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.
Tyson plant closures left contract chicken farmers with debt and ...
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What is the Farm Bill and why does it matter?
WEBBy Bridget Huber, June 12, 2018. Every five years or so, Congress takes up a massive piece of legislation known as the farm bill, which covers everything from supporting farmers to ensuring that those short of food don’t go hungry. The cost of the bill is nearly $100 billion a year. Right now, Congress is in the middle of the farm-bill cycle ...
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 …
WEBMar 20, 2022 · Last week, water experts marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a dire warning: After evaluating over 700,000 miles of rivers and streams across the country, they concluded that half of those waters are too polluted to fish or swim in—and agriculture is often to blame.
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Has the American truffle finally broken through?
WEBBy Rowan Jacobsen, July 19, 2021 Photography by Andrew Kornylak. On a frosty February morning in North Carolina’s Piedmont region, the enterprising trio who has finally broken America’s strange truffle curse walks beneath orderly rows of loblolly pine, trying very hard not to step on the precious nuggets beneath their feet.
On average, U.S. farmers are aging, but a quarter of them are …
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Epic floods in Pacific Northwest revive long-running dispute over …
WEBJan 31, 2022 · A river in ‘grave danger’ The November flood turned Washington’s Lummi Indian Reservation into a swampy island. “It was the worst flooding that I’ve seen,” Lisa Wilson, a Lummi Nation Council member, told me in a call from her car between meetings.
What should desert farmers grow? - Food and Environment …
WEBA century later, the lucrative crop is still a winner: in 2019, farmers planted 85,500 acres of cotton in Pinal County, bringing in $92 million in revenue. Pinal ranks 10th among the nation’s cotton-growing counties. At his farm’s office, Deen proudly displayed a fibrous cotton tuft atop a hunk of silver ore.
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