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. It was a stark contrast to the Swiss countryside, where agriculture was practiced in a way that kept the soil healthy, and the land and air alive with animal, plant, and insect life.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We need to rebuild those connections with our traditional foods, those really visceral memories of processing wild rice and cutting up bison meat to hang and dry. Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. Linda Black Elk (third from left) and others butcher a bison.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

In agriculture, that meant increasing yields of commodity crops, and over the last 100 years this led to consolidation across the US food system. Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture. So there is a lot of space for climate mitigation as well.

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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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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases. However, these chemicals harm the very thing the crops rely on: soil. In Panama alone, 2.1 million hectares (5.1

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. The [manager] said, ‘This is not a feedlot; it’s a renewable energy project.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

At the same time, diets are becoming increasingly ultra-processed at the expense of nutritious whole foods. Ultra-processed foods currently make up 57% of our diets. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé, unravels the threads that connect soil, crops, animals and people. Dimbleby asks.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Birds, bats and insects live in balance on the farm, creating a healthy ecosystem where pests pose fewer problems, and the naturally poor-quality soil is able to produce sufficient varied and delicious crops to keep a successful veg box scheme running. Robinson never shies away from recounting the sometimes gorier details of the process.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil.

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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. Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Crops take time to grow. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases.

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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 the process of turning these components into soil is incredibly slow and microscopic. People like my parents, they were pushed off the land.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital. ” Eventually, the concept became a rallying cry—and the name of her new book.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

The crop he and co-founder Morgan-Lea Fogg gather each spring lies just below the surface: long lines of slick brown sugar kelp. A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. The World Bank said raising this versatile crop in just 5 percent of U.S. territorial waters would produce as much protein as 2.3

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. They are “actually enabling the more locally specific and traditional crops to be grown and consumed,” she tells Food Tank. “In

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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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

In her foreword, Joan wrote: Across this country, a movement is spreading that acknowledges a long-ignored reality: Most of what we pay for our food goes to companies that transport, process, and market what comes off the farms, not to farmers themselves. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. The role of regulatory capture is central to the story.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S. Numerous U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

There’s no ingredients we’re bringing to the process that’s any different than what an animal uses to grow,” says David Kaplan , a biomedical engineer who leads a cellular agriculture lab at Tufts University. In reality, there is a very long way to go before cultivated meat could really cut into the meat industry.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit.

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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.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet these qualities are their superpowers, making these food systems resilient, nutritious, and far more secure than industrial agriculture. Despite this remarkable diversity, 66 percent of global crop production is made up of only nine plant species.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill also provides new authority to allow USDA to refinance farm loans for distressed borrowers, although some of this flexibility was stripped back during the amendment process. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA. This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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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. Shannon said the city, industry and agricultural producers must work together.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. EQIP and CSP are working lands programs so they are doing conservation on land that is continuing to produce crops,” Coppess said. The NRCS awarded $2.1

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Spoor’s mission was to get Ocho Sur’s crop certified as deforestation-free, but exactly what that means depends on when you start the clock. Oil palm, as he rightly noted, can sequester more carbon than such annual crops , though studies have found it absorbs less than half that of a standing forest.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Earlier this month, however, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) quietly introduced a spending bill amendment that mirrored one introduced earlier in the summer by Representative Keith Self (R-Texas) in the House to halt the process. And if their proposals move forward, it could turn the entire effort on its head.

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