Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. Through conversations with farmers and food systems experts, Foroohar highlights the urgent need for localized economies, regulatory safeguards, and the creation of stronger, more sustainable industries.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Farming 131

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Manure 105

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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Ruralism Manure Farming Farming 87

The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can join in this effort by asking your members of Congress to support the Justice for Black Farmers Act and to defend our food and farm system—and the bill that governs it—from attack by members of Congress who choose to represent massive industrial agriculture corporations rather than the farmers and farmworkers who make up their districts.

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Farming Farming Food Real Estate 91

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. If only my attempts at patchwork quilting looked as neat as this, I thought.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. That illegal change in the creek also affected local farmers.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 119

Food Politics

MARCH 19, 2024

This editorial is talking about industrial agricultural producers—Big Ag—not small organic farmers using regenerative principles. The editorial points out (my translation) that the EU spends about a third of its annual budget on subsidizing industrial agriculture.

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Industrial Agriculture Pesticide Farmland Agriculture 222

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland. Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. “It’s a greenwashing scheme. It’s going to allow nothing to get done.”­ But it should be. The main greenhouse gases emitted by U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 82

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

In 2023, the Biden administration formed an interagency working group to examine consolidation in the seed industry, but that’s a long way from action to curb the seed giants’ control of this most basic of resources. Farmland Prime farmland is also susceptible to corporate takeover and accumulation of too many acres in too few hands.

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Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

So, when new diseases strike, new pests emerge, and climate stresses increase on North American farms, scientists tend to look to places that are far from American farmland to find genetic resources in centers of origin that were never domesticated.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers. An important shift to this type of alternative proteins could free up a lot of farmland to allow for more agroecological farming ,” he says, such as incorporating rewilding projects to mitigate emissions.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

Young Farmers opposed the bill when it was initially released and mobilized hundreds of advocates in direct and grassroots action to encourage House Agriculture Committee members to vote against it. 12301) A step back in federal farmland conservation tools for land access. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “Melka is the game changer,” Dammert told me.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. As noted in a UCS report , by 1920 there were 920,000 Black farmers making up 14 percent of all farmers and owning 15 million acres of farmland.

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