Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Use public information and learn the laws The industry isn’t going to publicize their plans, so seeking out information that is in the public domain but not advertised is a skill worth learning. However, the process for getting access to public records looks different everywhere, says Kendra Kimbirauskas of State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co. Pollard said Cream Co.

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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 the process of turning these components into soil is incredibly slow and microscopic. But soil is not just bits of rock and dust. Liz Carlisle in her garden.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture. The ARA does just that: it includes agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, while linking climate change to human health and focusing on strategies for small and medium-sized farmers.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, some of these processes are natural—but healthy soils have the resiliency to resist excess erosion, whereas degraded soils are more vulnerable to even natural climatic cycles.

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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. Unlike Utesch, Mardesen of A-Frame Acres does use antibiotics to treat a pig if it falls ill, but he uses a strict documentation process.

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The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

Here are the marker bills UCS has endorsed so far: Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) Justice for Black Farmers Act (JFBFA) Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act (PAMWA) Food and Farm Act Strengthening Local Processing Act Farm System Reform Act Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act Protect America’s Children from Toxic (..)

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate. Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process. Since most U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

At the same time, diets are becoming increasingly ultra-processed at the expense of nutritious whole foods. Ultra-processed foods currently make up 57% of our diets. Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

There’s no ingredients we’re bringing to the process that’s any different than what an animal uses to grow,” says David Kaplan , a biomedical engineer who leads a cellular agriculture lab at Tufts University. In reality, there is a very long way to go before cultivated meat could really cut into the meat industry.

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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. The field is further ingrained in the local and state economy.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. For many years, Europeans and Americans took whatever they found in these and other biodiverse places without asking, or paying, anyone.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Qualifications Educational and Work Experience High school diploma or equivalent At least 2 years experience working in a marketing or communications position Experience working with the local food industry, agriculture or related fields preferred. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The city’s largest water user and employer is a massive pork plant that slaughters and processes more than 20,000 hogs per day. Shannon said the city, industry and agricultural producers must work together. But for decades, the state’s regulation of water benefited its largest user and its largest industry: agriculture.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill also provides new authority to allow USDA to refinance farm loans for distressed borrowers, although some of this flexibility was stripped back during the amendment process. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA. This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

In 2023, the Biden administration formed an interagency working group to examine consolidation in the seed industry, but that’s a long way from action to curb the seed giants’ control of this most basic of resources. Food processing Tyson is the poster child for industry domination by a single too-big food company.

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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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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Gilbert’s concerns are not unfounded: Monopolies dominate many aspects of agriculture in the U.S. And if you don’t have that, well, then [prices] struggle. And then it makes everybody struggle.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We need to rebuild those connections with our traditional foods, those really visceral memories of processing wild rice and cutting up bison meat to hang and dry. Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. Linda Black Elk (third from left) and others butcher a bison.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Even though the companies tout precision agriculture and data broadly as a way to reduce inputs, it’s really hard to imagine a world in which manufacturers of a product are going to tell their customers to buy and use less of their products.”

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Claimants were supposed to receive payments soon after, but because of confusing paperwork and processing issues, very few did. Its like full circle. Farming for us was like a chore, he says. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s the people in the world’s rich nations, as well as the growing middle classes in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, who consume diets high in processed foods and grain-fed meat and dairy that keep us hurtling toward that brick wall.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. We run into instances where producers signed up, the process takes too long sometimes and they give up,” he said.

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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.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver The culmination of four years of intensive reporting, Life and Death of the American Worker documents the daily struggles and workplace injustices that led workers to bring a lawsuit against meat processing giant Tyson Foods.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. The [manager] said, ‘This is not a feedlot; it’s a renewable energy project.

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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. Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes. Crops take time to grow.

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