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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

At this point, “our farm is pretty self-sufficient,” says Goni, as he rushed to plant summer feed corn on his barely dry fields. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. In Into the Weeds , however, Tama Matsuoka Wong introduces readers to the anthropological concept of the “ middle ground ” between foraging and farming.

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