Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Animals, both on land and in the waters, have a harder time migrating to food or to mate when surrounded by roads. For those herds, which have to migrate across the landscape to reach food and resources at different times of the year, roads can be a total impediment to their movement.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. Mattia had worked in the food industry prior to launching his snail farm, and during that time, he developed a passion for high-quality food and ingredients. It is located on 1.2 It is located on 1.2

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

National Businesses and Organizations American Sustainable Business Network Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) Carbon180 Defenders of Wildlife Earthjustice Environmental Policy Innovation Center Environmental Working Group Farm Aid HEAL Food Alliance Healthy Food Strategies Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, (..)

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. But, like others, he convened them at hotel conference centers where food, logistics, and setting were always an issue. Here on the farm, we don't have to vie with other organizations in the same space or fight with the dining services to offer decent food.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

agriculture, including boosting agricultural exports, facilitating food and agriculture trade, and knocking down unnecessary trade barriers. with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

full_link LEARN MORE How farmers are adapting to Phoenix’s rising temperatures to keep growing food. But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. It’s complicated.

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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. Credit: Green Left. Credit: Government of Western Australia.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

This workaround became more difficult in June 2023, when the Food and Drug Administration tightened access to antibiotics in an effort to combat bacterial resistance; some of these drugs had long been available over the counter. The nation’s food system depends on farmers and ranchers. A veterinarian’s prescription is now required.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

This has impacts on the health of soils and coastal waters , both of which are critical to the health and prosperity of our food supply. We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Diversity of food crops and flowering annuals. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. I sit on the garden porch and reflect on the various practices I have incorporated here. Legume and grass covers. Rotations according to families.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. Landowners Cobb leased from were similarly averse to mixing things up.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. These types of questions will help you get a sense for whether or not this property would work well for growing food crops or raising livestock—and how much work may be involved in bringing it back into production if it hasn't been used recently (or ever).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Fueling this rise is a surging appetite for seaweed as a food and an ingredient, and the hope that it could play an important role in mitigating climate change. In the 1970s, entrepreneurs introduced a species of seaweed off Hawaii, intending to manufacture a food thickener. Another, Marine Bioenergy Inc.,

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” Some years we let our fall brassicas grow as our winter cover crop, which saves time and seed costs, but also lets there be some rocking late season food for pollinators!

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 4 million readers a year 200k social reach Yale Environment 360 A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a nascent U.S. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Editor’s Note: Food waste is both a local and global problem. Emitting more GHGs than any country other than the US or China, food waste is also a major reason why millions of people around the world struggle to get enough quality nutrition. That's money that could go towards helping people have access to the foods that they need."

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food. But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. Residents periodically pop out of doors to grab food, gossip about the neighbors and scan for danger.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

From 2020-2022 CAFF partnered with fifteen farms across California to develop and update their food safety practices. CAFF’s Partner Farm Program is an in-depth partnership between a farm and CAFF food safety staff. The farmer(s) share their story with other local growers and show food safety changes (e.g.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. How do you decide what is a culturally meaningful food? It’s incumbent on us to reclaim that.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Before long, you’ll be hypnotized by the shimmering green blanket of corn and soybeans that fuels our industrial food system. These crops are the raw materials the food industry transforms into the dizzying array of products that fill hundreds of millions of bellies every day. cropland an area equal to 1.7 Californias.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies. Agriculture and food are not synonymous, but that’s for another day.) That deal starts with SNAP, which today provides food assistance to roughly 42 million Americans.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The relevant story, for our purposes, is in the op-ed’s headline: “A New Low in the Radical Left’s Culture War: The Weaponization of Food.” The “weaponization of food” is nothing new, of course. For as long as there has been human conflict, food has been used as a weapon. Food, in other words, became cool.

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