by faster | May 12, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: World Resources Institute DATE: May 12, 2020 SNIP: Regenerative agriculture has become the darling of many policymakers, food companies and farmers. Advocates claim a triple win: climate change mitigation, increased profit for farmers and greater resilience to...
by faster | May 15, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Economic Collapse Blog [Take with a grain of salt, but the numbers are from the Department of Agriculture and are quite clearly problematic.] DATE: May 15, 2019 SNIP: 2019 is turning out to be a nightmare that never ends for the agriculture industry....
by faster | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: LA Times DATE: March 9, 2018 SNIP: The California we know is the breadbasket of the nation, producing more than two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts, including almonds, pistachios, oranges, apricots, nectarines and prunes, and more than a third of...
by faster | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: XinhuaNet (Chinese Media is notoriously unreliable, so read with a grain of salt). DATE: December 5, 2017 SNIP: The ecosystem services that land provides will have to increase exponentially to sustain the planet, as agricultural production needs to increase by...
by faster | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Forbes DATE: October 17, 2017 SNIP: A years-long study of Minnesota farm fields has found that emissions of nitrous oxide—a more dangerous greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide—will likely increase as our planet gets warmer. And our climate models aren’t...