US #agriculture on the brink of collapse: former leaders blame #Trump tariffs, labor shortages (due to Trump’s immigration crackdown), and research cuts for pushing farms into the worst crisis in decades - #Ag #Farming #farms #tariffs #immigration https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/agricultura-nos-eua-a-beira-do-abismo-ex-dirigentes-acusam-tarifas-falta-de-mao-de-obra-e-cortes-em-pesquisa-de-empurrar-fazendas-para-a-pior-crise-em-decadas-flpc96/

Former NPPC President Among Ag Leaders Saying Trump Policies Hurting Industry - #Ag #Agriculture #farming #farms #TrumpRegime https://meatingplace.com/former-nppc-president-among-ag-leaders-saying-trump-policies-hurting-industry/

Former US agriculture officials, top Republican senator warn of farm country trouble - #Agriculture #farming #farms https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/former-us-agriculture-officials-top-republican-senator-warn-farm-country-trouble-2026-02-04/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis/116009001341941025

Food production and infrastructure failures cost consumers when they buy #groceries. Corporate control of our #farms means investors come first, not the customers. We're there now...this corporate control of our food needs to be dialed back. Avi and the #NDP can make this an issue if we give them a chance.

A field of wheat becomes the world’s largest living photograph

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.positive.news/environment/a-field-of-wheat-becomes-the-worlds-largest-living-photograph/

[Number of #animals alive on #farms at any moment]
🦐 #Shrimp are harvested and slaughtered annually at the estimated number 440 billion.
At sea, globally, 27 trillion 👁️ 27.000.000.000.000 👁️ shrimp are caught in the wild every year, compared to 1.5 trillion fish. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/09/yes-shrimp-matter

From Space To Field - Putting satellite insights into growers’ hands [OpenET]
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https://irrigationtoday.org/features/from-space-to-field/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://etdata.org/ <-- shared OpenET home page
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/openet-satellite-based-water-data-resource/ <-- shared NASA technical article
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https://youtu.be/Rbobf6aurLs?si=Q0kN9eiZH0gT8O5m <-- shared OpenET overview video
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#OpenET #openscience #opendata #publicgood #publicservice #nonprofit #fedscience #fedservice #evapotranspiration #ET #Landsat #OLI #OperationalLandImager #groundwater #water #hydrology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #agriculture #USA #farming #waterresources #watermanagement #planning #watersecurity #satellite #remotesensing #earthobservation #model #modeling #irrigation #metrology #raster #cost #economics #efficiency #foodproduction #mobileapp #FARMS #view #download #usecase #reporting
#OpenET #USGS #USDA @NASA #USGS_EROS

"About 26 billion #chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is #industrialFarming."

Ian Frazier reviews #UnderTheHenfluence, #Yardbirds, and #Hatched

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/bang-the-drumstick-slowly-under-the-henfluence-yard-birds/
https://archive.ph/v4Fjl

#farms #factoryFarms #factoryFarming #CAFOs #crueltyToAnimals #BigAg #animalWelfare #poultryIndustry #poultry #backyardChickens #books @bookstodon

Partnership With Farms Reinvents Kentucky School Lunches, Ending Days of Pan Pizza and Fruit Cups

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/partnership-with-farms-reinvents-kentucky-school-lunches-ending-days-of-pan-pizza-and-fruit-cups/

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o... "#America’s #factory #farms generate nearly a trillion pounds of #manure every year, and way too much of it ends up in #rivers, #lakes and #estuaries Next time you take a bite of #beef #pork #chicken etc. - remember this. #water #land #air #climatechange

Opinion | This Is Why Our Rive...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html

"#America’s #factory #farms generate nearly a trillion pounds of #manure every year, and way too much of it ends up in #rivers, #lakes and #estuaries

Next time you take a bite of #beef #pork #chicken etc. - remember this.

#water #land #air #environment #pollution #methane #gas #climatechange

Fewer farms, fewer farm girls, as we used to say as kids in northwestern Wisconsin.

"But the decline in dairy herds doesn’t mean there are fewer cows being milked. In fact, the number of cows being milked in America’s Dairyland is about the same as it was two decades ago, and the state’s farmers are producing slightly more milk every year.

"Consolidation continues to be the biggest factor shaping the number of farms in the state, according to Steven Deller, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."

#dairy #farms #cows #Wisconsin

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 1/ They don't want voluntary #migration. They want the version from before the Civil War. They already have one version of it - e.g. illegal #migrants exploited in #farms and meat factories.

Trump Doesn’t Want Legal Immig...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-legal-immigration/685649/

They don't want voluntary #migration. They want the version from before the Civil War. They already have one version of it - e.g. illegal #migrants exploited in #farms and meat factories. Once they have gotten all #Americans panicking, the so-called "#centrist" compromise offered will be the system used in places such as #SaudiArabia #Singapore etc. where migrants have very very limited rights.

I speculate about this in "A New Faith" in fiction form.

#Viral claims that #cows and #beef are #climate solutions ignore the impacts of #cattle #farms

Verdict: Inaccurate

Claim: Cows are carbon-negative; to tackle #climatechange, we need to raise more cows and eat more beef.

https://science.feedback.org/review/impacts-of-cattle-farms/

#Hawaii #privateequity
“#Kauai #Coffee #farms about 3,000 acres on the island’s West Side, managing roughly 4 million #coffee trees and producing between 1 and 2 million pounds of green #coffee annually … the largest #coffee grower in the United States”
“But #Kauai #Coffee has never owned the land it #farms”

#Kauai #Coffee Co. warns of 141 job losses with land lease set to end in March https://kauainownews.com/2026/01/08/kauaʻi-coffee-co-warns-of-141-job-losses-with-land-lease-set-to-expire-in-march/