Hot Farm | Food and Environment Reporting Network
WEBHot Farm Trailer. By Eve Abrams, March 15, 2022. Over four episodes, Hot Farm from the Food & Environment Reporting Network tells the stories of farmers who are experimenting with ways to use less water and chemicals, protect their soil and use renewable energy—as well as those who still need to be convinced that climate change is a man-made ...
Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
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Smithfield settles suits over North Carolina farms, after losing …
WEBSmithfield Foods announced Thursday that it had reached a settlement with plaintiffs who had sued the company over the stench, flies, buzzards, and truck traffic coming from its industrial swine farms in North Carolina.
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On average, U.S. farmers are aging, but a quarter of them are …
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FTC probes grocery and meat supply chain and spiking prices
WEBNov 30, 2021 · The two largest U.S. supermarket chains, the leading grocery wholesaler and the No. 1 chicken processor are among nine companies ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to turn over detailed information for its study of “empty shelves and sky-high prices.” The commission said it would investigate the causes of supply chain disruptions and the hardships imposed on consumers.
What needs to change in America’s food system
WEBApr 29, 2020 · That type of concentration and risk is evident all over our current food system. Our food system also has been unjust by design. We are now able to see that the wellbeing of food workers is directly related to our wellbeing. Protecting them, eliminating inequalities, will be essential to have a healthier food system in the future.
A grassroots push to save vanishing birds and bees forces change …
WEBDec 3, 2020 · All across Europe, species are disappearing, and nowhere faster than on agricultural lands.Since 1990, the populations of common farmland birds and grassland butterflies, for example, have dropped by more than a third. Bees, which play a central role in pollinating crops, have suffered such dramatic population declines that the European Union banned neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides that ...
The battle to control America’s ‘most destructive’ species: feral pigs
WEBMar 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.
Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense
WEBFeb 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 cab flew upside down.