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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

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If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. Pollution from Tyson farmers’ corn and soybean fields and poultry and beef CAFOs, for example, has severely impacted Midwest waterways.

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As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge from the Marshes

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Over the years, the construction industry has used salt hay for insulation, livestock farmers use it for animal bedding, and berry growers mulch with it, since it is naturally free of weed seeds. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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