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. There are currently no policies around farm size or native seed collection in British Columbia. Still, there are no national regulations monitoring seaweed farming.

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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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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. Pro tip from Kate : Before recycling plastic, consider how it can be reused.

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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. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens Seeding Empire connects the dots between some of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to those taking place across the African continent today.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503). GREEN FLAG Significantly enhances support for 1890s Land Grant Institutions. 7111, 7114, 7208).

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. So if we get back to traditional foods through traditional ecological knowledge, we won’t have the full-scale destruction brought on by industrial agriculture. When we build community, we know who has the seeds.

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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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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

But once they’ve bought equipment like seed drills for no-till planting and climbed the learning curve, he and Hohenstein say, reduced input costs, yield increases resulting from healthier soils, and premiums for climate-smart products will start to pay for themselves. If this stuff was free, folks would already be doing it,” Bonnie says.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. The elders refer to the USDA as the last plantation, she says.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. ‘No-till’ The land is a constant, withstanding generational change in personnel, methodology, and even land use.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their use has helped Plantix’s AI grow more accurate while collecting information that could prove invaluable to crop buyers, seed sellers, tool manufacturers, loan lenders, insurance providers, and pesticide sellers. Some growers use the app weekly or even daily, contributing to a deep and detailed real-time image of farming across India.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Without requiring research that could flag potential harm, the FDA simply believes industry claims.

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ProAg

JULY 20, 2023

An Agricultural Competition Partnership, launched by the Biden administration, is seeking to “crackdown on price-gouging and other anti-competitive practices in food and agriculture markets.” President Biden announced the creation of a new “Farmer Seed Liaison” that will work with patent issues in the seed industry.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. They can hear sounds.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Klein Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems: From Soil to Soil by Julia Freedgood Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat by Chloe Sorvino Reversing Deforestation: How Market Forces and Local Ownership Are Saving Forests in Latin America by Brent Sohngen and Douglas Southgate Seeding Empire: American (..)

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. Such shocks to the food system are evidence of some of the inherent weaknesses of an industrialized and highly concentrated agriculture sector. My small flock represents one additional node in the food production network.

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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. “Oh, f**k,” he remembered thinking.

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