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 181

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. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas.

Agriculture 103

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 103

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.

Grain 52

Grain Farming Farming Agriculture 52

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.

Farmland 139

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 139

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

In reaction to the European Union’s Green New Deal, which proposed reducing pesticides, restoring nature and planting more climate-resilient crops, Dutch farm groups have pushed back. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.

Cultivation 64

Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 64

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)

Food 40

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