The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

I’m excited to publish my first-ever blog post at UCS on the food and farm bill, and tell you a bit about myself, my background, and—most importantly—how UCS hopes to shape this important legislation to help build a better food system for everyone. So, what exactly does UCS hope the next food and farm bill will accomplish?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. Just three years earlier, Kimbirauskas had gotten wind that Foster Farms was planning to move into her own home of Linn County, Oregon and decided to fight back.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. While he still casts his traps on occasion, farming kelp by hand and selling it as snacks and seasonings has become his main focus. billion in 2028.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

The top 1 percent of world’s largest farms now control 70 percent of land, leaving smaller-scale farmers behind. Green grabbing, in which governments and businesses take land for projects including wind farms, tree-planting, carbon offsetting and sequestration, or clean fuel generation has also exacerbated the land squeeze.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. Agriculture has become one of the most consolidated industries in the country. As the number of animals stuffed onto corporate farms increases, so has the amount of waste.

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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. Most of the previous generations of my family were either dairy farmers or worked in fields closely related to dairy farming.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. Agriculture has become one of the most consolidated industries in the country. full_link READ MORE Learn more about factory farms with our guides.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. But first, let’s break down all the red, green, and yellow flags included in the first draft. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Land O’Lakes, the company known to most Americans only as a longtime purveyor of butter wrapped in bright yellow packaging, had two adjoining tables showcasing two of its more specialized businesses: pesticides and carbon markets.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth,” writes author of the National Food Strategy, Henry Dimbleby, in the opening chapter of Ravenous. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

So, when new diseases strike, new pests emerge, and climate stresses increase on North American farms, scientists tend to look to places that are far from American farmland to find genetic resources in centers of origin that were never domesticated. or its market appeal.” But the agreement will certainly impact the U.S.,

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

I try to keep up with what’s going on with the Farm Bill, up for renewal soon. This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. BY LISA HELD, AUGUST 9, 2023 Reauthorizing the farm bill every five years generally involves contentious debates and delays as legislators and lobbyists hash out a wide range of competing priorities.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Alongside recipes, Sokoh also provides cultural and historical context for the dishes alongside photos from Nigerias landscapes, food markets, and people. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

But when a few companies grow so large that they control the market for goods and services we consider essential, that is bad. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have all been accused of using their market power to undermine competition and limit consumers’ choices. Big=bad when it comes to corporate power over food Big isn’t always bad.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” Because corn requires nitrogen fertilizer to grow, Manske is concerned that further consolidation of the fertilizer industry will drive his input prices up more.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Generically called the “farm” bill, it is actually a farm and food bill that supports a wide range of programs, including ones that cover crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations. And it is no accident.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

For others, however, the Welsh countryside is a stark reminder of the damage that humans have wreaked upon the land through intensive farming and industry. Modern farming has had a broad and largely terrible impact on these neglected ecosystems, from birds to bugs to flora and fauna.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Avoid the never-ending scroll on streaming platforms and instead refer to our list of recommended food and farming films, especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. He has been born and grown in the Valley and his wish from when he was a small boy, is that he wanted his own farm.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Reauthorizing the farm bill every five years generally involves contentious debates and delays as legislators and lobbyists hash out a wide range of competing priorities. GusNIP funds programs that give SNAP users access to more fruits and vegetables, especially through farmers’ market matching and produce prescription programs.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Heroes are People who do the work on farms.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Before 2013, many Silicon Valley investors were wary of agritech , the name given to the application of advanced technologies and computing to agriculture. Farming is more complex and fragmented than other sectors of the economy, in part due to the uncertainties of weather, environmental pressures, global markets, and local policies.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this article, Global Farm Metric Trials Manager, Olivia Boothman, shares her experience of visiting Nebraska on behalf of Regen10. Regen10 is a coalition of organisations working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture. Agriculture is clearly the industry of the state – and industrial is the agriculture!

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. a century ago found their way to Allensworth.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. 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.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Elizabeth Henderson , farmer and co-chair, Interstate Council policy committee of the Northeast Organic Farming Association I came to know Joan through my work as an organic farmer and as one of the first to organize a CSA [community supported agriculture system]. You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

But the US government’s insistence that GM crops are safe because they have been planted and consumed by US farm animals 25 years does not hold up. The rules governing the development and sale of GM foods date to the early 1990s, when Monsanto was preparing to bring the first major GM crop to market, Roundup Ready soybeans.

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