Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It works with manufacturers and producers of agricultural plastic to recycle products on its behalf. million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags. McDaniel also questions why the onus to recycle is on the grower and not the company that manufactures the product.

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Agwired

MAY 31, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is investing in domestic fertilizer projects to strengthen competition for U.S. Its efforts support adoption of management systems to improve soil health, the foundation for regenerative agriculture. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. The incentives were helpful.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

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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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. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Civil Eats

JULY 22, 2024

CRP enabled Andrews to preserve the land, restore its fertility, and sequester carbon, because instead of a farmer paying him to rent the cropland, the government paid him—less, but enough—to fallow it. I told him I was going to put it in CRP, and he said he didn’t blame me. That’s what I ended up doing.”

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