Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
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The battle to control America’s ‘most destructive’ species: feral pigs
Mar 26, 2021 · A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Anthony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking from somewhere in the dark loblolly pines.
Hot Farm | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Episode 2: Enlisting the Unconvinced. The majority of American farmers don’t believe man-made climate change is real. In this episode, producer Dana Cronin introduces us to some statistically typical American farmers—older, white, male—who grow corn and soybeans.
What needs to change in America’s food system
Apr 29, 2020 · If the current coronavirus crisis tells us one thing, it’s that people need a steady, reliable, adequate income to survive and that our current food system depends on vast numbers of people who do not have that: farmworkers, grocery store workers, packing plant workers, meatpacking workers, restaurant workers, delivery workers.
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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense
Feb 15, 2024 · In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., parked it in the middle of the pond in an area called Constitution Gardens, and began a two-day standoff, during which he threatened to blow himself up and made references to another standoff at Ruby Ridge.The American flag above his …
The hog baron | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 19, 2021 · In the sheds, powerful exhaust fans constantly suck out the ammonia rising from the manure lagoons. Shut off the fans and hogs would die within hours, cut off from ventilation and left to overheat and ultimately suffocate, as whistleblowers say they did last year when the pandemic disrupted slaughterhouse operations and Iowa Select needed to quickly kill hundreds of thousands of animals.
A collective future for American agriculture?
Dec 14, 2021 · Many of today's collective agricultural operations, like the Black Farmers Collective in downtown Seattle, pictured here, are building on the tradition of cooperative ventures that Black farmers were forced to rely on when they were systemically shut out of mainstream agriculture over the course of the 20th century.
As the climate changes, new efforts arise to diversify what’s grown …
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In the Amazon, farming the forest to save the forest
Jun 28, 2021 · Despite the clear benefits of agroforestry, there are powerful forces favoring cattle over trees in the Amazon. Nova Califórnia, a town of 3,000, lies in the state of Rondônia, along the BR-364 highway, a major drug-trafficking corridor where vehicles weave around potholes—craters, really, as many are the size of a queen mattress—that pock the asphalt every few feet in some stretches.