Industrial Agriculture Manure Marketing 
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 13, 2024
Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Today, Kimbirauskas is the Senior Director of Agriculture and Food Systems at the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. The community wanted to avoid the issues they’d heard about in Sunnyside, a small town about 50 miles east of the Yakima Reservation.
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Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. The community wanted to avoid the issues they’d heard about in Sunnyside, a small town about 50 miles east of the Yakima Reservation.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 13, 2024
Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Today, Kimbirauskas is the Senior Director of Agriculture and Food Systems at the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).
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.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Second, as I mentioned earlier, my work is very much rooted in my own personal experiences.
Sustainable Harvest International
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.
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