Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In both cases, its the initial conversion of undisturbed land to farmland that has the biggest impact. If its coming to the Delta, its going to be existing farmland switching from one crop to another, not new land being converted. But he has bigger plans.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. By some estimates, meat production accounts for nearly 60 percent of the greenhouse gasses generated by the food system, with beef as the leading culprit.

Ranching 105

Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 105

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. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres. The organization works with growers and food hubs in eastern and central Iowa counties.

Food 111

Food Acre Greenhouse Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

Farming 114

Farming Farming Farmland Greenhouse 114

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We It’s a greenwashing scheme.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 70

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Farmland Greenhouse Farming Farming 99

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

Farming 94

Farming Farming Farmland Greenhouse 94

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

Farmland 93

Farmland Greenhouse Crop Farming 93

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

Food 88

Food Farmland Greenhouse Farming 88

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Another big factor is end of life.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 103

Food Tank

MAY 10, 2024

That includes the Farm Bill , a vital legislative package responsible for funding everything from farm subsidies and SNAP benefits to international food aid, the urgency to assist war-torn countries, combat rising hunger, and protect our farmlands. We need a strong farmer-focused Farm Bill and we need it now.

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Food Farming Farming Greenhouse 132

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 44m weekly audience across platforms NPR The Biden administration’s $3.1

Manure 111

Manure Fertilizer Distribution Farming 111

Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Yesterday, the agency took a big step toward refining its definition of that term by announcing a major initiative intended to improve the data it uses to guide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and make farms more resilient to climate change. As part of that program, the USDA began distributing $3.1

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Pesticide Food Greenhouse Seeding 98

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

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. “We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. Florida became the first state in the U.S.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 65

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Since October, 40% of Gaza’s total farmland has been destroyed by bombs and bulldozers. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. An aerial view of PFAS test plots on Sue Hunter’s farm in Unity, Maine.

Farming 132

Farming Farming Fertilizer Forage 132

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

While there are a handful of proposals that NSAC is pleased to see included, an extended series of misguided provisions in the FFNSA would only perpetuate the inequitable distribution of resources in U.S. For instance, the Trump Administration distributed $28 billion to commodity producers disrupted by its trade war with China.

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Farming Farming Processing Crop 105

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But in Central Ohio, a farmer recently sold 227 acres of farmland to Microsoft for $29 million. But it also has, cumulatively, released more heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than any other machine on earth. Meanwhile, the cost of land has soared. Who could say no? It wouldnt be accurate to even call it a battle.

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Acre Construction Ruralism Harvester 87

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars. From a greenhouse gas emissions perspective, the Renewable Fuel Standard has failed, says Jason Hill, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering.

Acre 110

Acre Crop Fertilizer Greenhouse 110

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Over the past four years, the Biden administrations priorities have centered on spending billions of dollars on food and farm infrastructure, paying farmers to implement climate-smart practices, finalizing new regulations related to the environment , labor, food safety , and nutrition, and distributing more dollars to food insecure families.

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Food Farming Farming Pesticide 145