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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

As committed stakeholders and beneficiaries of the farm bill, we cannot continue to wait for updated policies, provisions, initiatives and critical funding that support our collective interests.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Sitting in the middle of the country, the Delta has plenty of water and great logistics as well as rich soil. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. In WWFs view, the Delta could be the Next California.

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As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge from the Marshes

Civil Eats

In July, a team of researchers led by Kate Tully at the University of Maryland published a paper that mapped the extent of saltwater intrusion onto Delaware and Maryland farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula for the first time.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. But Walmart’s business model appears otherwise unchanged, and its suppliers say the company’s foundational obsession with cost hasn’t waned.