Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
WEBMar 20, 2022 · The EPI report portrays an agricultural industry that has polluted water and evaded accountability for the better part of half a century. Pollution sources include fertilizer runoff from cropland and manure runoff from factory farms, fouling waterways with pesticides, phosphorus, nitrogen and fecal bacteria. In Indiana, e.Coli bacteria was found in 73 percent of assessed waterways and harmful ...
Report: Fertilizer responsible for more than 20 percent of total ...
WEBNov 1, 2021 · As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) gets underway in Glasgow, a new report finds that synthetic nitrogen fertilizers are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought, outpacing even the commercial aviation industry. The report, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Greenpeace and GRAIN, urges a swift transition toward more sustainable food ...
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…
PLU Code Resource Page - Food and Environment Reporting …
WEBThe 4-digit PLU codes are assigned randomly within a series of numbers within the 3000 and 4000 series. Over 1,400 global PLU codes assigned to produce and related items. It costs $1,000 per [PLU code] application. PLU code restrictions. The product must be available to the entire global produce industry and available from multiple growers.
FERN’s Friday Feed: The story of a controversial fruit
WEBFERN and Switchyard. “The watermelon is a generous fruit: the flesh of one can feed a dozen people and can parent hundreds of melons with its seeds,” writes Jori Lewis. “Cultures throughout the ages have, and still do, interpret the watermelon as a symbol of good luck and fertility, a plant whose great fecundity might be shared with you.
Epic floods in Pacific Northwest revive long-running dispute over …
WEBJan 31, 2022 · In November, when a string of catastrophic storms hit the Pacific Northwest, the Nooksack River flooded, submerging farming communities in both the U.S. and Canada. Cows were swept away, and farmers raced to save them on boats and jet skis. By the time the waters subsided, thousands of farmers and farmworkers had lost their livelihoods—particularly in British Columbia—and a long-running ...
Stabenow: SNAP dispute makes 2024 farm bill the hardest yet
WEBProtracted disputes over SNAP funding are preventing progress on the new farm bill and endangering support for the legislation, said Senate Agriculture chairwoman Debbie Stabenow on Tuesday. The House Agriculture Committee was expected to vote next week on a Republican-written bill that would cut SNAP funding by $28 billion over objections by ...
What is the Farm Bill and why does it matter? - thefern.org
WEBJun 12, 2018 · But what, exactly, is the farm bill? How does it work? And why should anyone care? This video, produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, unpacks this complex law, the most important piece of legislation that shapes America’s food, farm and anti-hunger programs.
Q&A with Monica White: Black farmers’ role in the struggle for civil ...
WEBFarming isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when we think of the civil rights movement. But a new book tells the buried stories of black agrarian communities that used land and agriculture to build strategies for collective liberation throughout the 20th century. In Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Monica M. White, assistant professor of ...
USDA launches Forest Corps alongside Biden’s Climate Corps
WEBSep 20, 2023 · The White House announced the creation Wednesday of the American Climate Corps to train 20,000 young adults for work in clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience. At the same time, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the Forest Corps, operating through the U.S. Forest Service, would be the first major interagency partnership with the Climate Corps.… » Read More
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