Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines. Neighbors need to work together.”

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Marbleseed National Bison Association National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Pesticide Action Network (national, and CA, MN, IA, HI) Simple Mills Soil and Water Conservation Society Union of Concerned Scientists Waterkeeper Alliance Wild Farm Alliance Midwest and South Businesses and Organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (NC, SC) (..)

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. farmland is regularly cover cropped. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says 70 percent of the state’s nitrate pollution is coming from cropland. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 137

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. There are a few important things to understand about the IRA.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Adeeb: There was a loss of farmland, farm traditions, knowledge, and skills being passed from one generation to the other due to migration. Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. Eulalia Williams.

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