Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The first farm bills, a product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and drought-driven Dust Bowl catastrophe. SNAP, which eats up 80 percent of the bills’ total budget, currently serves 41 million low-income Americans.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Of course, when I arrived it didn’t take me long to find out about the curiously perfect squares.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the UK, 60% of adults are either overweight or obese, a figure expected to rise to 80% by 2060, with huge costs to society in terms of lost workforce productivity, shortened lives and NHS treatments. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

of US gross domestic product (GDP) and employing more than 22 million people. Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd. Case in point: The fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have to pollute our rivers, oceans, and drinking water. I consider myself a product of the big, robust garden you cultivated. You have taught me to always speak the truth and think critically.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

We are challenging an entire model of production that threatens not just Mexico, but the world.” What stops significant traces of the insecticidal toxins from entering US and Canadian food supplies is the dominance of highly processed corn oils and cereals, the production of which breaks them down.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

He denied that meat is making climate change worse, and presented the alternatives to be banned as a plot against the meat industry. One of the things that these folks want to do, is they want to eliminate meat production in the United States,” DeSantis said at his press briefing. The budding industry has raised $3.1

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone. According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. Big Ag is a major polluter.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

It required that these funds be used for practices that “improve soil carbon, reduce nitrogen losses, or reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions associated with agricultural production.” The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices.

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The Equation

MARCH 13, 2025

Linked to industrial agriculture, bird flu has no simple fixes HPAI is a zoonotic disease , an infectious illness that can be transmitted between animals and humans. Essentially, the plan doubles down on global industrial egg production. Or does it? Critics panned that suggestion , and for good reasons.

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