices, including to grow bigger birds. Sanderson Farms was a notable exception.) The FDA’s efforts, however, came a little too late.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV. You can read Food Tank’s coverage of the roadmap, which was announced last year, here. FoodDive : Food system transformation on the menu at COP28 III.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 11, 2024

Researchers concluded that “there is exceptionally strong evidence for a link between low animal welfare levels and high zoonotic risks, exacerbated by animal crowding, low genetic diversity, compromised hygiene, and high animal stress levels which compromise immune systems.”

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

States are working diligently to ensure farmers and farmworkers have access to PPE and other resources to implement or improve robust biosecurity protocols on their farms. Sincerely, Blayne Arthur President, NASDA Secretary Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry Charles Hatcher, D.V.M.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Swift, collective action is needed to implement a consistent plan, including resources to take needed measures to protect farms and livestock from highly pathogenic avian influenza and limit spread further, McKinney said.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions.

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ATTRA

JULY 29, 2024

An international team of scientists concluded that when social, economic, and political factors are considered, intensive animal agriculture could contribute to the risk of infectious diseases developing.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

always knew he wanted to raise his own family on a farm. He has farmed in the Chesapeake Bay watershed since the early 2000s and now works full-time with his son, Matt, growing corn, soybeans, and wheat whilehumanely raising pigs. The number of farms in the U.S. The number of farms in the U.S. Only 4 percent of U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Congress Likely to Preserve OSHA Loophole That Endangers Animal Ag Workers A 2022 Civil Eats investigation found that a budget rider that prohibits OSHA from spending money to ​regulate small farms leaves most animal-ag operations without oversight. Lawmakers appear poised to renew the rider once again.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 18, 2023

Zane Wanjura ’24 stays true to his roots while pursuing his passion Students in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science can choose from a wide variety of career paths across multiple disciplines in animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 20, 2023

. “He is an inspirational leader who promotes a culture of innovation, empowerment and curiosity that fosters collaborative work efforts that benefit agency employees and Washington agriculture alike.” The farm is not, however, the only commonality Itle shares with her family. “I territories.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Passage of the bill will also help each state address its needs for public practice veterinarians (food safety, public health, epidemiology, pathology, molecular diagnostics, virology, toxicology, immunology, bacteriology, serology, foreign animal disease preparedness, and livestock infectious diseases).

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2023. Additional topics covered water sanitation, on-farm food safety testing, antimicrobial stewardship, biosecurity audits and more. Advancing Animal Agriculture.”

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

A few corporations benefit and now control our food production to the detriment of small and medium-sized farmers, especially Black farmers who lost the majority of their land and wealth as farms consolidated. Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. I was just working [on the farm] all the time and loved it.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

Now in its 25th year, Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States who all adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Ron Mardesen, Niman farmer for more than 21 years, used to stay up at night worrying about losing his farm. Army veteran.

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NASDA

MARCH 19, 2024

food and agriculture sector, and its release continues to be an ideal way to celebrate National Agriculture Day,” NASDA CEO Ted McKinney said. The report showcases the impact all workers in the food and agriculture industry – from the farm all the way to the plate – have on the U.S. and the world.”

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Agwired

OCTOBER 2, 2024

farms, up slightly from September 2023 and up 2 percent from June 1, 2024, according to the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). As of Sept.1, 1, there were 76.5 million hogs and pigs on U.S. According to the U.S.

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

farms and ranches. The bipartisan bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to confirm a regulatory path for non-nutritive animal food ingredients that act in the animal’s gut to provide production benefits, address human food safety concerns and affect the byproducts from digestion from the animal.

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