Category Soil Health

Cows are not the problem. It’s the way cattle and livestock are managed and farmed that is creating a climate problem. “It’s not the cow, it’s the how,” is the popular refrain among regnerative farmers, ranchers, and soil health advocates leading the reform of our current food and agricultural system.

We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup

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Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere. Nate Halverson | MAY+JUNE 2026 ISSUE | Data reporting by Melissa Lewis In remote Northeast California, about 10 miles outside the lumber…

Trouble in Potato Paradise.

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Today, as the 2025 Potato harvest quickly winds down across North America, prices are alarmingly low for open-market uncommitted Potatoes.We’re longtime subscribers to ‘North American Potato Market News,’ a weekly four-page briefing from Idaho on all things Potato world. NAPMN…

Remembering Fred Kirschenmann, 1935–2025 

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Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future | Christine Grillo | September 15, 2025 We’ve lost a giant in the food systems world.   Fred Kirschenmann, 90, died on September 13, 2025, after a nine-month stay in hospice for advanced prostate…