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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

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His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

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The guide is especially helpful in its specifics, literally down to the baseboards used to construct the family’s functional barnhouse and greenhouse, and it details how to get the most out of popular crops in micro spaces. Mixed greens, tomatoes, snap peas, hemp, and more—even for this black thumb, Hartman makes it seem doable.

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What the Latest Farm Census Says About the Changing Ag Landscape

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State and county profiles are forthcoming, and additional data on specific topics such as irrigation and aquaculture will also follow later this year.) On February 6, a federal court stopped the spraying of the controversial pesticide dicamba across millions of acres of cotton and soybeans. Then Friends of the Earth U.S.

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