NASDA

MAY 10, 2024

Letter Dear Chairman Simpson and Ranking Member Pingree: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) commends the subcommittee for its work in support of farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. FIFRA STAG – Pesticide Enforcement Program: $25.58

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Pesticide Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 130

NASDA

MAY 10, 2024

Letter Dear Chairman Merkley and Ranking Member Murkowski: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) commends the subcommittee for its work in support of farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. FIFRA STAG – Pesticide Enforcement Program: $25.58

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Pesticide Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 130

Berkeley Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Public water wells in communities of color might be disproportionately polluted by pesticides contaminated with harmful per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

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Pesticide Ruralism 91

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

territories.

Rural Development 221

Rural Development Agriculture Agriculture Animal Agriculture 221

The Equation

MAY 13, 2024

Especially when it means I can breathe outside because there is no pesticide drift, wildfire smoke, vehicle exhaust, or pungent odors. In addition, Merced County applies more than 10 million pounds of pesticides per year that contribute to the area’s poor air quality. I am into air quality. These particles are categorized by size.

Ruralism 129

Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 129

NASDA

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As co-regulatory partners with EPA committed to preserving environmental stewardship, protecting the rural economy and securing a healthy food supply chain, NASDA commends EPA on issuing an existing stocks order for dicamba that is inclusive of products that are in the possession of growers or in the channels of trade.

Agriculture 278

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Ruralism 278

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” During the three intervening years, Strey and her team had reshaped Plantix from a tool they hoped would help reduce global pesticide use into an app that would make it easier for farmers to buy pesticides.

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Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 82

The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

These hazards include climate change , pesticide exposure , and food insecurity , and the risks are at their greatest during the summer months UCS calls Danger Season because of the overlapping impacts of extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and floods. What does that do?

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Pesticide Mechanics Food Science 116

Daily Yonder

JULY 31, 2023

Rural communities of color like Sultana, which is majority Hispanic, are disproportionately affected by this crisis. The racial and rural water gap has its roots in historic neglect. I keep telling the state: what they need to do is get off their chair, come to the valley, and see all the rural communities,” Prado said.

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Ruralism Rural Development Agriculture Agriculture 76

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The team estimated the environmental and socioeconomic costs and benefits of retiring and repurposing cropland within a mile of 154 rural disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley. Example of cropland within and one mile around several rural disadvantaged communities in Tulare County. square miles).

Ruralism 125

Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 125

Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming. Climate resilience requires broad participation from the most vulnerable farmers who are rural women dependent on natural resources for their well-being. These markets are large and important to local producers.

Agroecology 125

Agroecology Marketing Food Finance 125

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

territories.

Rural Development 189

Rural Development Agriculture Agriculture Animal Agriculture 189

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

1) Agrochemical production consumes fossil fuels to generate pesticides, fertilizers, and other inputs. But rural America still relies on electrical co-ops , which depend mostly on fossil fuels. ” In addition, pesticides and fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels. There is some hope for change, though.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture Food 143

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. This story originally appeared on Reasons to Be Chee rful , and is reprinted here with permission. We dont do your typical 14-inch spaced rows, he says.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. And its not just our farmers and ranchers who are affected, its their local communities scattered all across rural America that have decayed right alongside them. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 95

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. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

I may be a romantic, but I firmly believe that we can reimagine agriculture, rural disadvantaged communities and the environment in a way that makes everyone happy. I have engaged with hundreds of stakeholders in rural California, agreeing often and disagreeing sometimes.

Ruralism 95

Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 95

NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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Crop Ruralism Forestry Agriculture 130

ProAg

AUGUST 24, 2023

A rural sociology professor at Iowa State University led a survey that questioned more than 350 certified crop advisers nationwide. 85% of respondents agreed farmers are going to have to change their mindsets to effectively manage pesticide resistance instead of waiting for a ”silver bullet” that likely won’t ever come.

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Crop Pesticide Ruralism 96

ATTRA

AUGUST 9, 2024

Eating organic produce reduces dietary exposure to pesticides, while farming organically drastically improves the health of those growing our food by limiting chemical exposure from pesticide application. Finally, the higher premiums associated with organic products enhance farmers’ livelihoods and boost rural economies.

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Pesticide Greenhouse Ruralism Production 75

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change. Positive signs are on the horizon.

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Food Seeding Crop Poultry 111

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. Photo CC-licensed by Bethany Week, U.S. Agencies like the U.S.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 143

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better. This is nonsense.

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Agwired

JANUARY 31, 2025

Key topics ranged from labor to rural broadband to trade. They include the farm bill , food systems , pesticide regulations , PFAS and state cooperative agreement funding. Farmer and rancher delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation s 106th Convention adopted policies to guide the organizations work in 2025. percent to $18.2

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Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture Farming 45

NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) commends the subcommittee for its work in support of farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. Of those who completed service, 80% remained in underserved rural communities. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) a. Food Safety Inspection Service a.

Agriculture 130

Agriculture Agriculture Food Ruralism 130

ATTRA

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Farmers all over the United States are changing the way they farm to boost soil health, use less water, and reduce fertilizer and pesticide use. Lighthouse Herb’n Farm is located at the base of Palomar Mountain in San Diego and is run by Damian Valdez and Jaime Williamson. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Farming Farming Crop Rural Development 105

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil.

Agriculture 134

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 134

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Available funding and supportive policy foster longer-lasting urban agriculture facilities, which can employ sustainable practices that reduce carbon emissions and decrease dependence on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides,” added Hawes.

Agriculture 40

Agriculture Agriculture Food Farming 40

Agwired

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

USDA is making the investments through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) , a program that has seen record demand in response to historic funding provided by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

Agriculture 45

Agriculture Agriculture Rural Development Ruralism 45

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Estrella “Esther” Penunia, the secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, called consolidation a “big problem” and talked about transforming the food system to “shift the power to the people.” Read more: Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in U.S.

Food 142

Food Pesticide Agroecology Agriculture 142

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Bundled in groups of five or six, his corn stalks shoot out of the sandy desert in bunches, resembling bushels rather than tightly spaced rows.

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Seeding Crop Farming Farming 78

ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

Related ATTRA Resources: Scaling Up Your Vegetable Farm for Regional Markets Evaluating a Farming Enterprise This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Crop Yield Yield Processing Harvesting 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. It all adds up to a smorgasbord for the hungry insects.

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Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Seeding 97

NASDA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Or it could lead to less use of inputs and, without the use of pesticides, farmers can lose up to 80% of their crops annually due to pests and disease. Without the savings from the MTB, it could lead to increased prices of final agricultural commodities, raising the cost of food and jeopardizing global competitiveness.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. As research and reporting began to call significant attention to the company’s negative effects on rural economies and the environment , Harold Lee Scott, Jr.,

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Supply Chain Food Acre Agriculture 145

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Specifically, we wish to raise concerns with Amendment #1097 as submitted by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. The proposed amendment attempts to attach the so-called Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (or “OFF Act”), to the spending bill.

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Farming Farming Rural Development Aquaculture 130

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Agroecology Yield Food Acre 97