Tag: organic farming
USDA invests $121 million to solve challenges facing specialty crop and...
The investment is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) $82.3 million in grant funding through the Agricultural Marketing Service.
USDA awards $9.7 million for 13 grant projects through Organic Market...
These projects will support the development of new and existing organic markets benefiting more than 119 million producers, buyers, and consumers.
The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to shape the future of US...
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation wants to rid the USDA of sustainability, climate change mitigation, and racial equity.
Community-based farms rise to the occasion as big food supply chains...
Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities.
Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards
For agrarian justice, family-scale organic farms deserve our support.
Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards
For agrarian justice, family-scale organic farms deserve our support.
USDA to reimburse farmers in order to expand organic farming
The USDA hopes by making these changes we will see an increase in participation in the National Organic Program.
Organic farming in the U.S. is now bigger than ever
The number of certified organic acres in the country rose by more than 10 percent over the past two years.
VIDEO: Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, but Can It Survive Entry...
While Cuba was forced to build a largely organic farming system out of necessity when the Soviet Union collapsed, what will happen now that the country will enter the U.S. agribusiness?
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Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...
As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage
More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.
Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...
New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.