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The Truth about Industrial Agriculture 

Trimble Agriculture

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.

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Farming with Nature: How One Rice Company Is Using Regenerative Practices to Heal the Soil and Protect Biodiversity

Food Tank

Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. You can just start with a part of [the farm] and see how it goes and see if it works for you. Farmers have just 24 to 48 hours to effectively pull this off.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

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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Drought, Floods, and the Future of California’s Water Challenges

The Equation

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.

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

“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.

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Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?

Daily Yonder

However, it is not at all clear that the crop insurance policies disproportionately favor large-scale agribusiness, and indeed nearly all of the political rhetoric around crop insurance is routinely (and generally sincerely) framed around a narrative of saving the “family farm.”

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

Modern Farmer

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

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