Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

In 2002, Kalbach lived on a small farm in Adair County, Iowa—a rural community that today has a population of less than 8,000. The impact is felt in both rural and urban communities. “I We can make different policy decisions that actually create a system that is better for farmers [and] better for rural communities.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

In 2002, Kalbach lived on a small farm in Adair County, Iowa—a rural community that today has a population of less than 8,000. The impact is felt in both rural and urban communities. “I We can make different policy decisions that actually create a system that is better for farmers [and] better for rural communities.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

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. I think it’s pretty safe to argue that Bayer and other pesticide manufacturers were interested in data because they saw it as a way to potentially increase sales.”

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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. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s where an oversized welcome sign to rural Pierson, Florida, flanked on each side with American flags, greets visitors right across from a local feed store. In other fields, the environment is manufactured. The early morning, late summer fog still clings to wide open grassy areas along a quiet stretch of US Highway 17.

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Basil Gooden as USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development. The Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI) Foundation announced that its building will be named after Bill Northey and simply called “The Northey Building”. cotton acres. Saying U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

The ability to manufacture cold has shaped not just our diet and health, she argues, but our economy, landscape, and geopolitics. Civil Eats spoke with Twilley about her book, how refrigeration has transformed our relationship with food, and the implications of feeding the world’s seemingly insatiable appetite for manufactured cold.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The lines would start just south of Sunbury at a sprawling substation and then traverse a stretch of farming tracts and country homes within a rural township until they reached two substations northeast of New Albany. In Ohio and across the country, rural communities are pushing back on the proliferation of data centersoften to no avail.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops. In October, the administration unveiled a national strategy to reduce food waste , which is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Bidens USDA also invested $2.2

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