Grain Industrial Agriculture Yield 
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.
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.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
According to the techno-optimists, hacking photosynthesis by genetically modifying rubisco, the enzyme found in all plants that turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into starches, proteins, and other nutrients will allow us to radically increase rice yields in Asia. Photo submitted.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. ppm for nitrates. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center. Im building the soil.
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.
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