Agriculture

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Air Pollution

Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial-scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Water Pollution

Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks to Farmers and Workers

Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Air Pollution

Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water

California County Initiatives Banning Genetically Engineered Organisms

Fact sheet prepared by Californians for GE-Free Agriculture outlines the risks and problems associated genetically engineered crops.

California County Initiatives Banning Genetically Engineered Organisms

Fact sheet prepared by Californians for GE Free Agriculture outlines the risks and problems associated genetically engineered crops.

U.S. Not Doing Enough to Fight Mad Cow

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been under fire for its handling of the discovery of mad cow disease on a Washington farm last year, and the agency's ensuing efforts to improve regulations to prevent the disease. One giant problem is that the testing program is voluntary, allowing producers to choose which cattle the USDA will see and test.

How to Make it Work: Required Policy Transformations for Agroecosystem

Dennis Keeney and Loni Kemp combined their expertise to explain the driving forces in agriculture today, including policy and technology, and to point the way to a new green payments approach for U.S. farm policy.

Another "Truly Historic" Trade Agreement

A recent framework agreed to at the World Trade Organization is full of well-meaning rhetoric, but does nothing to address the fundamental distortions in world agricultural commodity markets.