Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 130

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. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Manure 105

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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Ruralism Manure Farming Farming 86

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 78

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. The potential to make meat, only without the ranch, has felt like a blow to generational farmers like Holley.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67