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.” These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations. Pollard said Cream Co.

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Farming Farming Food Ranching 114

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

“We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. In actuality, cultivated meat is not that mysterious.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Its import extends backward to the earliest Mesoamerican creation myths starring maize-minded gods.

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?”

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “What is it that people are going to do here in the jungle?”

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126