Health and environmental concerns are driving ‘phenomenal’ growth for these pulse crops, which offer soil as well as dietary benefits.
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Health and environmental concerns are driving ‘phenomenal’ growth for these pulse crops, which offer soil as well as dietary benefits.
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Some advocates are working to close a loophole that they say has created unintended consequences, including destruction of vulnerable ecosystems anathema to the label’s promise.
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A fascinating look at different sustainable agriculture vehicles that are emerging across the country.
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The most heated debate within this sector is whether farming can be truly regenerative if synthetic chemicals are used.
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With rural America badly hurting and 70% of farmers making less than a quarter of their income from farming, two leading presidential candidates have put the idea of supply management back on the table.
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The Climate Stewardship Act, which Booker plans to propose in September, aims to ‘dramatically scale up’ voluntary conservation incentives for farmers and ranchers.
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The Origin of Livestock rule is being applied in different ways by different certifiers, which producers and advocates say gives an unfair advantage to large dairies.
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Four industry veterans weigh in on how booming interest in organic food has changed the industry and what it means for farmers, policymakers and eaters.
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Impossible Foods, which uses glyphosate-sprayed, GMO-soy in its Impossible Burgers, sees “regenerative grazers as one of the worst environmental options” — even though studies have completely disproven this.
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A new ‘Ag of the Middle’ program helps small producers scale up so that they can compete in a food system designed to benefit larger farms.
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A complete breakdown of where 2020 candidates stand in regards to agricultural policy.
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Extreme weather is one of the biggest threats to food production around the world, and with the effects of climate change intensifying, disruptions are becoming more common.
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Environmental scientist and ecologist Francisco Sánchez-Bayo talks about his new research on the global insect decline and its under-reported connection to agriculture.
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The Real Organic Project has reported that some large organic hydroponic operations, especially in the berry industry, are being built on land that was recently sprayed with the cancer-causing glyphosate.
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Kentucky, now the fourth largest hemp producer in the nation, and its small farmers are building a cooperative and transitioning more land from generations of tobacco farming toward organic hemp.
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Perchlorate, a byproduct of bleach and packaging, is found in both organic and conventional foods — and is having a real negative impact on children’s health.
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The super-toxic herbicide dicamba, which the EPA just re-approved for another two years, is not only destroying millions of nearby crops but is causing a serious divide among neighbors across the U.S.
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Hurricane Maria has spurred some groups in Puerto Rico to embrace agroecology as a way to become more resilient to future climate-fueled disasters and to develop food sovereignty.
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A fascinating look at Iroquois Valley Farms, a socially conscious investment firm that is playing an important role in sustaining and funding organic farms throughout the U.S.
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77-year-old organic farmer Warren Weber, who sold his Star Route farms for $10 million to the University of San Francisco last year, gives his take on hydroponics and farming as a young person today.
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Despite the fact that corn and soybeans grown in the Midwest aren’t really feeding the people and are doing damage to the environment, signs of hope are appearing — in the form of cover crops and crop rotations.
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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences discusses new technologies that better assess the dangers of chemicals and chemical mixtures. But will it ever get put to use and change policy?
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Cool story about immigrants from Laos who are farming organic vegetables completely by hand!
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There is no debate that carbon farming can make a big difference, yet the question remains: how quickly can we get funding to the farmers in order to make this effort scale?
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