Farmland Grain Industrial Agriculture 
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. The number of U.S. full_link READ MORE Can cities grow enough food to feed their citizens?
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. So they’re working to highlight how perennial grains can help rebuild soils.
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Modern Farmer
JULY 12, 2024
No matter the perception of reality, animal agriculture is still the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions behind fossil fuels and is the number one cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss. Beef is considered the least efficient type of meat. He adds that alternative proteins would help farmers. “An
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
In Part One, Feedgood, a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, outlines a public framework and presents principles and practices for food systems planning. And in Part Two, she shows readers the policies and programs that support farming systems, sustain agriculture, and bolster community food security.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Agriculture is clearly the industry of the state – and industrial is the agriculture!
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. ppm for nitrates. Neighbors need to work together.”
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.
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