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Last week the USDA unveiled it’s new Agriculture Innovation Agenda, a “sustainability” plan with the goal of achieving a 50% reduction in the environmental footprint of US agriculture by 2050, as Politico reports. Sonny Perdue announced the new policy at an annual agency gathering in Virginia on February 20, 2020, or 02/20/2020 – an appropriate […]
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In October 2018, the highly regarded medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine published the results of a large French epidemiological study assessing the impact of organic food consumption on cancer. Their remarkable and encouraging core finding is that individuals who consume the most organic food have a 25% lower chance of facing a newly diagnosed cancer, […]
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We have posted a summary of an important report from a European think tank — “An agroecological Europe in 2050: multifunctional agriculture for healthy eating. Findings from the Ten Years For Agroecology (TYFA) “. This report that lays out a concrete plan — and path — toward a safer, sustainable agricultural system that promotes human […]
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It is a badly kept secret in Washington, D.C. that the USDA , and the U.S. government as a whole, does more to slow the growth in organic farming than support it. There are several ways that the USDA, other government agencies, and the Congress bring about this unfortunate outcome. #1 Denial of Consumer Health […]
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National Geographic ran a June 15, 2017 story by Sarah Gibbens entitled “Renewable Energy Record Set in the U.S.” It’s opening paragraph reports the good news – “The U.S. set a new renewable energy milestone in March, in data released Wednesday. For the first time, wind and solar accounted for 10 percent of all electricity […]
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Backed up by a glossy report by two ag economists from the University of Minnesota, the Farm Journal Foundation has issued a remarkably unimaginative call for a doubling of public funding for agricultural research…because U.S. ag research funding is falling behind China, Brazil, India…and because we have to feed 9 billion people. Over the years there […]
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See also: Environmental, Human Health, and Other Impacts of Pesticides General 2018 story on KQED about the impacts of industrial ag on air quality, “Crops May Contribute More to California’s Smog Than Previously Thought” 2015 paper in PeerJ “Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland” “Sustainability of three apple production systems,” 2001 article in Nature […]
Dave Flynn and Cory Carman own and manage one of the wonderful, productive and beautiful grass-based cattle operations in the Pacific Northwest. The fourth-generation, 2,500+ acre Carman Ranch in Wallowa, Oregon is just over the ridge from where I live, near Troy, Oregon. We have bought our beef for years from the Carman Ranch, and more […]
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a key order to the EPA on April 29, 2021 on next steps in the regulation of chlorpyrifos. This is the first of several expected court actions impacting regulation of high-risk pesticides. Dr. Benbrook has been involved with chlorpyrifos risk assessment, use, human health effects, and regulation since […]
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