USDA deregulates GM wheat, says it is safe to grow in U.S.
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Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app ...
Oct 24, 2024 · Before 2013, many Silicon Valley investors were wary of agritech, the name given to the application of advanced technologies and computing to agriculture.Farming is more complex and fragmented than other sectors of the economy, in part due to the uncertainties of weather, environmental pressures, global markets, and local policies.
The rotten secret plaguing America’s grocery stores
Jun 6, 2024 · Suggitt argues that measurement and data reporting has increased since Molidor’s reports. Some of that comes from consumer demand that brands be more transparent; some of that comes from regulatory pressure, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to increase what companies have to disclose when it comes to climate change impacts.
Judge overturns USDA rule on genetically engineered plants
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Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 20, 2024 · In the last third of the nineteenth century, the Delta was a place people flocked to, a land of opportunity for Blacks and whites alike. Cotton farming had begun before the Civil War, using enslaved labor, but only near the riverbanks. At the end of the war, 90 percent of the Delta in Mississippi remained forested, swampy wilderness—an unclaimed frontier.
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 …
Project 2025 plan for USDA: Repeal crop subsidies, move SNAP to …
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In California, a native people fight to recover their stolen waters
May 16, 2024 · For the Nüümü, the water war started in the 1800s, with the arrival of white people in their homeland. At the time, the valley was lush and green, its river banks lined with willows and cottonwoods. The occasional fur trapper and mountain man quickly gave way to a steady stream of sheep and cattle ranchers, and by the 1860s, a community of …
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.