Tag: US agriculture
These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...
In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a...
Leland Glenna, Penn State
As tractors became more sophisticated over the past two decades, the big manufacturers allowed farmers...
Cotton breeders are using genetic insights to make this global crop...
Serina Taluja, Texas A&M University
Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use...
Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices...
Raising cattle on native grasses in the eastern U.S. benefits farmers,...
Patrick Keyser, University of Tennessee
Early on a cool June morning, heavy dew lies on the grass of rolling...
Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy
Hamutahl Cohen, University of Florida
It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on flowering fields –...
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...
Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing...
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Oklahoma State University
For Indigenous people in the U.S., food is considered a sacred gift....
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
