Crop Grain Industrial Agriculture 
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Our taxpayer dollars are propping up some of the largest industrial agriculture operations in the country, allowing the big to get bigger. Our governments misplaced prioritization of growing and exporting low-value crops, which primarily benefits the corporations dominating our food system, is reflected in Americas public health.
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We
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Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
But for decades, states have allowed farmers to overpump groundwater to irrigate corn and other crops that would otherwise struggle on the arid High Plains. Now, the disappearing water is threatening more than just agriculture. They switched from corn to wheat or grain sorghum and used irrigation more strategically.
Modern Farmer
JULY 12, 2024
In reaction to the European Union’s Green New Deal, which proposed reducing pesticides, restoring nature and planting more climate-resilient crops, Dutch farm groups have pushed back. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.
Civil Eats
JULY 9, 2024
In 2021, for example, The New York Times put that narrative in print by featuring a carbon-market farmer who had stopped tilling, diversified his crops, and planted cover crops, eventually building his soil health enough to completely eliminate the use of synthetic fertilizer.
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots by Shane Mitchell Shane Mitchell spent nine years tracking down the history of fruits, vegetables, and grains in the American South to understand the regions relationship to food.
Civil Eats
APRIL 8, 2024
When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” Because corn requires nitrogen fertilizer to grow, Manske is concerned that further consolidation of the fertilizer industry will drive his input prices up more.
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