Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A total of 43% of farms had positive net cash farm Percent farms with net income: 43% Farms selling direct to consumers: 116,617 with sales of $3.3 billion (up 16%) Farms with sales of $ 1 million or more: 105,384 (6% of all farms); they sell three-fourths of all agricultural products.

Agriculture 216

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 216

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. Ron Mardesen stopped the use of routine antibiotics nearly 40 years ago.

Cattle 130

Cattle Food Acre Farming 130

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Or factory farms? Or cattle feedlots? I suggest that instead of abundance requiring eliminating cows, can't we pick something better to eliminate? Like glyphosate? Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer?

Fertilizer 52

Fertilizer Pasture Ecology Cattle 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

Food 139

Food Agriculture Agriculture Pasture 139

Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

Grass-fed beef is also leaner than conventional beef; this means there will be less fat marbling in your steak or burger when cooking with grass-fed meat compared to regular supermarket products from factory farms that raise cattle on corn feedlots. These plants provide excellent nutrition for cattle.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Pasture Forage 52

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The farm then creates a second source of income.” In other words, Vilsack argued, climate action could help save the American farm. The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factory farms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size.

Agriculture 81

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 81

Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed.

Family Farming 76

Family Farming Farming Farming Acre 76