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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month. Dairy is also tightly woven into the fabric of California agriculture.

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