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.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 23, 2024
The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. When it comes to sustainability, experts say insect farming uses less land and water, and it has fewer emissions.
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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.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. Pete Larson on his farm. Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms.
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.
Sustainable Food Trust
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Driven by supermarket price wars, retailers have been relentlessly pushing down the price that they offer to the farmers that supply them, who, when faced with this price pressure, have perceived the only option left to them is further intensification and enlargement of their farming operations and, in the case of livestock, animal numbers.
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?
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