Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, barley, oats, cotton) and plays an important role in predicting farm program expenditures in the President’s annual budget proposal. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The cause of the tragedy, according to Illinois State Police , was “excessive winds blowing dirt from farm fields across the highway leading to zero visibility.” Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over. Since 2012, we’ve lost nearly 32 million acres, some to development, some to the expansion of farming. A lot of the new land that’s getting plowed up is soil that isn’t necessarily going to sustain farming for the long term.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

of farm household members had no health insurance, higher than the 9.1% Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. So she quit to help on the farm. for the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 31, 2023

The US Department of Agriculture recently funded research using satellite data to evaluate climate smart adaptations in agriculture, and the US Senate is considering a bill that would make precision agriculture, a practice involving technology such as satellites, available to more rural farmers. We have a small farm at home as well.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. A lot of Black and Indigenous farmers are working full-time jobs and farming on weekends and at night.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

A Farm Bill Opinion Piece by Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University In a recent New York Review of Books essay , I argued that few non-farmers – which is most of the U.S. population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies.

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