Soybean Wishes It Could Just Be A Soybean And Have That Be Enough

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Latino farmworkers face high rates of long COVID but barriers delay diagnosis SEATTLE – The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried.

“These patients are working and sometimes the only working member in the family, so they feel like they have to keep on working."

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This is probably the main reason why we will never truly get clean water... despite what the various state agencies, especially Departments of Agriculture, tell you.

Not regulating manure that is spread on millions of acres means that we will likely never get nitrate in water under control.

American cheese was invented by a Canadian.

James L. Kraft was born in Fort Erie, Ontario, in 1874 & raised on a dairy farm there.

He patented pasteurized "American cheese" in 1916, just in time to supply rations to American soldiers in WWI.

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Purple hyacinth, creeping phlox, and violets

All the purple perennials in my garden #flowerreport

the three dudes who show up when you type beard into the emoji keyboard

ladies and gentlemen the bee gees

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

We're starting with a fertilizer fact in honor of SINNERS, which is getting shut out of the Oscars so far & that's a tragedy

You know CAFOs? Those "factory farms" that keep animals indoors & make tons of poop?

Once upon a time, they were the sustainable farm solution that was gonna save the South.

Overheard in Old City: “Bill Gates should be drawn and quartered in the town square. Not because of anything to do with the Epstein files, but because of what he did to Microsoft Office.”

Panic! At The Fertilizer Desk, US Edition

Americans: this is your regular reminder that maybe 0.01% of people who write for the news actually understand how fertilizer works.

But their editors all found out that scary headlines about "GLOBAL SHORTAGE??" get clicks.

On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of the Broken U.S. Health Care System - Inside Climate News American farmers are drowning in health insurance costs, while their German counterparts never worry about medical bills. The difference may help determine which country's small farms are better prepa...

While American farmers are overwhelmed by health insurance costs, German farmers don’t have to worry about their medical bills. And this difference could help determine which country’s small farms are better prepared for climate change.

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

The other place I’ve seen this (minus the TED talk vernacular) is in farming/ag industry publications.

Yes, get in mother fuckers. If you're feeling weirdly down, we're entering the covid anniversary period.

Trump overstepped executive power by imposing tariffs, supreme court rules Ruling is blow to Trump’s bold assertions of authority and topples key pillar of aggressive economic agenda * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump overstepped his authority by imposing most of his steep tariffs on global imports, the US supreme court ruled on Friday, toppling a key pillar of the president’s aggressive economic agenda. In a 6-3 ruling, the court decided that a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies did not provide the legal justification for most of the Trump administration’s tariffs on countries across the world. Continue reading...

Trump overstepped executive power by imposing tariffs, supreme court rules

Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.

food systems are the leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss on land, freshwater use, and overfishing, and the number two cause of climate change after energy use

Amy Ash @lolennui.bsky.social (me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns Imao August 7, 2023 at 3:38 AM

thank you @goingmedieval.bsky.social for making me aware of this tweet

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3. History, Part 2: Colonization, Industrialization, and American Cheese Podcast Episode · Milkfed · 02/10/2026 · 25m

Episode 3 traces how colonialism and capitalism set the stage for food production (among other human activities) to become a driver of an existential climate crisis. Plus: the first climate scientist, singing to cows, & the state of American artisan cheese today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...

2. History, Part 1: Cheese, Climate, and Capitalism Podcast Episode · Milkfed · 01/27/2026 · 23m

Remember how I launched a podcast last month? I promptly forgot to promote the second episode, but here it is—a history of the first 8500-ish years of cheese and climate change on earth, featuring insights from THEE preeminent cheese historian Dr. Paul Kindstedt: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Britney Spears 🌹🚀 @britneyspears Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist. 12:31 PM · Feb 10, 2011

Happy 15th anniversary to this tweet:

Not really, it's always roulette.

You *can* get the risk level low enough that some people feel like roulette is worth it.

But fundamentally, cows' udders are just. directly underneath their poop chute. It is what it is. Even France, w rigorous raw milk standards, still has a lot of outbreaks.

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Tariff Turmoil: Why America's Trade Policy Rocked the Global Cheese Industry | culture: the word on cheese For the specialty cheese industry, “Liberation Day” was anything but liberating. On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order implementing a broad set of new tariffs, or taxes on...

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That chaos continued into my reporting: as I was filing in early November for a piece that would go live in print in January, the news that shiny trinkets from the Swiss might drop their tariffs down to a more reasonable 15% meant that I had to do a bunch of re-reporting and rewriting 🫠

Aside from the jump in costs, especially on 🇨🇭cheeses, the haphazard and confusing way the tariffs were implemented had importers scrambling—no one along the supply chain knew how much more they’d have to pay or when, all during summer prep for the holiday season.