The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By properly layering flavors at every stage of the cooking process to give vegetables the respect she believes they deserve, Vora aims to show that it’s possible to create satisfying meals without relying on crutches like cheese and butter. Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find.

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. They can ask questions, learn where the produce came from, and determine what inputs were used in the production process.

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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. Community organizers, under the group name Citizens Protecting Rural Wisconsin , argued that digesters aren’t the solution that they seem to be. This plan aims to develop the industry further.

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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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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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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The battle inspired Trom Eayrs to become a rural activist and help other communities fight what she calls a CAFO “takeover” of the Midwest. And it prompted her to write a book about her late parents’ experiences: Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America , published on November 1. “It I know their playbook.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. They’re getting a tremendous amount of data from the farmer-participants.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet these qualities are their superpowers, making these food systems resilient, nutritious, and far more secure than industrial agriculture. Industrial agricultures focus on growing these nine crops contributes significantly to deforestation and ecosystem degradation.

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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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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. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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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. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Now, the disappearing water is threatening more than just agriculture. Rural communities are facing dire futures where water is no longer a certainty. Across the Ogallala, small towns and cities built around agriculture are facing a twisted threat: The very industry that made their communities might just eradicate them. .”

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Earlier this month, however, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) quietly introduced a spending bill amendment that mirrored one introduced earlier in the summer by Representative Keith Self (R-Texas) in the House to halt the process. Read More: Inside the Rural Resistance to CAFOs Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work.

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