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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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Ultimately, hurricanes and high-pressure systems are “large-scale dynamics that occur at a planetary scale”—and unlikely to be influenced by local processes. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

These technologies provide high-resolution images of farmland, allowing farmers to detect stress factors such as nutrient deficiencies, waterlogging, pest infestations, or disease outbreaks before they become widespread. Traditional crop insurance often involves lengthy claim processes.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Rosmann’s 700-acre organic operation is an anomaly in the region.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The process of producing sprouted walnuts starts first by soaking them in water, rinsing them in a salt bath, then dehydrating them at low temperatures until ready. This process reduces both the tannin levels and allergens. With the added value of processing the walnuts, sprouted walnuts were able to be sold at a premium.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Photo courtesy of Chris Rauch) Rauch is one of many farmers taking a chance on a new process called Enhanced Rock Weathering, or ERW. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost. ” A map of acidic soil levels across the US. That optimizes nutrient availability.

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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

National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This bill helps meet the conservation needs of young and BIPOC producers through dedicated funding and a simplified application process for small operations. With these partners, we call on Congress to include the text of the Small Farm Conservation Act in the 2023 Farm Bill.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units. If only my attempts at patchwork quilting looked as neat as this, I thought.

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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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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

This chemical process is called pyrolysis, and produces charcoal, or, biochar. Creating Biochar: Methods and Processes Biochar can be produced using specialized biochar kilns or through traditional methods like pile burning. Portuguese settlers called these Amazonian soils terra preito do indo which means Indian black earth.

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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. They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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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. Companies often blend natural with plastic fibers, adding dyes and finishes, and blends are particularly hard to recycle because the components require different processes.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This refers to the natural processes by which all living things eventually die, decay and under normal circumstances return to the earth to be recycled. What he could not have known is that the processes he describes, depend, amongst other things, on the action of mycorrhizal fungi.

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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.

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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. This consolidation not only happened horizontally, with farms buying out other farms, but also vertically , with everything from production to processing owned by one agribusiness firm.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

The agency also brought on partners including the Land Loss Prevention Project and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives to get the word out about the program and help guide farmers through the application process. resembling commodity agriculture systems based on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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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. This consolidation not only happened horizontally, with farms buying out other farms, but also vertically , with everything from production to processing owned by one agribusiness firm.

Food 52

Food Agriculture Agriculture Plantation 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

There’s no ingredients we’re bringing to the process that’s any different than what an animal uses to grow,” says David Kaplan , a biomedical engineer who leads a cellular agriculture lab at Tufts University. So can we involve them in this process?” He argues that it’s as safe as traditional meat.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Farmers euthanized (that means killed and threw away) millions of chickens, turkeys, and hogs because mega-processing plants couldn’t maintain operations. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. The food police are fine with chlorinated chicken and red dye 29, but criminalize home-processed chicken and homemade pepperoni.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. 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.

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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And with the farm bill process punted to next year and still no end in sight on the many spending bills Congress plans to pass, their future remains uncertain. What Role Does Farmland Play? Why Aren’t Federal Agencies Enforcing Pesticide Rules That Protect Farmworkers? The storms can also destroy crops and harm livestock.

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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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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. But really, this is all driven by the members.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Bill Jordan, a consultant and volunteer with the Environmental Protection Network who worked at the EPA for 40 years and was the former deputy director of the agency’s pesticide office, said the human health risks any pesticide poses depend on both the toxicity of the ingredients and the amount of exposure a person experiences when they use it.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars. As a result, the portion of the U.S. corn crop devoted to the fuel rose from 11 percent in 2004 to 30 percent in 2015 , where it has held steady.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In the report, farmworkers shared experiences that put their health and safety at risk, including broken windows and lack of heat in farmworker housing on New York dairy farms, injuries from malfunctioning equipment, sexual harassment, and pesticide exposure. Others are in direct conflict with Trump’s actions during his first presidency.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

But during a press conference Monday, Vilsack defended the process. President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting about reducing the costs of meat through increased competition in the meat processing industry in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 3, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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