Food Tank

MAY 6, 2025

Regenerative agriculture is big news these days, with companies from ADM to Walmart to Bayer promoting it as the key to improving soil health, biodiversity, and the climate crisis. An invaluable goal, but one that not all practices touted as regenerative are currently meeting. With billions of dollarsand the future of our food systemat stake, its important to ensure that these investments are truly helping to make our farms more regenerative and resilient.

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Food Politics

MAY 7, 2025

Seed oils, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, are the unhealthiest ingredient in the food supply, not least because they are cheap and subsidized. He also says they are one of the worst things you can eat. Really? I dont think so, although seed oils, like everything else high in calories, are best consumed in moderation. OK. Heres my understanding of whats up with seed oils.

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Civil Eats

MAY 8, 2025

I sat down to write this piece after a five-inch April snowstorm gave our newly planted wheat fields their first drink of the season. Wheat is one of five crops we raise on our farm just outside Belgrade, Montana, that work in rotation to help build our soils, minimize weeds, and produce high yieldsall without using expensive and toxic synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides.

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NASDA

MAY 29, 2025

Letter Dear Speaker Johnson, Leader Thune, Leader Jeffries, and Leader Schumer, We write to express our great concern with recent misinterpretations of long-standing policy regarding the regulation and labeling of pesticide products, as some states have begun to regulate pesticides in a manner contradicting decades of scientific guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Western FarmPress

MAY 5, 2025

Report finds seed oil ban would raise feed prices for livestock farmers, while consumers would pay high meat prices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 9, 2025

In his Guardian column this week, George Monbiot raised a number of criticisms of our recently published Grazing Livestock report. Here, we respond briefly to some of them. Dartmoor Monbiot states: Sheep, cattle and ponies selectively browse out tree seedlings, preventing the return of temperate rainforest, which is extremely difficult to burn. In dry weather, the moor grass, bracken and heather covering the deforested landscape are tinder.

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Food Tank

MAY 27, 2025

This piece is part of the weekly series Growing Forward: Insights for Building Better Food and Agriculture Systems, presented by the Global Food Institute at the George Washington University and the nonprofit organization Food Tank. Each installment highlights forward-thinking strategies to address todays food and agriculture related challenges with innovative solutions.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 23, 2025

I am conscious I may not have referred to the Third International Agrobiodiversity Congress too much since it was originally announced. Sorry about that. Anyway, it’s all over now, and it seems to have been very well attended and reasonably productive. There was supposed to be a “manifesto” coming out but I see no sign of it online yet.

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NASDA

MAY 22, 2025

Q&A Logan Moss is an associate director of public policy at NASDA, where he leads work on natural resource and conservation issues, including water policy, conservation and natural disaster response. In this interview, Logan explains how the data collected by field enumerators helps shape key environmental policiesand why that work matters now more than ever.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 2, 2025

Learn how to set up effective on-farm research to test new products and practices. Proper design ensures meaningful data for informed decision-making.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 13, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. 347.563.6408 Release: Budget Bill Steamrolls Farm Bill Future, Slashing Billions Washington, DC, May 13, 2025 Yesterday evening, the House Agriculture Committee released its budget reconciliation bill text. Although a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score was not yet available, summary materials provided by the Committee claim the bill slashes over $290 billion from the f

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Food Tank

MAY 28, 2025

Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg recently delivered the commencement address at the 44th Commencement Ceremony for the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Below is a copy of her remarks. Thank you, Dr. Economos. Its truly an honor to be here with all of you today. Ill admitI was terrified when I got the invitation to give this speech.

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Food Politics

MAY 26, 2025

This is an example of what the late and much missed Sheldon Krimsky called the funding effect, the strong tendency for industry-funded studies to produce results favorable to the commercial interests of the sponsor. The study: Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 18, 2025

A significantly enhanced role for plant genetic resource centres in linking in situ and ex situ conservation to aid user germplasm access. On-farm conservation must result in use of the conserved diversity, and genebanks can help with that. Just another way of saying the two approaches are complementary? Looking back to look ahead: the temporal dimension of conservation seed bank collections.

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Ohio State University

MAY 2, 2025

By Tracy Turner COLUMBUS, Ohio Gabriel E. Lade has been appointed to a five-year term as the holder of the C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), pending final approval by The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. This prestigious appointment recognizes Lades outstanding research and leadership in agricultural, environmental, and rural-urban economics.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 12, 2025

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suspended live cattle, horse and bison imports from Mexico due to the northward spread of New World Screwworm, affecting U.S. farmers.

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AgriLife Today

MAY 20, 2025

Experts from Texas A&M AgriLife provide education, answers about invasive insect The post Texas A&M AgriLife announces New World screwworm fact sheet appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Food Tank

MAY 7, 2025

A recent documentary, Roots of Resilience: East Knoxvilles Black Food Renaissance from filmmaker Ronald Levy, tells the story of the organization Rooted East. The Black-led food justice nonprofit is fighting deeply rooted food apartheid in East Knoxville, Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Access Research Atlas , all eight of East Knoxvilles census tracts are designated low income, low food access areas.

