Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” That’s what’s going to help drive your fertilizer prices where they should be between supply and demand. billion fertilizer plant to Iowa.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

(Photo: Shutterstock) Although China, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines still account for more than 95 percent of global production, farms in North America – particularly British Columbia, Alaska, and Maine – are cropping up to meet demand. It’s also relatively cheap.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Alexander starts with the pea which developed widely across the globe beginning in the Fertile Crescent, where it dates back 8500 years to Neolithic settlements. This will be made possible by a completely new kind of food production – precision fermentation – which will take some of the pressure off the land.”

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

million in 1920 to just over 2 million in 2020), centralizing power and production in the hands of a few, at the expense of the small local farmer. This in turn has led to increases in climate-warming emissions from the agricultural sector. Much of their land is forested, sequestering carbon that would otherwise be in the atmosphere.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases. You can also look up recipes for DIY (Do It Yourself) hygiene and cleaning products.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. Back at the barn, companies that sell their products at The Mill had set up folding tables to talk to farmers and hand out swag. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

of US gross domestic product (GDP) and employing more than 22 million people. 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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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

It required that these funds be used for practices that “improve soil carbon, reduce nitrogen losses, or reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions associated with agricultural production.” The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. The emerging market for climate-friendly products, he added, represents “a transformational opportunity for U.S. agriculture.”

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture. Fertilizer runoff can also affect urban communities downstream.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. In fact, the Toxic Substances Control Act banned them in 1979 from further production in the United States. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The first farm bills, a product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and drought-driven Dust Bowl catastrophe. SNAP, which eats up 80 percent of the bills’ total budget, currently serves 41 million low-income Americans.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

Many cancers are linked to nitrates , which are found in drinking water contaminated with manure or nitrogen fertilizer, and advocates are concerned about the link. Although the state is known for hog production— hogs outnumber people 7:1 —the number of cattle in Iowa feedlots is increasing, too.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves suggests ten actions that could be applied at landscape-scale across Wales to enable farming to protect and enhance the environment – from rewarding nature-friendly farming practices, to investing in farmer education, rewetting peatland and increasing vegetable production to enable self-sufficiency.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert. At home, they ran in local punk circles, and a trace of anti-establishment nonconformity has colored their work in agriculture. billion in 2012 to $51.7

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” The past 10 years have demonstrated that practical, user-facing tech on the production side can make a difference in what consumers (e.g. anyone who eats!) Crops take time to grow.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. And they will use one or two orders of magnitude less water, with no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

We are challenging an entire model of production that threatens not just Mexico, but the world.” What stops significant traces of the insecticidal toxins from entering US and Canadian food supplies is the dominance of highly processed corn oils and cereals, the production of which breaks them down. It’s a powerful pitch.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd. Case in point: The fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have to pollute our rivers, oceans, and drinking water. I consider myself a product of the big, robust garden you cultivated. You have taught me to always speak the truth and think critically.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2025

This is an incredibly productive, resilient, and sustainable system, said Pea, founder of The Acequia Institute , a nonprofit that supports environmental and food justice in southern Colorado. In the San Luis Valley as a whole, 130 gravity-flow ditches irrigated 30,000 acres of farmland and 10,000 acres of wetlands.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Each year, these plantations generate about $50 million in revenue for the Ocho Sur group, whose palm oil has ended up in products ranging from Cheetos to Colgate toothpaste. “The Peruvian industry needs scale,” he said in a draft report he prepared in 2010. The smaller property, Zanja Seca, is nearly the size of Manhattan.

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