Social Media Ideas for Industrial Agriculture

If Modern Agriculture Were a Person, It Would Be a Sociopath: Can Regenerative Farming Save Us From Ourselves?

Naming the problem: A sociopathic agricultural system There is a great paradox in modern agriculture. The agro-industrial sector is feeding people while harming society and starvin...

From the farm to your door: How our global food system exploits workers

Colonialism and land dispossession created a system based on exploitation. Climate change is making it worse.

Agri future: What sends shivers down the spines of government and industry? Organic farming

Ireland needs to make the bold move to organic, so we can break free from volatile global markets, fossil-fuel fertilisers and an increasingly fragile agricultural model.

Why ‘Vertical Farming’ Is Not a Fix for Our Food System

Technological and material investments are being mobilized to preserve the expectation that a particular version of the present can be sustained into an increasingly unstable futur...

How Big Ag Seized Control Over Media, Research, Policy and the Marketplace

Industrial agriculture is increasingly adopting the same public relations, lobbying and information tactics long used by Big Oil, investigative journalist Amy Westervelt said on th...

U.S. Midwest Flooding Is a Growing Threat to Agriculture

URBANA, Illinois, US, August 27 (IPS) - Across the U.S. Midwest, from Illinois to Indiana to Ohio, severe storms and heavy rains...

The Dominance of Aquaculture over Capture Fishing

Aquaculture refers to farming the water: that is, growing fish or shrimp or other aquatic animals in a controlled space, rather than capturing them in open water. I’ve tended to th...

Three corn and soy farmers challenge the industry that raised them

When the rain started falling at around 3 p.m., Matt Bormann knew his work was finished for the afternoon.  He ducked into the equipment shed on his corn and soybean farm in rural...

What Faith Can Teach Agriculture

NEW YORK, September 30 (IPS) - Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture backward. The development world saw a man in need...

Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help

Labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency are common concerns of farmers that technology can address, according to CNH.  The post Farmers are facing more pressure; CN...

Culling the Herd? The US Accelerates the Destruction of Its Own Food System

At what point is it not just coincidental incompetence? 

The Future of Digital Agriculture: A Complete Guide to Smart Farming & Modern Agricultural…

Agriculture is changing rapidly with the power of digital technology. From smart sensors and drones to AI-powered farming and automated…Continue reading on Medium »

Farmers Embrace AI More Than Any Other Tech, McKinsey Says

Artificial intelligence use is surging on farms as growers look for some high-tech help in planning and managing operations after years of scaling back on spending, according to Mc...

The Coming Famine:

10 Reasons America’s Food Supply Is Disappearing—and May Never Return!John WalterEDITOR’S NOTE:A cattleman in Nebraska told me last month that he sold the last of his breeding stoc...

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed. The post We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned. appeared first on The Goo...

Ranked: America’s Biggest Farm Economies in 2025

California is America's largest agricultural economy, but the Midwest as a region produces nearly half of U.S. agricultural production value.

Indian Agri Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan lauds merits of dryland farming as farmers shift from millets

Irrigation has led to paddy-wheat rotation with oilseeds, pulses and millets disappearing

UVM and USDA researchers hope to improve local agriculture

Call for greater government support for organic sector

The government should take a proactive approach to the promotion of local and organic produce by using it in the school meals scheme. That’s according to Mark Durnin of Coole Farm...

Farmers in North Carolina, U.S. tinker with sustainability

The post Farmers in North Carolina, U.S. tinker with sustainability appeared first on Mercy For Animals.

China's tech strategy for preserving precious black soil farmland

CHANGCHUN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- When agricultural scientist Leng Jiantian arrived in the hilly area at the source of the Liaohe River in northeast China's Jilin Province about 10 y...