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Source Contamination, Explained
What can’t be measured, can’t be managed. In modern agriculture, understanding how pollution and toxicity occur in the first place is key to measuring…
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Brenda Tjaden
The Past is the Place to Go
Life is busy, and not everyone cares to change their relationship with food. Still the data shows that big policies and new markets are working to…
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Brenda Tjaden
Reporting Requirements Ramp Up
Big news this week: California is advancing full supply chain emissions reporting by corporations. Due to the size of its economy, expect the rules to…
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A Next-Wave Investment Thesis
‘Market sentiment’ refers to the emotions that underly supply and demand changes. These can offer early signs of the trends that will eventually surface…
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Brenda Tjaden
Statistical Analysis & Food Security
In a groundbreaking new release, Statistics Canada this week published data on farms that sell food locally, and farms that use beneficial management…
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August 2023
Silos & Stories
Individuals interested in, or even working within industrial agriculture and food systems face a major challenge to know how the business operates from…
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Exploring Clean Label
Consumers are sifting through more health and ingredient claims on foods than ever before. Ethics and values labels are the next frontier.
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Funding Innovative Research
The science behind regenerative agriculture isn’t black and white. It doesn’t lend itself well to traditional academic-style research, and is…
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Crop Insurance & Moral Hazard
Increasingly, traditional farm safety net programs are being recognized as perpetuating the degeneration of natural capital by modern agriculture.
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The Market for Rye
The economics of cropping rye are unique, and improving thanks to new higher-yielding hybrids, tolerance to adverse soil conditions, and cover cropping…
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The Role of Glyphosate in Regenerative Agriculture
One way commercial farms use glyphosate is for terminating pasture fields, allowing crops to be grown on grazing lands without heavy tillage. This is…
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Selling Farmland for Future Good
Demand for farmland is skyrocketing - as it is for positive ecological outcomes. Values are starting to reconcile between short-term profits, and…
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