January/February
Quinn Snacks cultivates farmer-food brand relationships to advance regenerative agriculture
Snack maker connects with Nebraska farmers to source grains for products
Read MorePlacing profits where they belong: Hybrid85’s non-GMO corn seed bolsters challenged farmers
The model isn’t working for most farmers: paying $200-$250 a bag for genetically modified seed corn, and receiving so little return that they’re struggling fiercely just to survive. In 2019, government support was expected to account for nearly one-third of net farm income (Successful Farmer, 11/8/19)—while profits of multinationals soared. When regenerative agriculture specialist Nate […]
Read MoreGrain buyers offer contracts to grow non-GMO and organic grains in 2021
The following companies are offering contracts to farmers to grow non-GMO and organic grains in 2021.
Read MoreMayan beekeeper who fought Monsanto GMO plantings in Mexico wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Leydy Pech, a Mayan beekeeper who led a coalition that stopped Monsanto from planting genetically modified crops in seven states in southern Mexico, was recently awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Pech, a 55-year-old Indigenous woman from the state of Campeche in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, works with a rare, stingless, native bee species (Melipona beecheii) that […]
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