Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 20, 2024 · In the last third of the nineteenth century, the Delta was a place people flocked to, a land of opportunity for Blacks and whites alike. Cotton farming had begun before the Civil War, using enslaved labor, but only near the riverbanks. At the end of the war, 90 percent of the Delta in Mississippi remained forested, swampy wilderness—an unclaimed frontier.
Judge overturns USDA rule on genetically engineered plants
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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem
Mar 27, 2024 · In the years since the Hamiltons converted their fields, the use of native warm-season grasses has gained momentum in the ranching industry. The University of Tennessee — firmly in the fescue belt — opened a Center for Native Grasslands Management in 2006 aimed at getting ranchers to incorporate native warm-season grasses (known as NWSGs) into pastureland.
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The battle to control America’s ‘most destructive’ species: feral pigs
Mar 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.
What does Donald Trump’s deportation plan mean for the food …
Sep 4, 2024 · Writing in The New York Times op-ed section, newly named FERN senior editor Ted Genoways argues that a Trump presidency, built on threats of mass deportation of migrants, would be a disaster for the American food system:. On August 22, just hours before Kamala Harris was due to take the stage in Chicago to accept her party’s nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention, her ...
A collective future for American agriculture? | Food and …
Dec 14, 2021 · Many of today's collective agricultural operations, like the Black Farmers Collective in downtown Seattle, pictured here, are building on the tradition of cooperative ventures that Black farmers were forced to rely on when they were systemically shut out of mainstream agriculture over the course of the 20th century.
FERN’s Friday Feed: The weeds are winning
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FERN’s Friday Feed: The shadow of hunger
Historic abuse in the onion fields of Georgia The Bitter Southerner “Last fall, as Vidalia onion farmers tucked their seedlings into winter beds, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia unsealed a 54-count indictment in USA v.Patricio et al detailing felony charges for two dozen conspirators accused of mail fraud, international forced labor trafficking ...