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Food Politics

MAY 12, 2025

I often get asked why I think industry funding biases research in ways that almost always ensure that results favor the sponsors interests. A reader, Professor Michael Tlusty, sent me this excellent example (my emphasis in bold ). BEEF CHECKOFF 2026 HUMAN NUTRITION REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN On behalf of The Beef Checkoff, the National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) is conducting a request for proposals (RFP) in Human Nutrition, to further understand beefs nutritional qualities and defin

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Agri-tech

MAY 7, 2025

Following the news that Parliament has passed the secondary legislation to implement the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act for plants in England, we welcome the benefits this offers, and the increased opportunities for plant and microbial science to improve the health of plants, people and the planet. Our scientists have used precision breeding techniques to develop tomatoes fortified.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 8, 2025

It might be because we happen to be doing something on the coffee diversity conservation strategy at work, but I have been running into a lot of joe-related material online lately. There’s the bit on Sprudge (apparently, “the worlds most popular coffee publication”) about how coffee diversity needs a Svalbard. Seconded. And, from the same source, also comes a spotlight on Madagascar’s amazing coffee diversity.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 8, 2025

Wheat, oats, barley and rye have given up acres to soybeans. But more often, the economic and soil health benefits of small grains are being recognized.

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AgriLife Today

MAY 9, 2025

Program celebrates first graduates in the Rio Grande Valley, advancing regional impact and opportunity The post Texas A&M agricultural economics marks milestone in South Texas appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Food Tank

MAY 26, 2025

Chef, author, and content creatorBradLeoneis shining a spotlight on food system heroes through his YouTube series Local Legends. The show educates audiences about sustainable food and community-driven resilience. In Local Legends ,Leonetravels across the United States and beyond to highlight individuals championing ethical sourcing, regenerative agriculture, and community-driven solutions.

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Food Politics

MAY 14, 2025

I get asked all the time about whats happening with the dietary guidelines. I have no inside information, but am exhausted at the thought that we have to go through all this again. By law, dietary guidelines have to be re-done every five years, even though they always say the same things: eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; eat less sugar, salt, and saturated fat; balance calories.

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NASDA

MAY 21, 2025

Letter Dear Senators Boozman and Klobuchar: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) is extremely encouraged that the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry has scheduled a confirmation hearing of Mr. Dudley Hoskins to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs and Dr. Scott Hutchins to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 7, 2025

Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes. At low latitudes maybe about a third of the production of 30 major crops shifts outside their climatic niche under 2-3C global warming, and potential food crop diversity declines on half of global cropland, but potential diversity increases elsewhere. So that’s all good then? Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 23, 2025

More than Dirt: Veteran farmers those who went from operating a tank to driving a planter generate $41 billion in agricultural sales annually across America.

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AgriLife Today

MAY 29, 2025

Diagnostic experts warn of bacterial infections following prolonged exposure to floodwater The post Safeguarding Texas livestock from skin infections after severe weather appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Agri-tech

MAY 2, 2025

While April traditionally marks Autism Awareness Month, at the John Innes Centre (JIC), we believe in moving beyond mere awareness toward genuine affirmation and celebration of Autistic colleagues every day of the year. As part of our Understanding, Valuing and Celebrating Neurodiversity Project, we’ve been taking tangible steps to create a workplace where Autistic researchers and staff can.

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Food Politics

MAY 5, 2025

A Canadian reader, Michel Lucas, sent this one ( merci ). The report: Benot Lamarche, Arne Astrup, Robert H Eckel, Emma Feeney, Ian Givens, Ronald M Krauss, Philippe Legrand, Renata Micha, Marie-Caroline Michalski, Sabita Soedamah-Muthu, Qi Sun, Frans J Kok. Regular-fat and low-fat dairy foods and cardiovascular diseases: perspectives for future dietary recommendations.

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NASDA

MAY 9, 2025

Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. After more than two decades of dedicated service at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and a career spanning over five decades in agriculture, Bob Ehart will retire May 30, leaving behind a legacy that helped shape food safety regulations and state-federal partnerships across the U.S. “Bob Ehart has been the drive behind some of NASDAs most impactful work in food safety and public policy, NASDA CEO Ted McKinney said.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 14, 2025

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of spending a day at St. Martin's Academy in Fort Scott, Kansas. I became acquainted with the school in the fall of 2020 (remember that?) when a busload of students stopped by for a farm tour as part of a trip to the east coast. What I remember were totally engaged teens, firm handshakes, and direct eye contact.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 23, 2025

Slideshow: Special digital issue highlights womens increasing role in agriculture industry.

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Food Tank

MAY 14, 2025

The National Farm to School Network (NFSN) is looking for support for the School Food Forest Coalition to scale food forests across the United States. Food forests can provide school communities with self-sustaining, food-producing systems. School gardening can improve health and well-being outcomes for students, according to research in Nutrients. But annual school gardens may fall by the wayside when educators are pulled in a million different directions, Tomas Delgado, Program Manager at NFSN

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Agri-tech

MAY 23, 2025

May marks the beginning of Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. It aims to destigmatise Tourette Syndrome (or Tourettes) and increase public understanding of this often-misunderstood condition. As part of our ongoing Understanding, Valuing and Celebrating Neurodiversity Project, we’re focussing on how research institutions can better support and harness the unique strengths of colleagues with.

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Food Politics

MAY 30, 2025

Sylvia R. Karasu. In Essence: A Tapestry of Selected Writings. 2025. I wrote a blurb for this gorgeous book. In Essence collects Dr. Sylvia Karasus elegant essays from Psychology Today and other publications. These cover a broad variety of topicsvegetarianism, twins, opium, gullibilityeach full of unexpected information, and all stunningly illustrated with artworks chosen to precisely illuminate the subject under analysis.

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