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Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Now, the disappearing water is threatening more than just agriculture. Rural communities are facing dire futures where water is no longer a certainty. Across the Ogallala, small towns and cities built around agriculture are facing a twisted threat: The very industry that made their communities might just eradicate them.
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
Drawing from decades of field research, he argues that the answer is in strategies that are based in colonial agricultural science. But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities.
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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. It’s an overdue censure.
Civil Eats
APRIL 8, 2024
The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Over the past two years, nitrogen fertilizer and grain prices have both skyrocketed in large part due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. And if you don’t have that, well, then [prices] struggle.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He grows organic vegetables and industrial hemp, as well as wheat, soybeans, and corn.
Civil Eats
JULY 9, 2024
From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. It’s not worth my time,” said Josh Manske, who manages commodity grain fields in Iowa and Southern Minnesota.
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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