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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Ask a Scientist: Stopping Big Ag from Hijacking US Farm and Food Policy

The Equation

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

Food 121
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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Young Farmers’ Analysis of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024

National Young Farmers Coalition

Buy-protect-sell is a measure that Young Farmers advocated for in the 2018 Farm Bill, alongside our partners, that enables land trusts to utilize ACEP funds to move quickly in getting priority farmland off the open market and facilitate a sale to a farmer or rancher. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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