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Trimble Agriculture
JULY 17, 2024
Industrial agriculture is a term often used negatively, but is it the villain it’s made out to be? The debate surrounding industrial agriculture and farm consolidation is complex and multifaceted. The topic of farm consolidation is closely tied to this term, as one typically leads to more of the other.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.
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The Equation
APRIL 3, 2023
The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state. The increased volume of water may cause rivers, dams, and levees to overflow, inundating nearby communities and farmland. Snow Water Equivalent in California Sierra Nevada.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
“A lot of the support was for the polluting farmer, and you know, farming is right there with the American flag and grandma’s apple pie.” Conservation on the Farm One way to do this is by using less fertilizer on the field. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres. Tesdell’s is 80.
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.
National Young Farmers Coalition
JUNE 26, 2024
Young Farmers opposed the bill when it was initially released and mobilized hundreds of advocates in direct and grassroots action to encourage House Agriculture Committee members to vote against it. 12301) A step back in federal farmland conservation tools for land access. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)
The Equation
MAY 14, 2024
They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. As noted in a UCS report , by 1920 there were 920,000 Black farmers making up 14 percent of all farmers and owning 15 million acres of farmland.
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