Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

The entire industrial agri-business-based system needs fertilizers and pesticides to function,” Tostado says. For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant. Food production “doesn’t even start at the farm, it starts at the fossils.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Rosmann’s 700-acre organic operation is an anomaly in the region.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 31, 2023

When it comes from the ground, it’s often contaminated with nitrates, arsenic, and pesticides; these contaminants are linked to cancer, lung, and heart disease, among other ailments. Construction crews broke ground in May, and the well is slated for completion in May 2024.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. An Arizona Walnut tree. Photo CC-licensed by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University.)

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CalCAN

JUNE 30, 2023

Though the bill was signed into law and the state stepped up its support with the subsequent SB 489 (Laird, 2022) , the levee improvements are still under construction. Unfortunately, this winter’s devastating storms and the string of atmospheric rivers brought flooding that breached the levee on the Pajaro river.

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Agritecture Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Stacked Farm bills itself as being able to produce fresh fruit and vegetables year-round, using less water than traditional farming and without the need for pesticides. In months, its leafy vegetables will hit the shelves of major supermarkets around the country. Credit: InvertiGro.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The guide is especially helpful in its specifics, literally down to the baseboards used to construct the family’s functional barnhouse and greenhouse, and it details how to get the most out of popular crops in micro spaces. Mixed greens, tomatoes, snap peas, hemp, and more—even for this black thumb, Hartman makes it seem doable.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The finding supports a key fault advocates often point to: Because digesters depend on large volumes of manure, their construction could incentivize the growth and consolidation of large industrial facilities, which have other negative impacts on animals, the environment, and communities. Then Friends of the Earth U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Many farms and feedlots have runoff, whether this is excess manure, pesticides and herbicides or fertilizers such as phosphorus and nitrogen, both implicated in climate change. In one case, 500 Milwaukee suburban homes were taken out of a floodplain thanks to beavers, says Boucher. This created ponds deep enough for beavers in which to hide.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. The problem is that its notoriously hard to define. For them, the definition does not go far enough.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 14, 2024

So, I think we need to favor reach codes that require future construction to be all electric. Researchers at PRN monitored symptoms of pesticide drift—such as curled leaves—and collected tissue samples from plants over six years. In the past few years, we’ve hardly had a harvest because of pesticide drift.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

for nearly 20 years, moving between states as a farmworker and construction worker, without getting the chance to fully make any of them his home. Agriculture is one of Florida’s major industries, and along with construction and tourism, it plays a significant role in employing the state’s estimated 772,000 undocumented immigrants.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

for nearly 20 years, moving between states as a farmworker and construction worker, without getting the chance to fully make any of them his home. Agriculture is one of Florida’s major industries, and along with construction and tourism, it plays a significant role in employing the state’s estimated 772,000 undocumented immigrants.

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