UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Image 3: The global distribution of soil acidity and alkalinity is largely related to annual rainfall and its excess over evapotranspiration. Except for the frozen artic regions, the distribution of acid soils (red areas on the map) corresponds quite closely to the distribution of forest vegetation.
Civil Eats
JULY 2, 2024
In just three years, the 25-year-old entrepreneur, who started off with a seasonal pushcart, has opened two shops and now distributes pints to about 60 grocery stores in Oregon and Washington. Using a $40,000 DBII grant, he’s acquired an additional fleet of machines and is working toward nationwide distribution.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 to resolve lawsuits associated with the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses, Arthur accepted a buyout, distributed by the Golden LEAF Foundation, to help him transition away from the crop. He used the money to pay off the farm loans he had with the U.S.
The Equation
JUNE 5, 2023
We are allowing our groundwater (which is our water savings account) to be depleted to grow cash crops for wealthy corporations. The question is, since the water that exists in California belongs to all Californians , how do we want it to be distributed? We need healthy food and a healthy environment.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.
World Agri-Tech
JANUARY 3, 2024
In contrast, agtech has fewer corporate buyers, hard-to-reach distributed customers, all of them growing commodified food at low value per acre and hardly anything going public, and those that do, regretting it. The lesson for agtech is to target only the truly massive addressable markets to offset these downside issues.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
A review from earlier this year found that only a third of published studies in which researchers compared fields that were cover-cropped with those that weren’t reported significant gains in soil carbon. And a study published last month illustrated one major reason why farmers may be reluctant to plant cover crops.
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