Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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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.

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Methane emissions created by flooded rice paddies account for about 10 percent of global agricultural emissions.

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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.

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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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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.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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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.

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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.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable. Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax.

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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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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!

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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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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Marys, Ohio, a lake polluted by high levels of agricultural runoff, published a study that quantified the concentration of microcystins, produced by cyanobacteria, in air samples. Due to this agricultural runoff, the Salton Sea is hypereutrophic, a term scientists use to describe water bodies that contain excessive nutrients.

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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.

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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 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.

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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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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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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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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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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.”

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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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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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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDA released its September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports, influencing bearish corn and soybean markets. Corn acres increased by a whopping 800,000 to 94.9 million, bumping total projected harvest acres to 87.1 bushels per acre, while total harvested acres increased to 83.6

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As a born and raised Nebraskan, I grew up understanding the impact that agriculture has on our state—and our stomachs. I started understanding the crucial impact of regenerative agriculture practices on the food I serve to my customers and the food served to the world once I became a chef and business owner.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Aaron LaPointe sits behind a desk in the Little Priest Tribal College’s library basement in Winnebago, Nebraska, ready to speak to a class in a new program he helped develop: diversified agriculture. The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. And we just let them use our land to do that.”

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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