NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Crop insurance allows producers to customize their policies to their individual farm and financial needs and policies are based on fundamental market principles, which means higher risk areas and higher value crops pay higher premiums for insurance.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 125

Agritecture Blog

JULY 27, 2023

More crops, longer shelf life, no pesticides, fewer bacteria, less land, 99% less water, climate independent. market readiness, regulatory environments, technological complexity, and the willingness of industries to embrace change) and conventional agriculture has gotten a 12,000-year head start on the learning curve.

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Vertical Farming Agriculture Agriculture Farming 98

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Such risks include pests, diseases, fluctuating market prices, and supply chain disruptions and more. Farmers can receive real-time weather forecasts, pest and disease alerts, and market price updates via mobile phones or digital platforms.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Weve experienced nothing like this before, said New River Conservancy Executive Director Andrew Downs.This is due to fuel, pesticides, and sewage that has polluted the streams. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests.

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Farming Farming Acre Rural Development 97

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Tenants agree to not use any pesticides and allow the Wicklers access to the yard. Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. They see it as an eco model that is very interesting.”

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. Dodon is not certified organic and still applies pesticides when needed, especially fungicides, which East Coast vineyards often rely on due to a much more humid climate than California’s.

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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.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. How to lease farmland for alternative energy Why you should join or start a farm cooperative Is a CSA right for you The government offers a number of programs for young farmers.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. The consolidation of market structure by large food corporations over the last century has stifled competition and enabled the industry to unabatedly commit a series of labor violations.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Plantation 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they say, ‘You’re just cashing in on the new b t market.’” Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost. Farmers join waitlists for solar panels in exchange for not farming their fields, then the solar companies never show up. Or they’re tricked into signing multi-year contracts.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Two years later, Iowa expanded gambling in the tribe’s primary markets, and tribal leaders realized that casinos weren’t a long-term solution toward economic prosperity. After the land-back policy was adopted in 2012, the tribe gradually began bidding for and winning small leases on farmland. “It Progress was gradual, LaPointe said.

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Food Farming Farming Marketing 52

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” Many of these points echo the “Great Reset” conspiracy theories promoted by far-right political and media figures dating back to the pandemic, Nusa Urbancic, CEO of the Changing Markets Foundation, an advocacy group favoring sustainable markets, tells Sentient.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. It’s not economic incentives – most of them still sell their produce into commodity markets, which are not yet set up to offer farmers a price advantage for producing their food using more sustainable methods.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. Height of nimbleness? We literally are managing fields this year for weed reduction in 2024.

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Farming Farming Fertilizer Food 52

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Our cover crop cocktail has resulted in an immense reduction in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

But when a few companies grow so large that they control the market for goods and services we consider essential, that is bad. Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have all been accused of using their market power to undermine competition and limit consumers’ choices. Big=bad when it comes to corporate power over food Big isn’t always bad.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is because productive arable farmland, that could be used for growing food to be fed directly to people, is used for growing lower grade livestock cereals, from which only 17-30% of calories are returned for human consumption as meat or milk. The more cereals that are fed to an animal, the less resource efficient its milk or meat is.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

A new agricultural inputs market in the making Some studies, though, are not focused on the impact on naturally occurring mycorrhizae at all, but on the benefits of using mycorrhizal spores as commercial inoculants for agricultural crops. An international market for mycorrhizal spores has in fact been developing since at least 2008.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. People who think we could not have fed the world without chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and hybridization don’t understand that if we had had a Manhattan Project for compost, not only would we have fed the world, we would have built soil, reduced sickness, and created landscape resiliency.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

Farmers have reduced the amount of labor and land used to farm and increased inputs such as machinery, farm structures, fertilizer, and pesticides, according to the U.S. beef processing and 67 percent of pork processing, and only four corporations control 65 percent of the global agrochemicals market. “To

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Luxury fruit— a longtime cultural staple in Asian markets —has finally made landfall in the US. Social media influencers are shelling out cash to unbox packages of exclusive produce on TikTok , and high-end retailers such as Whole Foods Market are now displaying expensive fruit on their store shelves. Would you pay $50 for six pears?

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Agriculture Agriculture Marketing Vertical Farming 86

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 2, 2024

Darcy Maulsby, a fifth-generation Calhoun County, Iowa farmer, has been speaking with farmers in her area for years to get a policy around foreign ownership of farmland in the books. There is no policy concerning foreign ownership of farmland in the Iowa policy book, according to Maulsby. million in revenue and $31.7

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Farming Farming Farmland Processing 91

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Large farms now control 42 percent of the farmland in the country. Since he took office in 2021, he has tried to simultaneously support large-scale production and the influential companies that drive and profit from it while investing in new markets for small farms and regional infrastructure. The question is: Can we do better?

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Farming Farming Acre Food 144

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The USDA spent the most money—6 percent of its total purchases, or $270 million—on food from Cargill, which is the country’s largest private company and has long been accused of creating unfair markets for farmers and perpetuating deforestation in South America. What Role Does Farmland Play? Read More: Dust is a Growing Problem.

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Food Supply Chain Greenhouse Poultry 145

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Investment in programs like the Local Agriculture Market Program and the USDAs 2501 Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Grant have also been critical for my community and Black farmers in Kansas.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140

National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S. The approach to addressing speculative ownership of farmland misses the mark.

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Farmland Ruralism Farming Farming 40

NASDA

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Letter Dear Deputy Director Guertin, The PPC represents agriculture, food, fiber, public health, pest management, landscape, environmental, and related industries, including small businesses/entities, which are dependent on the availability of pesticides. farmland, creating a significant ability to affect agricultural production.

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Pesticide Manufacturing Science Minor Crop 195

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

About 45 percent of it ends up as feed for America’s factory-scale meat farms; another 10 percent goes into sweeteners and starches; and another 14 percent gets exported into the global animal-feed market. As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars.

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