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The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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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Modern Farmer
APRIL 24, 2024
As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.
The Equation
MARCH 28, 2023
The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. So there is a lot of space for climate mitigation as well.
Sustainable Food Trust
AUGUST 6, 2024
We have indeed lost the meaning and importance of food in an increasingly homogenised landscape of ultra-processed products, and this is something we should be deeply concerned about. Unfortunately, most hedgerows are now flailed in the autumn, a brutal process that is likely to leave them “degraded habitat” according to the charity, Buglife.
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. standards,” he writes in an email.
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. At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon.
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