Family Farming Food Industrial Agriculture 
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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Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
Shane Hamilton is a historian of American agriculture and agribusiness who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom. to address some of the grand challenges in food and agriculture that we face today. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014.
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. Small- and medium-sized family farms, in particular, often have fewer resources to sustain damages and don’t have the luxury to prepare for the next growing season.
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
Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. Tilde Herrera The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos By Mark J. The book goes beyond the problems, too.
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