Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors. Neighbors need to work together.”

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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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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 71

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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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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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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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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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 70

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 64

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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Seeding Food Production Technology 112

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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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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