Industrial Agriculture Ruralism Yield 
Food Tank
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. In Mexico, climate change has caused a decline in yields—including a 35 percent reduction in the bean crop while increasingly ferocious hurricanes have wiped out fruit crops. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?
National Young Farmers Coalition
JUNE 26, 2024
Conservation funds should focus on tried-and-true practices and farmer-led innovation that can be used by small- to mid-scale farmers who make up most of our farms and rural communities. (Sec. 4306) TITLE VI: Rural Development GREEN FLAG Reaffirms commitment to vital rural development initiatives. 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411).
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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. We talk about yield all the time, but what’s our [return on investment] per acre? Many farmers regularly over-apply fertilizer to their crop as a sort of insurance to keep yields high.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He grows organic vegetables and industrial hemp, as well as wheat, soybeans, and corn.
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. One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. At another, a scientist presented research on a new class of nitrogen-fixing inputs.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S.
Sustainable Food Trust
MAY 31, 2023
The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.
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