Comments on: Opinion: Farmers Are Dropping Out Because They Can’t Access Land. Here’s How the Next Farm Bill Could Stop the Bleeding. https://modernfarmer.com/2024/03/opinion-land-access-farm-bill/ Farm. Food. Life. Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:23:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: cheryl Johnson https://modernfarmer.com/2024/03/opinion-land-access-farm-bill/#comment-72248 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:23:33 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152116#comment-72248 Amen to Melanie Harrison. We, consumers, demand lots of cheap food, driving these chemical companies and agribusinesses to create ever more destructive practices to satisfy our insatiable appetite.

]]> By: Melanie Harrison https://modernfarmer.com/2024/03/opinion-land-access-farm-bill/#comment-72205 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:06:02 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152116#comment-72205 Unless we adopt policies that address the long-standing tradition of devaluing our food, new entrant farmers will continue to be pushed towards lower value and higher risk lands. Meanwhile, existing farmers are often tasked with gleaning greater production from the land, despite the possible environmental implications of more intensive practices. We need to create a food system that adequately values nutritious food, respects the environment where it is produced, and provides living wages to the communities that produce it.

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