September 2020 DID YOU KNOW? Alaska seafood is sustainable by law. When Alaska became a state in 1959, Alaskans wrote sustainability into their Constitution – calling for all fisheries to…
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The role of technology and innovation in helping farmers overcome the challenges of Covid-19 and meet future demand By David Green, The U.S. Sustainability Alliance Consumers are used to buying the food…
American cotton growers can now join the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new standard for verifying the sustainability progress of U.S. cotton. As consumers continue to demand eco-friendly products, enrolling…
Lloyd Arthur is a fifth-generation cotton farmer living in Ralls, Texas with his wife Angela. They have four children, and together the family has created an award-winning farming operation. Lloyd…
Privately-owned global food company Cargill is supporting farmer-led efforts to adopt regenerative agriculture practices across 10 million acres (four million hectares) of North American farmland in the next ten years….
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA), which represents farmer and rancher-led organizations, has published a new SDG roadmap report which has been endorsed by the World Business Council for…
Innovation and technology have enabled the United States to increase its production of food and fiber by 400% in the past 90 years while using 10% less land, says U.S….
Sustainability and productivity can only “come together when you embrace technology” and understand how modern American agricultural innovation has brought advances for the world. That’s according to Jon Entine, founder…
In a protein industry first, meat processor Smithfield Foods has committed to becoming carbon negative in all company-owned operations in the United States by 2030. The pledge requires Smithfield to…
Climate neutrality is within reach for the California dairy sector, according to a new white paper by experts from the University of California, Davis. Authored by UC Davis professors Dr. Frank Mitloehner…
Consumer food waste is a major environmental concern, driven not just by an individual’s food choices but by a system that encourages consumers to make decisions that lead to wasted…
The Mid-South Graduated Water Stewardship Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), led by USA Rice, has been renewed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a $7 million award from the…
July 2020 DID YOU KNOW? Producing half a kilo (1 pound) of pork uses 75.9% less land and 25.1% less water than it did in 1960? It also requires 7%…
Hank Campbell, founder of Science 2.0, and author of the best-selling Science Left Behind, believes that a real world problem is the alarming amount of effort that environmental activists have…
The response to student design competition ‘Real Leather. Stay Different’ has been so high that the event will go annual from September, says organizer the Leather & Hide Council of…
Doug Goyings has been a full-time farmer his entire life, managing Goyings Farms in Paulding, Ohio, with the help of his wife Diane and son Jeremy. He is constantly striving…
Speaking in the run up to this year’s IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) event, U.S. Dairy Council’s Krysta Harden, interim CEO and Executive VP of Global Environmental Strategy, unveiled the…
A new video from trade association Food Export Northeast showcases the freshness, diversity and sustainability of seafood from the northeast corner of the United States. The region’s fisheries are sustainably...
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Climate change and extreme weather are a pressing concern for farmers, and remain a key focus despite the Covid-19 pandemic, according to IPSOS Mori research. In a survey of European…
A new publication from The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association highlights the economic impacts of Covid-19 on agri-food (food and agricultural markets)….
