Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Plantix began its journey as an idea in the heads of people who recognized the problems with industrialized agriculture and explored ambitious ways of solving them. So when Helm’s CEO called to ask about working together more closely, she and the remaining founders agreed.

Pesticide 74

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 74

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

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. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.

Agriculture 102

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 102

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion. Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations. Author Austin Frerick.

Food 132

Food Ruralism Pasture Family Farming 132

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

Food 137

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 137

Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014.

Crop 79

Crop Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 79

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Secchi, meanwhile, questions why some of the wealthiest corporations and individuals in industrial agriculture are receiving additional federal money. “There’s going to be farmer confusion,” Kiel says. It’s unfortunate, but at least there’s going to be lots of choices.”

Agriculture 70

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 70

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Tracing Big Ag control from seed to supermarket We can trace corporate power through every stage of food production and distribution, identifying some of the largest and most problematic corporate actors—think of them as the Monsantos of today—along the way. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.

Farmland 136

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 136

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Though supposedly the beneficiaries of that grand US-directed experiment in industrial agriculture, they lack enthusiasm for its sequel. It is significant that Mexico and the Philippines are two of the poster children for last century’s Green Revolution.

Maize 141

Maize Science Food Crop 141

Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. Here, access means obtaining consent to access a nation or tribe’s genetic resources, and benefits means an equitable distribution of profits made from those resources.

Seeding 143

Seeding Food Production Technology 143

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.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

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. Florida became the first state in the U.S.

Cultivation 65

Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 65

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. States then distribute the cash to counties or manage the funds at the state level. The NRCS allocates money to each state for EQIP and CSP contracts.

Cattle 93

Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 93

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.

Plantation 120

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 120

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

In response, the first farm bill, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA)—a component of the New Deal—incentivized reducing production to raise crop prices through subsidy payments and established county committees controlled by racist elite plantation owners in the South who helped determine and distribute these subsidies.

Food 80

Food Plantation Farming Farming 80