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Interview: Supporting the Soil Carbon Sponge
Microbiologist, climate scientist and founder of Healthy Soils Australia Walter Jehne discusses climate and soil health. Interviewed by Tracy Frisch WALTER JEHNE is an internationally known Australian...
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Opinion: Making the Case for Organic Certification (Terrance Layhew)
By Terrance Layhew “Are you Certified Organic?” If you’ve sold anything at a farmers’ market, odds are someone has asked you this. Perhaps you are Certified Organic and can reply, “Yes we are. Do you...
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Interview: Eric Holt-Gimenez Part 2: Farmers Supporting Farmers
Interviewed by Tracey Frisch Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a two-part interview with Eric Holt-Giménez. Read Part 1 here. Since 2006 scholar and activist Eric Holt-Giménez has been executive...
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Episode 31: Rodale Institute’s Pigs, & Cathy Payne, Author of Saving the...
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh & Ben Trollinger / Sponsored by BCS America Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host, Ryan...
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Interview: Dr. William Albrecht
By Charles Walters First published in Acres U.S.A. magazine in 1971. Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters studied from Dr. Albrecht in the early 1970s and used his studies to help build the...
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Opinion: Pesticide Safety Unproven (André Leu)
By André Leu It might surprise you to learn that there is no scientific proof of safety for the majority of the pesticides, additives or chemicals that companies put in our food and our body care and...
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Tractor Time Episode 32: Bob Quinn, Liz Carlisle, Authors, Grain by Grain
Hosted by Ben Trollinger Hello and welcome to Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host, Ben Trollinger, and as always, I want to say thank you...
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Interview: Raw Milk for Real Health, Wealth with Joseph Heckman
Interview by Chris Walters This interview first appeared in the June 2018 issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine Soil Scientist, Author Joseph Heckman Examines the State of Raw Milk Dairying & Challenges...
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Interview: Dr. Caius Rommens Questions Biotechnology Safety
Interview by Tracy Frisch This interview first appeared in the January 2019 issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine For 26 years, Dr. Caius Rommens was an ambitious and prolific genetic engineer. He held...
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Tractor Time Episode 33: Doug Fine, Author, ‘Hemp Bound’
In this episode, we’re talking about the hemp revolution with Doug Fine. Fine is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in places like Washington Post, Wired and Outside Magazine. He’s...
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Opinion: A Green New Deal for Agriculture
Representatives of a coalition representing almost 10,000 U.S. farmers and ranchers held a press conference today in Washington, D.C. to announce the delivery of a letter to Congress urging support for...
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Tractor Time Episode 34: Paul Dorrance, from Top Gun to Top Grazier
If you’re a reader of Acres U.S.A. magazine, you might recognize his name. Paul Dorrance writes for us frequently, and he does it with a teacher’s spirit and a sense of humor. Acres is unique in that...
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Tractor Time Episode 35: Marty Travis, A Chef’s Farmer
If you’ve seen the documentary Sustainable, you know that Spence Farm is a special place. It’s owned and operated by Marty Travis, along with his wife, Kris and son, Will. Their farm supplies organic...
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Andrew Mefferd Touts Organic No-Till Farming
INTERVIEW BY TRACY FRISCH Andrew Mefferd is the author of The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers. He has worked in organic agriculture for the past 16...
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Tractor Time Episode 36: Kathleen Merrigan on the Future of Food
Kathleen Merrigan was instrumental in crafting the Organic Foods Production Act in 1990. She also served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture during the Obama Administration. During that time,...
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Tractor Time Episode 37: Dr. Zach Bush on Glyphosate, Farming and Human Health
Dr. Zach Bush is a triple-board certified physician, with a focus on internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice and palliative care. He currently runs a clinic in rural Virginia that focuses on...
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Tractor Time Episode 38: Mimi Casteel and Regenerative Wine
On this episode, we welcome Mimi Casteel, a wine maker in Oregon’s Eola-Amity Hills. At Hope Well Vineyard, Casteel is blazing her own trail and fast becoming one of the leading voices in the...
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Ways with Worm Farming: Understanding Vermiculture–From Simple Set-ups to...
By Rhonda Sherman Let’s take a look at the major types of vermi-systems that worm farmers are using to grow earthworms and produce vermicast. I’ll start with the simplest — a windrow — and then cover...
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Tractor Time Episode 39: Sherri Dugger and Judith McGeary
On this episode of Tractor Time, we’re presenting a double feature on farm activism. We caught up with Sherri Dugger and Judith McGeary at the Acres Eco-Ag Conference in Minneapolis back in December....
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How Small Farms Can Survive the Coronavirus Pandemic
Interview by Allie Hymas Kelsey Jorisson Olesen is the owner and operator of Green Willow Homestead in Franklin, Wisconsin. In addition to running her sustainable, low-waste farm featuring pastured...
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