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02/28/2019 / By Tracey Watson

It’s time to look at soil health: Synthetic fertilizers, herbicides have taken an enormous toll, with long-term consequences

The thing about soil is that you cannot tell how healthy it is just by looking at it, and it can take years to determine the long-term effects of what you put in to it. For this reason, agrochemical companies have been able to push the use of harmful pesticides and other chemicals for decades […]

03/25/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Working with nature to reduce pesticide use: Farmers around the world are rediscovering the increased yields offered by biodiversity

The face of agriculture has changed dramatically over the past century. Instead of working with what nature has provided, encouraging biodiversity and companion planting to ward off pests, farmers have been encouraged to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, with disastrous results. Despite being promised greater crop protection and increased yields, the results have been low-yielding […]

11/27/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Researchers identify corporate agriculture as major contributor to wealth disparity, inequality

The more separated that everyday people become from the land in which their food grows (and from the process of “catching” and/or growing it), the greater the wealth gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” in society, an eye-opening new study has found. A team of researchers from Washington State University (WSU) and 13 other […]

09/05/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Food crops produce more output when they have healthy soil microbes, research confirms… yet glyphosate kills soil life

In an attempt to tease out the nature vs. nurture conundrum in the development of plants, a team of researchers from the University of Queensland analyzed scores of plant genera along the Cooloola dunes from the Great Sandy National Park on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. It was determined that the presence and level of soil microorganisms […]

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