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How sustainable farming is paying off for Australian farmers

Agritecture Blog

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Other projects aim to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of beef and dairy herds by more carefully managing how these animals graze pastures, so their manure can feed perennial grasses and other plants whose roots pull carbon deep into the soil. Officials say that payments to cover the startup costs for enrolled farmers are essential. “If

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Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

Civil Eats

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. Such shocks to the food system are evidence of some of the inherent weaknesses of an industrialized and highly concentrated agriculture sector. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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The Upcoming Farm Bill: What’s Needed (Courtesy of Civil Eats)

Food Politics

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. production has not kept pace.

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This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.

Civil Eats

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. production has not kept pace.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. ” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here.