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  • Kenyan Farmer Wants Activists To Experience Agriculture Without Fossil Fuels

    08/13/2024 4:37:29 PM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 31 replies
    Jusper Machogu, a farmer in Kenya, Africa, wants people who think Africa shouldn’t develop with fossil fuels to see what a low-carbon lifestyle is really like. He and his family live it every day, and he told Cowboy State Daily that people, especially those of the West, don’t really grasp what it means not to have access to energy. In an effort to combat global emissions, wealthy nations are trying to discourage African countries from using fossil fuels, which Machogu said that will keep Africa in poverty. That’s why he’s offering an educational tour of his low-carbon lifestyle, which he...
  • Rep. Massie Warns About Fed Plan to Electronically Track All U.S. Cattle to Stymie Beef Production

    07/31/2024 10:30:36 AM PDT · by Twotone · 37 replies
    Daily News Cycle ^ | July 30, 2024 | Chelsea Betonie
    Hidden deep within the new omnibus bill is a secret provision to allow the federal government to electronically track all cattle in the United States. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) warned about the hidden provision on X, stating that lobbyists will receive $15 million in taxpayer funds to unleash the electronic tracking grid on the nation’s meat-producing cows and bison. As stated directly from the omnibus, the agreement “directs the Department to continue to provide the tags and related infrastructure needed to comply with the Federal Animal Disease Traceability rule (9 CFR 86), including no less than $15,000,000 for electronic identification...
  • Alphabet to shutter ag tech business

    07/16/2024 10:37:11 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 16 replies
    Power Progress ^ | July 5, 2024 | Chad Elmore
    Google will shutter Mineral, its agricultural technology operation...Mineral was launched as a separate business in January, 2023, after five years of development by X, Alphabet’s innovation lab. With a mission to help scale sustainable agriculture., the Mineral team’s work included robots designed to inspect every plant in a field and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI to help companies tackle the challenges of food waste, forecasting and the collection of high-quality data. Mineral CEO Elliott Grant wrote, “Our mission has always been to make a meaningful, positive difference to the global food system - which we knew...
  • Idaho is fining Farmers $300 PER ACRE for using water

    06/22/2024 2:57:19 PM PDT · by davikkm · 49 replies
    Idaho farmers are indeed facing significant challenges related to water access. The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued a curtailment order for eastern Idaho irrigators who were found to be noncompliant with a state-approved mitigation plan. This order was scheduled to go into effect recently. The curtailment order impacts about 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump water from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. This aquifer supplies water to the Twin Falls Canal Co, which has senior water rights. The projected shortfall of water to the Twin Falls Canal Co is approximately 74,100-acre-feet. To put this in perspective, an...
  • California Is Finally Awash in Water, but Its Farmers Can’t Get It. A push to save endangered fish has cut supplies to America’s produce epicenter, stirring resentment

    06/15/2024 10:50:24 AM PDT · by karpov · 49 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 15, 2024 | Jim Carlton
    California is awash in water after record-breaking rains vanquished years of crippling drought. That sounds like great news for farmers. But Ron McIlroy, whose shop here sells equipment for plowing fields, knows otherwise. “I’ll be lucky if I survive this year,” he said. Illustrating how broken California’s vast water-delivery system is, many farmers in Central Valley, America’s fruit and vegetable basket, will get just 40% of the federal water they are supposed to this year. Why? Endangered fish. The pumps that transport water from wet Northern California to the semiarid south have been drastically slowed to protect threatened migrating smelt,...
  • Farmers warn food aisles will soon be empty because of crushing conditions: 'We are not in a good position' (Climate change, of course)

    04/28/2024 8:40:21 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 59 replies
    yahoooo ^ | 4-28-24 | Nick Paschal
    Farmers warn food aisles will soon be empty because of crushing conditions: 'We are not in a good position' The United Kingdom is facing dire food shortages, forcing prices to skyrocket, and experts predict this is only the beginning. What's happening? According to a report by The Guardian, extreme weather is wreaking havoc on crops across the region. England experienced more rainfall during the past 18 months than it has over any 18-month period since record-keeping began in 1836.
  • As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk

