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#ranchers

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)

“Colorado farmers and ranchers lost access to a critical lifeline when the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week froze funding for a program that supports the mental health of a population whose suicide rate is at least two times higher than the average population, and whose profession is marked by uncertainties in the weather, market and cost of operating.”

#Politics #USPolitics #PublicHealth #MentalHealth #Agriculture #Farmers #Ranchers #SuicidePrevention

coloradosun.com/2025/04/25/usd

The Colorado Sun · Colorado farmers just lost their most important mental health lifelineBy Tracy Ross
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Nonilex

#USDA freezes #farmer #funding

The US Dept of #Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the #Trump admin that programs helping farmers would not be affected in the govt overhaul.

The impact has been immediate & wide-ranging, from cash assistance for #ranchers to fix #cattle watering systems to help for #corn growers wanting to plant cover crops that curb wind #erosion.

#economy #food #TrumpCoup #law
reuters.com/world/us/usda-free

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Alexander J. Stein

(2/3) Raising #cattle is only lucrative due to #subsidies, wile the global production of just #soybeans yields more than 2x as much high-quality #protein as the entire global #meat supply. Farmers & #ranchers don’t need to be victims of a changing world: theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattleBy Guardian staff reporter
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CelloMom On Cars

The case for paying #ranchers to raise trees instead of #cattle

"A global annual investment of just 1% of the world’s GDP – around $1tn – to pay farmers who choose to transition from cattle husbandry to #restoration and management of native #forests and #grasslands would significantly raise the income of cattle farmers and stimulate rural communities, while rapidly reducing global warming and reversing the global collapse of biodiversity. And that would be a bargain."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattleBy Guardian staff reporter
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CelloMom On Cars

The case for paying #ranchers to raise trees instead of #cattle

"Raising cattle is far from lucrative, even in wealthy economies where demand for beef is high. The agriculture department confirmed this month that US beef farmers and ranchers are in dire economic straits. For all their hard, dangerous work, 70% lose money and, excluding government support, their average net income per acre was less than 50 cents."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattleBy Guardian staff reporter
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies"

cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colo

Real salinity of the Earth types.

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The group allegedly damaged rain gauges located in Springfield, Ordway, La Junta, Walsh, and Ellicott, Colorado, and others in Syracuse, Coolidge, and Elkhart, Kansas. Wires were cut, funnels to rain collectors were filled with silicone, holes drilled or punched in collectors, parts of collectors were disassembled, and objects such as cake pans or pie tins were placed over the gauges during rainstorms. The incidents occurred between July 2016 and June 2017.
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The scheme was designed to benefit Jagers through his crop insurance, the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Insurance Plan, which is one of several agriculture subsidies administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Program.
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Jager filed claims on the falsified lower precipitation measurements, thereby increasing the benefits received from his crop insurance policy. In return for their rain gauge activities, Esch and the two unidentified co-conspirators received payouts, as outlined in the plea agreements.
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CBS Colorado · Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidiesBy Logan Smith
#crop#subsidies#ranchers
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

A report on regenerative grazing scammers trying to get $$$$ for "carbon offsets" in Kenya

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The project, which started in January 2013, is based on the notion that replacing what it calls the traditional ‘unplanned’ grazing with ‘planned rotational grazing’ will allow vegetation in the area to (re)grow more prolifically. This in turn, the project claims, would result in greater storage of carbon in the conservancies’ soils - averaging around three-quarters of a tonne of additional carbon per hectare per year. Thus the project would allegedly generate around 1.5 millions of tonnes of extra carbon ‘storage’ per year, producing around 41 million net tonnes of carbon credits for sale over a 30-year project period. The gross value of these could be around US$300 million – US$500 million, but potentially much more.
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The project has been described by the European Commission as the model on which is intends to base a forthcoming large funding programme for conservation projects in Africa called ‘NaturAfrica’.
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Ironically, the rancher practices also ruin the traditional pastoralist activity because the pastoralists there require vast, vast, tracts of land to move herds over and to find fresh pasture opportunities.

