Pesticide Plantation Ranching 
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.”
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.
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Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
Pesticides can harm or kill mammals and can also reduce prey and attract invasive species that compete with native mammals for resources, explained Gaurav Singh-Varma, a researcher at the University of British Columbia. And that’s not the only bad news. to natural reference conditions,” said Kuipers. Photo CC-licensed by Bethany Week, U.S.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 9, 2024
In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 10, 2024
And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more. A field of Hopi corn, nonirrigated, grown with no herbicides, pesticides, or soil amenities such as nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Soil is alive.
The Equation
OCTOBER 24, 2024
million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. Though the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to face economic duress and violence to maintain the plantation-style economic system.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 23, 2024
On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).
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