Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link] Position Summary Seeking a bilingual communications professional with a passion for farms, a curiosity for technology, and a commitment to a more equitable future for the San Joaquin Valley. F3 entails multiple partners and industry reps.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014. As for the politics of crop insurance, basically the policies have become increasingly complicated and increasingly tailored to a variety of different farmers’ needs, including those of small-scale and specialty crop growers.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But for decades, the state’s regulation of water benefited its largest user and its largest industry: agriculture. Farmers, he said, should embrace new technologies such as more efficient irrigation systems and drought-resistant crops.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Few thinkers describe this more convincingly than Wendell Berry when he evinces the many unintended disasters of industrial agriculture, which has, for its part, tended to trivialize such disasters as unconnected, inconsequential, or unavoidable collateral damage. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The environmental impacts of certain types of livestock production and other industrial agriculture are well-known. “What are the practices, what are the technologies, that are able to bring those adaptations to the farmers? “There’s no alternative but to take that into account. It’s more the ‘How?’”

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Klein focus on four major areas of change: the commodification of food production, new food technologies, new culinary identities, and migration. Today, that number is less than 1 percent.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. 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.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment. These researchers, communities and advocates are working hard to resist the greenwashing of this technology—and sometimes they succeed.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The House Farm Bill reauthorizes several longstanding, small, but impactful rural development programs, such as the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program, Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas, Rural Business Development Grants, and Rural Cooperative Development Grants. 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411). 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vipula Shukla, GATES FOUNDATION Vipula Shukla, Senior Program Officer, Agriculture R&D, THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION : “The hero is always the progressive, technology-driven farmer/producer who understands what does and does not add value to their operation. HarvestHero is winning, barely. anyone who eats!)

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mann calls them “wizards”–telling us that technology will come to our rescue. In self-defense, teach yourself about the economy and technology of food production and how industry adds to and alters food. In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Even though the companies tout precision agriculture and data broadly as a way to reduce inputs, it’s really hard to imagine a world in which manufacturers of a product are going to tell their customers to buy and use less of their products.” That’s a good thing. We want that,” he said. “I

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Problem With Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food by Julie Guthman A critique of the technological fixes that Silicon Valley offers to the food crisis, The Problem With Solutions urges the reader to think critically and contextually about the issues the food system faces.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

(Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture. So, when we try to farm at these very large scales.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This was potentially world-altering technology. It’s an all-too-familiar story for mission-driven agritech startups, one that illuminates the bargains even the most idealistic of entrepreneurs must strike to survive in a savage industry. Rene Ebersole , June 12, 2018 5 Can rock dust be a climate fix for agriculture?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

It required only that technology developers provide the FDA with minimal data showing that the nutritional composition of the GM crops is “substantially equivalent” to the non-engineered version, and hence safe. “The The Mexican decree is not the only regional brushfire the US government and biotech industry are eager to extinguish.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

She was a master at connecting the dots, and the fact that most of us understand food and agriculture as a single system, linking policy, soil, nutrition, public health, and technology, owes in large part to the work Joan did. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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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. Obviously, they’re alive—but how alive, exactly?

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Peter Schollierss A History of Bread explores what this staple food can tell us about food policy, consumption patterns, and technology. Three hundred years ago, Europeans spent a third of their total household expenditure on bread, but today, thats less than 1 percent. By asking a simple questionwhy?Peter Moseley asks a simple questionwhy?

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Many landlords evicted their tenant farmers and sharecroppers as they invested in new machinery, and policymakers continued to support the emergence of industrialized agriculture. Black farmers tried to hold together by forming cooperatives.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

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