• Land

Despite Court Ruling, EPA Allows Farmers to Use Existing Stocks of Banned Herbicide

• Bayer
• dicamba
• EPA
• farm
• farming
• Monsanto

Yesterday, Bayer AG said it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce the chemical dicamba in its Luling, Louisiana planet. This comes after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the sale and use of the herbicide, stating that “the EPA substantially understated the risks related to the use of dicamba, a […]

• Food

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Food of Environmental Activism

• farming
• food
• food waste
• produce

by Zoey Shipley and Miro Korenha In America, 30-40% (by weight) of food goes to waste each day–which also wastes water and creates needless GHG emissions. One solution that’s been floated to combat food waste is selling more “ugly” produce to consumers. As Vox explained, venture capital-backed companies like Imperfect Produce, Full Harvest, Hungry Harvest, […]

• Water

Texas Drought Forcing Ranchers to Cull Herds

• climate change
• Drought
• farming
• Land use
• Texas

Texas ranchers are having to ask the tough question of whether they will have to cull their herds as much of the state continues to experience ongoing drought. As the grass dries out and ranchers face rising costs, it’s becoming less viable to maintain large herds of cattle and sheep in Texas Hill Country.

• Land

Farm State Voters Want Candidates to Talk Conservation

• 2020
• farm
• farmers
• farming
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• regenerative farming

Farm state voters in swing states like Minnesota see extreme weather, such as droughts and floods, as a significant threat to farming. According to a new poll conducted by Iowa-based RABA Research on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a majority of these voters say they would be more likely to back a 2020 […]

• Food

Why We Need Crop Diversity

• 30 by 30
• agricultre
• biodiversity
• crops
• farming
• food

Over the past 50 years, fewer crops are feeding the world’s people and diets around the world are becoming more alike. This puts us at risk of a “globalized diet” based on major crops such as soybeans, wheat, rice, and corn–which are grown on almost half the world’s agricultural lands.

• Water

Spring 2019 Floods Were BAD, Midwest Farmers Brace for More in 2020

• farming
• Flooding
• Mississippi River
• Missouri River

This past spring more than 1 million acres of land flooded across five states in the Midwest.

However, now that it’s nearly winter, Midwest farmers are still very much feeling the effects of the floods and are worried about another round of flooding in 2020.