Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture Ruralism 
Food Tank
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. The country has pioneered a move towards agroecology for two decades and has already seen a 4 percent improvement in rural food security. Many farmers, for example, farmers are now producing drought-resistant nopal cacti to feed their livestock.
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. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S.
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Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.
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.
Daily Yonder
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Displaced from the Land As Euro-Americans settled permanently on the most fertile North American lands and acquired seeds that Native growers had carefully bred, they imposed policies that made Native farming practices impossible. The monocropping industrial agricultural systems that produce much of the U.S.
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.
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