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Precision Ag News 2/19

Agwired

The answer…soy-based textiles which are on the rise. Soy announces Clara Padgham from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the national winner of the NEXTILE: The Soy in Textile Design Challenge. Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer.

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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

Modern Farmer

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. Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In both cases, its the initial conversion of undisturbed land to farmland that has the biggest impact.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. He sells the hemp to BioPhil Natural Fibers in Lumberton, which processes it into woven materials, textiles, and clothing. Theres hardly any of us left.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. It wasn’t much, but they had only to cross the river to hunt wild game, gather native fruits, and harvest natural dyes for pottery and textiles they sold in local markets.