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.
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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On average, U.S. farmers are aging, but a quarter of them are …
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At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on …
WEBFFA was founded in 1928 in Missouri as an agricultural training program for farm boys but has since evolved into a federally chartered program that develops high school curricula on agriculture, working closely with the Departments of Agriculture and Education. FFA members, ages 12 to 21, participate in local and national competitions, training sessions, mentoring, and conventions.
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.
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.
Back Forty: Marion Nestle’s life in science, food politics
WEBBy Samuel Fromartz. I’ve followed Marion Nestle’s work for two decades now. Her seminal book, Food Politics, was published in 2002 and laid the groundwork for a lot of food writing that followed — notably in journalism.But while I was familiar with her work, I didn’t know her personal story, which she writes about in her recently published memoir Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food ...
One Alaska bay is booming with salmon, for now
WEBOct 6, 2021 · During the unusually hot summer of 2019, tens of thousands of salmon went belly-up in Bristol Bay rivers when warm water essentially induced heart attacks in the fish. Some rivers were clocked at higher than 70 degrees—11 degrees warmer than what the state of Alaska stipulates is safe for fish migration.