You can expect more of this scamming at for sure.

survivalinternational.org/arti

#regenerative#grazing#Kenya
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped between January and July this year — by 42.5% compared with the same period in 2022, according to data from Inpe — but this follows a number of years of record destruction. The main culprit, say researchers who spoke to Nature, is agribusiness. Ranchers and farmers have cleared trees to expand Brazil’s agricultural area by about 50% over the past four decades, mostly in the Amazon, according to a report from MapBiomas, a consortium of academic, business and non-governmental organizations that monitor land use in the country.
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Dry spells in the Amazon have consequences in addition to low water levels. Ranchers and others clearing the rainforest don’t burn trees when it’s rainy or when the air is humid, says Erika Berenguer, an ecosystems researcher at the University of Oxford, UK. But because El Niño has made the rainforest’s air dry, those who are clearing trees have been burning them, Berenguer says. This has added to the harsh conditions and has sparked some uncontrolled fires — something she experienced at first hand when she visited the town of Belterra in the northern state Pará in September.
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nature.com/articles/d41586-023

www.nature.comThe Amazon’s record-setting drought: how bad will it be?Scientists tell Nature why the rainforest has dried out, and what to expect in the coming months.
#Amazon#climate#change
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"How Swaths of Invasive Grass Made Maui’s Fires So Devastating

Scientists have long warned that Hawaii’s cover of nonnative shrubs is kindling waiting to burn"

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"Without farmers tending that land, nonnative brushes such as guinea grass, molasses grass and buffel grass moved in. These species are native to Africa and were introduced to Hawaii in the late 18th century by European who wanted a steady supply of drought-resistant forage. Today, almost a quarter of Hawaii’s land cover consists of these invasive shrubs. They run amok on the tens of thousands of acres of plantations on which sugar cane and pineapple plants once flourished. Hardy, voracious and opportunistic, they invade roadside shoulders and encroach on urban housing areas."

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

Smithsonian Magazine · How Swaths of Invasive Grass Made Maui's Fires So DevastatingBy Shi En Kim
#maui#fire
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

And something more contemporary:

Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya pastoralismjournal.springerope

Understanding mobile pastoralism key to prevent conflict fao.org/pastoralist-knowledge-

Farmer-Herder Conflicts on the Rise in Africa hrw.org/news/2018/08/06/farmer

How Nigeria's cattle war is fuelling religious tension (2018)
bbc.com/news/world-africa-4403

Nigeria gunmen kill dozens in rural village in Benue State
bbc.com/news/world-africa-6521

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up
insideclimatenews.org/news/221

Pastoralist violence in Kenya spglobal.com/marketintelligenc

The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return pulitzercenter.org/stories/ama - yep, the Amazonian people (the Amazon is not empty) are being attacked by (pastoralists).

And, no, the Western pastoralists aren't different, they just have more political power.

Ammon’s Army -
Inside the Far-Right “People’s Rights” Network
irehr.org/reports/peoples-righ

This Land - Journalist Christopher Ketcham reported talked about his book, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West, on past and current conflicts over public lands in the western United States. c-span.org/video/?462742-1/thi

SpringerOpenRaiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya - PastoralismConflicts related to livestock raiding are not new phenomena in many pastoral societies in the Horn of Africa. Traditionally, various pastoral communities use raiding as a cultural practice for restocking of herds, especially after periods of drought or outbreaks of diseases. However, in recent years, livestock raiding has become more frequent, violent and destructive.This paper elucidates, first, the motives behind the current livestock raiding, and second, it analyses how conflict affects livelihoods of pastoral communities. Between 2008 and 2011, focus group discussions and interviews were carried out with 376 members of the Turkana and Pokot communities and key informants.The study findings suggest that hunger and drought impacting on availability and access of resources are critical raiding motives among the Turkana, while increasing wealth and payment of dowry are the most important motives for the Pokot community. Violent conflict poses a significant threat to pastoral livelihoods which are already under pressure from recurrent drought, diseases and political marginalisation. The direct impact of violent raiding is felt in terms of loss of human life and property, reduction in livestock numbers, limited access to water and pasture resources and forced migration. Indirectly, violent conflicts create a strong and omnipresent perception of insecurity which results in ineffective resource utilisation, reduced mobility, food insecurity and closure of markets and schools. These factors combined undermine adaptation strategies and pastoralism altogether. Hence, a framework of conflict mitigation is needed which addresses the specific raiding motives of each group.
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