Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He grows organic vegetables and industrial hemp, as well as wheat, soybeans, and corn.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. It sounds dreadful, doesn’t it?

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 119

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

Pesticide 145

Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop 145