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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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Four companies control more than 70 percent of the pork industry (JBS, Tyson, Smithfield, and Hormel), and four companies control more than half the chicken processing market (JBS, Perdue, Tyson, and Sanderson).

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. They can hear sounds.

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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. ” Land O’Lakes’ Truterra is unique in some ways, but it also fits the mold of what agricultural carbon markets have come to look like across the country over the last few years.

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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. Another research-related marker bill aims to fund studies on regionally adapted seeds and animal breeds.

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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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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. Another research-related marker bill aims to fund studies on regionally adapted seeds and animal breeds.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” 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. Oil palm fruits being processed at Ocho Sur’s mill in Ucayali.

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