Grain Industrial Agriculture Livestock 
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. At the same time, small and mid-sized farms are being driven out of existence.
Modern Farmer
JULY 12, 2024
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.
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Civil Eats
APRIL 8, 2024
The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Everybody had livestock of one sort or another,” said Gilbert. Integrated livestock and crops, that was pretty much standard.” And if you don’t have that, well, then [prices] struggle.
Daily Yonder
MARCH 14, 2024
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Drop a pin anywhere in Cornwall, England and you are likely to find a higgledy-piggledy arrangement of small green fields separated by wiggly lines of dark green hedgerows, hinting at the pastureland for the livestock-based agriculture which predominates there.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. 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 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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