Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont., The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

Acre 244

Acre Tractor Yield Harvest 244

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The USDA announced the latest data on the US agricultural system in a press release. million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9 Farms with sales of $50,000 or less: 1.4

Agriculture 288

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2024

There are about 85,000 acres of potatoes on Prince Edward Island and every year an increasing number of those acres are planted to winter wheat after potatoes are harvested in September and October.

Crop Rotation 312

Crop Rotation Acre Harvest Harvester 312

Real Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

Here in North America, the growing season is short and the harvest season shorter. As farms have become larger, the need to combine more acres at a faster pace has become a priority. Read More Here in North America, the growing season is short and the harvest season shorter. Introduced at Ag in. Introduced at Ag in. Read More

Acre 273

Acre Harvest Harvester Harvesting 273

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities.

Harvest 209

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 209

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For Manitobans, it looks more like December than November 1 out there, but at least harvest is done. For Ontario, however, so many thousands of acres of corn are now very wet and covered in snow, and. For Manitobans, it looks more like December than November 1 out there, but at least harvest is done. Read More

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Acre Harvest Harvester Harvesting 283

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass. Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season,… Read More

Harvest 196

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 196

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. The culture is tied into our agricultural system, and thats what makes it so resilient. Kotutwa Johnson with an ear of his Hopi white corn.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

Department of Agriculture reports. Farmland is most at-risk of being transitioned into a non-agricultural use when it is sold, according to American Farmland Trust. Cameron Terry of Garden Variety Harvests is one farmer who faced difficulty in finding farmland. According to Agrarian Trust, more than 40 percent of U.S.

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Farmland Farming Farming Food 110

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

With three to four bushel per acre. With three to four bushel per acre. Read More

Yield 282

Yield Acre Crop Harvest 282

Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Every now and then I run across a report about something I know absolutely nothing about but wish I did, and this is one of them—an analysis from the University of California on Sample Costs to Produce and Harvest Romaine Hearts Lettuce. Bill Marler, the lawyer featured in the film, does not eat bagged Romaine. Neither do I.

Food 305

Food Acre Harvest Seeding 305

Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

The FDA has issued its boringly titled Southwest Agricultural Region Environmental Microbiology Study (2019 – 2024). Special attention was given to the geography of the study region and the types and locations of agricultural and other adjacent and nearby land use activities relative to produce production areas.

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The term data-driven decisions is becoming increasingly common in agriculture, but how committed are farmers to using data in their everyday practices? Are they truly allowing data to influence their operations, or is it just a catchphrase thrown around by people who aren't in the agricultural industry?

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 97

Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. Roa believes that SHI is “on track” but she notes that they need more partners to get them there.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 115

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The GRAS stamp is a long-overdue validation, he said, of kavas importance to Hawaiian agriculture and identity. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields. Harvesting awa requires leaving the corm and lateral roots intact.

Food 130

Food Plantation Acre Production 130

Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

planted nearly 50 million acres of wheat for the 2023 harvest, the largest acreage since 2016. That year’s winter wheat crop, which accounted for an average of 73% of total wheat acres, was the first crop planted after the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent wheat prices soaring. million acres.

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Acre Crop Grain Harvest 70

Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. Regenerative agriculture in practice looks different depending on the unique situation of the farm, and so does the funding for it. One of four branches of the MAD!

Agriculture 129

Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 129

Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

agriculture, with enhanced implementation of conservation practices and emerging technologies, has an opportunity to more than offset its carbon footprint while increasing farmer profitability and farm resilience, according to a new report initiated by U.S. Cargill RegenConnect has surpassed one million enrolled acres for the 2025 U.S.

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Manufacturing Science Greenhouse Supply Chain 81

The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And despite the proximity of wetlands to many communities in this country, few people truly understand either the value wetlands hold for our way of life or the threat they face from our industrialized system of agriculture. Wetlands help mitigate climate change by trapping and storing carbon. And wetlands also help protect us from flooding.

