Farmland Fertilizer Textiles 
Agwired
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The answer…soy-based textiles which are on the rise. Soy announces Clara Padgham from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the national winner of the NEXTILE: The Soy in Textile Design Challenge. Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 1, 2024
Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Theyre as fertile as can be. The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. When the loan money was delayed, he would have to fertilize and plant late, and the farm would operate under stress all year, often experiencing low yieldand reduced profitsas a result.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. It wasn’t much, but they had only to cross the river to hunt wild game, gather native fruits, and harvest natural dyes for pottery and textiles they sold in local markets.
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