Multiple generations of industrial farming have taken a toll on one of our most precious resources: the “dirt” beneath our feet. Healthy soil is a rich, complex system teeming with microbial and ...
1. Family managed farming, organic and conventional, is in crisis in many areas because policy makers and the general public do not know what values would be lost if industrial agriculture swept the ...
We recently compiled a list of the 10 Worst Farmland and Agriculture Stocks to Buy According to Short Sellers. In this ...
Farmers are motivated to “get big or get out,” as President Nixon’s secretary of agriculture, Earl Butz, said in 1973, urging farmers to buy up their neighbors’ lands, and replace laborers ...
We're fighting at every level to address ongoing harm to wildlife and communities from industrial animal agriculture. At the national level, we're seeking to improve federal safeguards to watchdog the ...
Agroecology advocates have called on African governments to redirect funding away from industrial agriculture and towards ...
Every kind of agriculture is now happening all at once: tiny family farms, gleaming industrial meat factories and dairies, sustainably minded high-tech farms, even organic urban ones. A couple ...
In addition, much can be inferred about the people involved in the transactions. 1850 Industrial, Agricultural and Social Census The U.S. Census has been taken every ten years since 1790. The census ...