Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. By creating tunnels, theyre also creating a thermal refuge, said Hila Shamon, the director of the Smithsonians Great Plains Science Program and principal investigator of the colony-mapping project. And they make holes.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Texas leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, with 248,416 , and has the highest rate of uninsured residents, at about 18%.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. 28, 2019. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The industry and its allies responded, adopting tactics used for years by the fossil fuel companies to fight the climate-change narrative: dispute the science, tar critics as radicals, and trumpet the essentialness of the product—meat feeds the world. The narrative around meat in America was shifting.

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