Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month. The field is further ingrained in the local and state economy.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes. Crops take time to grow.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

Anaerobic digestion creates a mixture of gases, which can be used for electricity or further processed into fuel for vehicles. A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. Greenhouse gas emissions aren’t the only problems in factory farms.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Conspiracy Theories and an Ongoing Culture War Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have shown that livestock accounts for anywhere between 11 and 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from land use and cow burps. In reality, there is a very long way to go before cultivated meat could really cut into the meat industry.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

.” Land O’Lakes’ Truterra is unique in some ways, but it also fits the mold of what agricultural carbon markets have come to look like across the country over the last few years. Carbon markets were first created decades ago as a means for companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by paying to reduce emissions somewhere else.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet these qualities are their superpowers, making these food systems resilient, nutritious, and far more secure than industrial agriculture. Industrial agricultures focus on growing these nine crops contributes significantly to deforestation and ecosystem degradation.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. We run into instances where producers signed up, the process takes too long sometimes and they give up,” he said. billion more for EQIP and $3.25

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But we have to better use those programs to nourish more people to advance health equity, and to support farmers who are growing crops that nourish our communities in the process. Many of us think about factory farming or industrial agriculture as something that has been around forever, or at least for a really long time.

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