    04/27/2024 12:48:26 PM PDT · by karpov · 37 replies
    Reuters ^ | April 27, 2024 | P.j. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper
    JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA - Dave Duttlinger's first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC, for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022, Duttlinger said, his phone rang with questions from frustrated neighbors: Why is dust from your farm inside my truck? Inside my house?...
  • Angry Farmers Are Reshaping Europe

    03/31/2024 10:28:07 PM PDT · by RandFan · 16 replies
    NYT / dnyuz ^ | March 31
    ... The challenges farmers cite include E.U. requirements to cut the use of pesticides and fertilizers, now partly dropped in light of the protests. Europe’s decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry in a show of solidarity added to competitive problems in a bloc where labor costs already varied widely. At the same time, the E.U. has in many cases reduced subsidies to farmers, especially if they do not shift to more environmentally friendly methods. German farmers have attacked Green party events. This month, they spread a manure slick on a highway near Berlin that caused...
  • Liberal state declares war on small farmers and homesteaders: War on food is spreading in U.S. through land-use restrictions, geoengineering and waves of propaganda

    03/24/2024 6:24:13 AM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Mar. 24, 2024 | Leo Hohmann
    War on food is spreading in U.S. through land-use restrictions, geoengineering and waves of propaganda Remember, it really is all about depopulation The World Economic Forum warned us several years ago that its ultimate goal was to destroy the middle class. How else would you explain their slogan: “You will own nothing and learn to like it“? This mantra is playing out in real time in the state of Oregon, and other states, in various forms which we will get into in this article. Small farmers are under attack in the Beaver State, which has begun shutting down family farms...
  • 'Major Win’ – Amish Farmer Persecuted By Feds Can Now Sell Raw Milk Out-of-State

    03/20/2024 12:53:54 PM PDT · by khelus · 13 replies
    Info Wars ^ | March 20th 2024 | by Kelen McBreen
    Amos Miller, an Amish farmer in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, will be allowed to sell his raw milk products out-of-state following a ruling this week by Lancaster County Judge Thomas Sponaugle. Attorney and podcast host Robert Barnes, who represents Miller in the case, labeled the decision a “major win” for the farmer. “Court agreed to modify injunction so that it only applies within the state of Pennsylvania removing the ban on sales to customers outside state,” he wrote, thanking Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for their support. ...........
  • Europe Farmer Protests Harken Global Political Realignment

    03/17/2024 7:22:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 15 Mar, 2024 | Ben Solis
    As farmer protests against radical “green” policies continue to sweep across Europe, liberal governments risk upsetting a delicate social balance that has led to relative peace and prosperity on the continent for decades. On February 19, hundreds of tractors rolled down the streets in Prague protesting the E.U. climate policies and high energy costs. Two days later, hundreds more tractors blocked roads in Spain. On March 6, farmers in Poland also took to the streets to oppose the E.U.’s climate agenda. Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece have all seen similar demonstrations – which are themselves an outgrowth of Dutch protests...
  • Over 140,000 Farms Lost in 5 Years

    03/11/2024 8:13:30 AM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    American Farm Bureau Federation ^ | MAR 07, 2024 | Daniel Munch
    Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. declined by 141,733 or 7%.. Acres operated by farm operations during the same timeframe declined by 20.1 million (2.2%), a loss equivalent to an area about the size of Maine. Only 1.88% of acres operated and 1% of farm operations were classified under a non-family corporate farm structure. ... USDA defines a farm as an operation that produced and sold, or normally would have sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during the census year. While the number of farm operations and acres operated declined, the value of agricultural...
  • Quebec farmers “drowning in red tape” protest.

