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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.

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On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

Modern Farmer

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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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

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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The Agriculture Resilience Act Is a Win for Sustainable Nutrition Science 

The Equation

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. The environment suffers as soil is exhausted and water is polluted. New paradigm?

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CHICKENS UNDER COFFEE TREES

The Lunatic Farmer

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. Chickens are already the first farm animal awake in the morning (cows next, pigs last).

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How sustainable farming is paying off for Australian farmers

Agritecture Blog

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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