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Agriculture agency set aside nearly $3bn to give to farmers who cut emissions, but about $1.9bn spent on practices not curbing crisis

Agriculture agency set aside nearly $3bn to give to farmers who cut emissions, but about $1.9bn spent on practices not doing that

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack helped unveil his agency’s Census of

“This unsustainable food system … must be reformed before it is too late,” one advocate said.

Small farms and Black farmers are going out of business, while corporate-controlled farms are booming, raking in subsidies

Small farms and Black farmers are going out of business, while corporate-controlled farms are booming, raking in subsidies

The new Census of Agriculture shows carbon-intensive farms and large, factory-scale animal operations are only getting bigger.

ST. LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi River. […]

Many Mountain West farmers grow alfalfa, an especially thirsty crop. Now, a researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno is working to help farmers use less water.

The EPA’s newest assessment of water quality and nutrient pollution in U.S. rivers and streams shows almost no progress on cutting the nitrogen pollution that comes primarily from farm chemical