Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. In 2016, HC&S, the state’s last sugar plantation, shuttered its Maui operations. The sugar industry soon dominated the island economy.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. anywhere in the world.

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Poultry Livestock Ecology Pasture 64

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Essington Farm is situated amidst beautiful countryside with cattle and sheep grazing or resting under gnarled oak trees and well-maintained hedges along the narrow roads. There were always beef cattle, too, but Simkin liked working with the pigs. From the age of 14, he looked after a small group of pigs.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No. Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. Both cattle and sheep are kept in large numbers and grazed on a paddock or strip system. Concentration of cattle and other animals are a major source of pollution.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. Historically, cattle would walk themselves to market—losing weight en route—and get slaughtered in the city.

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Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 138

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145