Farmland Industrial Agriculture Pesticide 
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.
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.
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.
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.
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)
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
222 
Let's personalize your content