Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. In the larger scope, agriculture accounts for a small slice of the plastics pie—less than 3 percent of the annual 440 million tons produced worldwide.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This morning, while he waits for help, he reaches a pitchfork up into a back compartment of the machine to pull out the straw that got stuck. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. Oh, what a day, he says. I cant cut wheat until I get that fixed.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb. Photo credit: Adam Cobb) “We never leave our soil bare.

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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2023

Called the Nigiri Project for its fish-on-rice concept, it’s a collaboration between researchers and farmers that floods rice fields in the winter, helping to break down rice straw while offering juvenile salmon and waterfowl conditions that mimic the bug-rich floodplain ecosystems to which they’re adapted. Juvenile Chinook salmon.

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Food Straw Science Farmland 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. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Polyester was once thought to be a wonder fiber. It turns out the miracle thread made from oil isn’t so recyclable. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 115

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. It may be that in such situations, no-till does bring advantages over ploughing.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52