    Farmers have gathered in Rimouski, Quebec to voice their concerns in the days leading up to the province’s next budget announcement. Several hundred farmers from Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie region travelled to Rimouski to participate in the demonstration by the Federation of the Union of Agricultural Producers (UPA) of Bas-Saint-Laurent. Dozens of tractors and trailers joined together in a convoy.
  • HAPPENING NOW: Farmers break through police roadblocks in Brussels

    02/26/2024 2:04:45 AM PST · by RandFan · 41 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | Feb 25 | disclosetv
    NOW - Farmers break through police roadblocks in Brussels.
  • Bidenomics Failing Farmers As Expected Incomes Crash The Most Since 2006 (Food Prices UP 21% Under Biden’s Reign Of Error)

    02/08/2024 4:33:13 PM PST · by Kaiser8408a · 12 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 02/08/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders
    This reminds me of “The Human Farm” episode of Parks and Recreation. A new report from the US Department of Agriculture forecasts that US farmers are poised for another year of financial misery, facing the most significant decline in incomes in almost two decades as crop prices slide and US dominance in ag exports wanes. USDA forecasts net farm income, a broad measure of profits, to plunge $39.8 billion, or 25.5%, to $116.1 billion in 2024. This follows a forecasted decrease of $29.7 billion, or 16%, from 2022 to $155.9 billion in 2023. If the estimate holds, farmers face the...
  • Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions – a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries and regions

    02/08/2024 11:32:45 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 48 replies
    The Conversation ^ | 9/13/21 | Xiaoming Xu, Abul Jain
    Producing enough food for a growing world population is an urgent global challenge. And it’s complicated by the fact that climate change is warming the Earth and making farming harder in many places. Food production is a big contributor to climate change, so it’s critically important to be able to measure greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector accurately. In a new study, we show that the food system generates about 35% of total global man-made greenhouse gas emissions
  • U.N. 'secretly working with banks' to destroy American food industry

    02/07/2024 10:16:20 AM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 17 replies
    WND ^ | 02/05/2024 | Bob Unruh
    WND reported just days ago on a video that showed empty stores in France, where a climate agenda threatened the production processes for farmers, and they more or less staged a strike.And just recently, in Germany, farmers blocked highways in protest over costly and unnecessary agriculture policies.Now, however, there's a new campaign against farmers, in which the United Nations works with banks to debank the food producers, closing their accounts and not allowing them to operate their businesses.The report is from NewsAddicts, which explained officials from 12 U.S. states have sounded an alarm after finding out the "unelected globalist United...
  • WEF Member Calls for Farming to Be ‘Serious Crime,’ Equal to ‘Genocide’

    01/19/2024 9:21:08 PM PST · by Red Badger · 96 replies
    SLAY News ^ | January 19, 2024 - 12:33 pm | Frank Bergman
    A speaker at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland has called on globalist elites to push for farming to be labeled a “serious crime.” Speaking from the WEF’s summit at the luxury Swiss ski resort, “Stop Ecocide Now” founder Jojo Mehta argued that fishing and framing should be considered equal to “genocide.” Mehta insisted that fishing and farming for food should be a “serious crime” while arguing that it is immoral to make money from these industries. “We have this cultural, very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage...
  • WEF Davos 2024 Takes a Peculiar Turn: Farming and Fishing Labeled ‘Ecocide,’ Calls for Recognition as a ‘Serious Crime’ Leave Many Bewildered

    01/17/2024 9:36:22 AM PST · by davikkm · 54 replies
    In the bizarre world of the World Economic Forum (WEF), a speaker has boldly declared farming and fishing as “ecocide,” pushing for its recognition as a “serious crime.” Welcome to WEF Davos 2024, where the seemingly rational takes a backseat. The claim that the path to peace involves more weapons, more war, and inevitably more death is nothing short of mind-boggling. These declarations sound like a script from a dystopian novel rather than a serious discourse on global issues.
  • [CLIP] How California’s Policies Forced Me to Give Up My Farm and Move to Texas: Mollie Engelhart

    01/11/2024 6:54:29 AM PST · by grundle · 7 replies
    [CLIP] How California’s Policies Forced Me to Give Up My Farm and Move to Texas: Mollie Engelhart