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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

Civil Eats

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

Partida uses an inhaler and believes the air quality in the region has worsened over time—not just from dust storms and pesticides, but also due to particle emissions from farm animals and manure. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake. Water quality isn’t just water quality.

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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” A claim repeated in various ways, is that a teaspoonful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.