Tom Philpott Predicts the End of Farming as We Know It
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Tom Philpott is dogged in his pursuit of the truth about America’s farms. In addition to spending several years working on a…
Tom Philpott is dogged in his pursuit of the truth about America’s farms. In addition to spending several years working on a…
Our food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravelPicture an ideal dinner plate. If you…
Climate change comes for farmers – from Mozambique to…
Timothy A. WiseGrim as the recent U.N.'s climate report is, it doesn't go far enough to confront the dangerous government-hijacki…
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Move over…
Photo: Bob Nichols, USDA/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr)You’re not a farmer, but you’re invested in crop insurance. The chances that you are…
Extended crop rotations, which often include small grains like oats, pictured here, can provide financial benefits to farmers…
To the untrained eye, Jeremy Gustafson’s 1,600-acre farm looks like all the others spread out across Iowa. Gazing at his…
Breaking with the industrial model of growing corn and soybeans, a growing number of Iowa farmers are putting oats, rye, and…
Breaking with the industrial model of growing corn and soybeans, a growing number of Iowa farmers are putting oats, rye, and…
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Conservationist Garrett Duyck and…
What makes agroecology so great (as I have said before!) is that it combines the best of two time-tested disciplines, ecology…
The various incarnations of the sustainable food movement need a science with which to approach a system as complex as food and…
Conservation-minded farmers are embracing what is called no-till agriculture, which dramatically improves water retention and…
“Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems.”
Pro organic researchers use pretzel logic to draw misleading conclusions about the ability of organic systems to close the…
Two years ago in the New York Times Magazine, the great food writer Mark Bittman made the case for fake meat. "Isn’t it…
Iowa State University, April 2005. I stood at the front of the classroom, a veteran of 25 years of teaching at one of the nation…
USDA photo by Keith WestonEven the best conservation measures could be thwarted by severe weather leading to floods like this…
Editor’s note: After we ran What I learned from six months of GMO research: None of it matters, Nathanael Johnson’s essay…
When German chemist Justus von Liebig demonstrated in 1847 that the major nutrients that plants removed from the soil could be…
By Lester R.
Monoculture rules in the American midwest. There are many reasons for this, both political and economic; its history has been…
Tristan…
As investigators and rescuers move through a destroyed fertilizer factory in West, Texas, it makes me think about just what…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack made several recent pronouncements prompted by the growing recognition that climate change will…
PLoS ONE ha publicado 23.468 artículos científicos en el año 2012, que han sido revisados por más de 60.000 científicos. El artíc…
PLoS ONE ha publicado 23.468 artículos científicos en el año 2012, que han sido revisados por más de 60.000 científicos. El artíc…
As we start off the New Year, we wanted to take a quick moment and highlight a few noteworthy papers published in 2012. Of the…
There has been a running, and often misguided, debate about the value of organic farming over the past few months. Spraying…
Brandon Keim, reporting for Wired: The Marsden Farm experiment, which is described in a study published Oct. 10 in Public…
Recently, we have seen a flurry of stories about studies done on Iowa State University’s Marsden Farm demonstrating the power…
“Integrated pest management” is a mouthful. But the farming method, involving growing multiple crops together and playing their…
“Integrated pest management” is a mouthful. But the farming method, involving growing multiple crops together and playing their…
A recent blog post by Tom Philpott pointed to growing evidence that neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments of corn are…
Two-year corn-and-soy rotation field (left) and four-year rotation field covered in alfalfa (right). Both were photographed in…
Big Ag has worked hard for decades to instill a belief—in farmers, policymakers, and the public—that its chemical-intensive…