FARMING

Caney Fork Farm agroforestry profitable

Agroforestry Is Both Climate Friendly and Profitable

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07.24.20

Amanda Provencher calls herself a perpetual optimist but can’t help but worry about water.

Maine Farmers Struggle with New, Harsher Climate Reality

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07.22.20

A man dances on a massive “Black Lives Matter” mural covering a city street in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Black Lives Matter in the Food System

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07.20.20

workers in a poultry processing plant dealing with fast poultry line speeds and insufficient social distancing and other protections.

Speeding Up Poultry Lines in a Pandemic Puts Workers’ Lives in Danger

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07.17.20

An overhead view of the Detroit urban farm study on week five. (Photo courtesy of Naim Edwards)

Could a Detroit Experiment Unleash the Power of Urban Soil?

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07.16.20

A still from the Burger King ad about reducing their cows' methane emissions

Op-ed: Burger King’s New ‘Reduced Methane’ Beef May Be All Hat, No Cattle

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07.16.20

Dr Rattan Lal holding a cup of grain. Photo courtesy of the World Food Prize.

The World Food Prize Winner Says Soil Should Have Rights

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07.15.20

Marlo and Anthony Paul at Eden Land Farm in Alabama's Black Belt

The Doctor-Botanist Couple Healing a Community in the Rural South

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07.14.20

organic farm researcher testing soil health

Food Companies Step Up Funding for Organic Farming Research

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07.13.20

Karen Washington in her urban farm. Photo courtesy of Bioneers.

Op-ed: How Urban Agriculture Can Fight Racism in the Food System

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07.10.20

A collage of photos of author marie mutsui mockett and the cover of her new book, american harvest

‘American Harvest’ Provides a Window on Farm Country

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07.08.20

A collage of a photo of the author Chase Purdy and the cover of his new book, Billion Dollar Burger

Inside the Race for Lab-Grown Meat

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07.08.20

A Somali Bantu farmer tending the field in Maine.

Could Putting Farmland in the Commons Support Land Justice and Sustainability?

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07.06.20

A Black farmer loading produce into a pickup truck

Op-ed: The Farm Bureau Says it Wants to Fight Racism. Here’s Where to Start.

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07.03.20

a farmer walks in a cornfield contemplating whether to spray glyphosate, dicamba, or one of three other herbicides in a new corn variety proposed by Bayer/Monsanto

Bayer Forges Ahead with New Crops Resistant to 5 Herbicides

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07.01.20

Jamil Burns of Raised Roots Farm in Oakland, shows off some of his produce destined for mutual aid for protesters seeking Black liberation.

Op-ed: We Can Build a Better Food System Through Mutual Aid

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06.26.20

Collage of Black leaders speaking about liberation, land justice, and food sovereignty for Black communities. Photos courtesy of A Growing Culture.

An Intergenerational Juneteenth Gathering Shows How the Black Food Sovereignty Discussion has Shifted

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06.24.20

lake erie during a toxic algal bloom as a result of agricultural runoff

The Lake Erie Bill of Rights is Dead. A Voluntary Effort Will Pay Farmers to Reduce Runoff Instead.

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06.22.20