Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Our taxpayer dollars are propping up some of the largest industrial agriculture operations in the country, allowing the big to get bigger. We need Congress to reevaluate the subsidies provided to big ag, and prioritize farmers growing and raising nutritious food for our nation.
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots by Shane Mitchell Shane Mitchell spent nine years tracking down the history of fruits, vegetables, and grains in the American South to understand the regions relationship to food.
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Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units.
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. So they’re working to highlight how perennial grains can help rebuild soils. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption. The market for organic food, which has more than doubled in a decade, accounted for $58 billion in sales in 2021 in the United States alone. Photo submitted.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.
The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
When soil erosion and climate change collide We’ve all seen grainy historical photos of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s —a nearly decade-long confluence of recurring severe droughts, poor farming practices, and plummeting grain prices that devastated much of the Great Plains and drove the largest migration in US history.
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