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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By Pollard said Cream Co.

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On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

Modern Farmer

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. 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.

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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

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. You don’t have to own a farm or a ranch to make meaningful change,” says rancher Gabe Brown, of Brown’s Ranch in North Dakota. “It

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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. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner.

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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. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.