Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field. The widespread practice, which took place through the late aughts, “had a deleterious effect on soil quality,” says Richard H.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau presented Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

In the 1970s, entrepreneurs introduced a species of seaweed off Hawaii, intending to manufacture a food thickener. Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Its not overly reductive to say it boils down to a half century of intentional federal farm policy. In the years after World War II, U.S. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Today in America, food arguably divides people more than it unites them, thanks in part to decades of manufactured controversy, done for political gain and corporate profit. Larry Kudlow, a former Trump adviser, said Americans would have to “ throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts ” on July 4.

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