Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” This means crops and animals are raised without pesticides or hormones, have access to open areas and are entirely or partially grass-fed.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Using robots to milk cows and drones for the precision irrigation of crops will save labor costs and conserve water. Growing perennial grasses, rather than annuals like wheat, will permit us to mow the cereals we eat rather than cutting them down whole, thus keeping root systems intact and putting an end to soil degradation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“The fact is that our current food system pours herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides on so much of our food.” Photo courtesy of Linda Black Elk) The fact is that our current food system pours herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides on so much of our food. Linda Black Elk (third from left) and others butcher a bison.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. Source: SEEN. Imagine air quality so bad that it makes your nose bleed!

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 119

The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

This legislation covers everything from crop insurance to conservation to forestry to nutrition , so over the past few months I’ve been learning a lot! Now that I’ve joined UCS I’ve plunged into the world of food security within the United States, which means I’m looking at the food and farm bill in a whole new light.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. Agricultures devastating toll is evident in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Upper Midwest, where it caused 95% of wetland loss between 1997 and 2009.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Generically called the “farm” bill, it is actually a farm and food bill that supports a wide range of programs, including ones that cover crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. We met with four inspiring farmers who are going against the grain (pun intended – Nebraska’s main crop is corn) and adopting regenerative agriculture practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé, unravels the threads that connect soil, crops, animals and people. Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash. This latest book, by geology professor David R.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” He manipulates weather patterns to bring on drought and extreme temperatures, summons pests that are resistant to pesticides, and degrades the soil. Crops take time to grow.

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Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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Food Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 124

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd. Case in point: The fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have to pollute our rivers, oceans, and drinking water. We first met in the 1990s at the Culinary Institute of America, at a conference about genetically modified crops. How could they not?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

What happens is this: The genetic code of Bt seeds are programmed to produce toxins that attack the stomach linings of crop-munching caterpillars. But the US government’s insistence that GM crops are safe because they have been planted and consumed by US farm animals 25 years does not hold up. But those days have ended.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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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.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate. That was—and still is—a major oversight.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices. The precision agriculture and automation focus detracts from much-needed investments in farmer-led, scale-appropriate research.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But we have to better use those programs to nourish more people to advance health equity, and to support farmers who are growing crops that nourish our communities in the process. Then you’ve got 70 percent of the crop insurance subsidies going to the largest farms in the top 7 percent, and most of them are growing corn and soy.

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