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Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture Industrial Agriculture 92

ATTRA

MARCH 1, 2025

.” The report’s 13 authors identified the resource needs of key species that live among the state’s approximately 500,000 acres of rice fields, including snakes, birds, and fish.

Straw 52

Straw Science Acre Harvest 52

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A typical farmer can pull out a file of papers and start ticking off the various environmental elements that pay him: a woodpecker nest, $1,000; a goose nest by the creek, $1,000; a two-acre hillside abandoned to wildflowers, $5,000; a tree with squirrel nests in it, $2,000. In Europe, they can't build anything without a government permit.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farmland 78

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B This could be accomplished by approximately doubling the amount of land currently harvested for these crops. of US farmland. of US farmland.

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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In early 2024, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Conducted every five years, the Census of Agriculture is sent to every known agricultural producer in the country to ask important questions about their farms and how they manage them.

Agriculture 94

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 94

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. His harvest looks unique, too.

Seeding 80

Seeding Crop Farming Farming 80

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Agricultural Economics Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

harvested an estimated 340,000 acres of sweet corn – or just 0.5% of the area harvested for feed grain corn. Figure 1 shows the USDA’s NASS acreage estimates since 2016, which capture a notable decline of 138,000 acres, or 29%. Sweet Corn Acres, 2016-2022. In Alaska, 14 farms raised a total of three acres.

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Acre Processing Distribution Harvest 98

ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

state to complete soybean harvest in 2023. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5. Read more on soybean harvest in Louisiana here. The post Louisiana Completes Soybean Harvest, Battles Exceptional Drought appeared first on ProAg.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Forestry 59

Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

Instead, it’s brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables that were harvested less than 25 miles away. Photography courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. About three years ago, the southern California food bank added something novel to its system: a 40-acre farm. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 131

Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Many of us have had to fight, over and over and over again, to get folks in power to take food and agriculture seriously. But thats changing now.

Food 106

Food Family Farming Ranching Acre 106

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

It provides detailed information about the bee life cycle, beekeeping tools and equipment, and how bees make honey, with instructions on how to establish a hive, feed your bees, handle harmful Varroa mites , and harvest honey. Kamal: One of the kids in the [agricultural academy] program, Kamron, mentioned, “Mr.

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Farming Farming Food Agriculture 118

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. Currently, 44 percent of the world’s food is produced in arid and semi-arid lands.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

I’m raising my kids in agriculture.” I’m personally seeing the impacts on the ecosystem, the impacts on the environment,” Ferry said, “and then also trying to balance these competing demands for agriculture and city growth. The Agricultural Water Optimization Program was passed in 2023. We’re right in the thick of it.”

Water Rights 141

Water Rights Farming Farming Agriculture 141

Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs , more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. Grow Vertically Growing vertically allows for bigger harvests in compact gardening spaces. When youre working with limited square footage, consider growing up.

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Farming Farming Construction Crop 59

Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, growers are making fresh kokoleka, or chocolate in lelo Hawaii (Hawaiian language), through mindful agricultural practices: creating their own soil and compost, contracting with locals, and using organic fertilizer. Once the pods turn vibrant colors orange, red, maroon and yellow theyre ready to be harvested with clippers and sickles.

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Compost Marketing Farming Farming 78

Agricultural Economics Insights

JULY 3, 2023

Acreage In 2022, the USDA estimated that 93,200 acres of watermelon were harvested in the U.S. Watermelon Acres Harvested, 2016-2022. Perhaps the most surprising state on the list is Indiana, at 6,900 acres, ahead of Arizona and South Carolina. Watermelon Acres Harvested, 2022. Data Source: USDA NASS.

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Acre Harvest Harvester Harvesting 98

West Texas Livestock

MAY 28, 2024

million acres of hay harvested in Texas in 2023 underscore the pivotal role of hay production in sustaining livestock operations. Hay bale storage, a vital aspect of cattle production, takes center stage, particularly in winter when natural forages are scarce. The staggering 4.6

Forage 98

Forage Livestock Cattle Acre 98