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Illinois Weighs Early Warning System For Pesticide Spraying Near Parks, Schools
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1343+ words) Our nonprofit newsroom investigates the biggest threats to our planet, holds decision-makers accountable, and pushes back on climate disinformation so facts stay front and center. A bill in the Illinois General Assembly would require certified pesticide users'anyone licensed by the…...
California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops
1+ week, 2+ day ago (752+ words) Our nonprofit newsroom investigates the biggest threats to our planet, holds decision-makers accountable, and pushes back on climate disinformation so facts stay front and center. California Assemblymember Nick Schultz is leading an effort to phase out the use of pesticides…...
Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1743+ words) Tap, tap, tap. One for every child. Watts, a contract farmer for the poultry giant Perdue Farms, swung open a second door to the barn, where a deafening choir of 30, 000 chicks stirred and chirped. He opened a chute for the…...
The Farming Industry Has Embraced "Precision Agriculture" and AI, but Critics Question Its Environmental Benefits
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (910+ words) Picture an American farm in your mind." You might envision a red barn. Some cows. A field of corn. You might even see a tractor in this idealized landscape. Maybe a classic John Deere, its kelly green cab atop giant…...
Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (546+ words) Agriculture is widely known to be the biggest driver of forest destruction globally, especially in sprawling, high-profile ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest." But new research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems'the world's grasslands, savannas and wetlands'are being devoured for…...
Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1114+ words) In the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, food and beverage businesses are partnering with organic farms in a small but growing effort to promote regenerative agriculture practices across the unique region, known for its uneven landscape of steep hillsides and deeply…...
Are Incentives for Fuel Made from Livestock Manure Leaving Small Farmers Behind?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1293+ words) Biogas made from dairy and pig manure has long been an energy source non grata for environmental groups across the country." The fuel is touted by agribusiness, utilities and renewable natural gas developers as a way to reduce emissions from…...
Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It's Going.
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1722+ words) This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker's farm in northeast Iowa, while a few hundred cattle pace in open feedlots....
A Network Blooms to Connect Fiber Farmers With Fabric Artisans
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1350+ words) When yarn-maker Anne Choi moved to New Jersey in 2014, she noticed the lack of connection between natural fiber farmers, who raise sheep, alpacas and goats or grow cotton and flax, and fiber artists, who knit, spin and dye the wool…...
Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1282+ words) Republicans are quietly moving to kill proposed regulations for PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge that is spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers across the country, destroyed their livelihoods and contaminated food and water supplies. The Biden administration…...