Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Brandon Davis Brandon helps manage a 12,000-acre operation alongside his father, running a small cow-calf herd of 50 head. He oversees cattle care, mechanical work on equipment, and plays a key role in planting, harvesting, and managing seasonal help.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The so-called land sparers, including by the look of it, the Government, have concluded that the best way to reconcile these tensions is to produce as much food as possible on the best agricultural land, leaving more space for nature, renewable energy generation and recreation. Let me give an example.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Canada’s current agricultural production model is unsustainable and in desperate need of reform. While the farming population represents only a small percentage of the overall population, the impact of these issues extend far beyond the agricultural community.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

Industrial agriculture is a term often used negatively, but is it the villain it’s made out to be? The debate surrounding industrial agriculture and farm consolidation is complex and multifaceted. Recently, this has become a more pressing topic of concern with the release of the 2022 Census of Agriculture.

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Caff

MARCH 15, 2022

Speak up today or at the upcoming city council meeting on March 22nd to join CAFF in saying: we want urban agriculture and believe that locally-grown food contributes to a healthier, happier and more resilient community! U nder their more modest proposal, agriculture would remain illegal on most properties.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon , with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. But what does regenerative agriculture mean? It’s official: Regenerative agriculture has been hijacked. This distinction,” says Newton, “raises interesting implications about how you define regenerative agriculture.” There are currently 8.3

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Editor’s Note: According to the USDA, agriculture accounted for around 11% of carbon emissions in the USA in 2020. To improve humanity’s impact on the climate, we will need to change the way we approach agriculture in the future. However, the rise of regenerative agriculture has sparked a number of questions.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In return, Mexican students also came to Canada to learn about agriculture on the Albertan prairies. He also traveled to the island nation of Cuba to learn about urban agriculture and high-intensive vegetable production. Eventually, they were growing food on 1-acre of land spread out on multiple plots throughout the city.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Viva Farms is a nonprofit that helps new and limited-resource farmers with access to land, equipment and more, and this site is home to 18 incubator farms and a half-acre student farm. There are no consistently accessible mechanisms for sustainably disposing of plastic mulch film at the end of its life. Strawberries from Viva Farms.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Grow Dat is a seven-acre urban farm with 13 full-time adult staff, and a rotating crew of teenagers who work there after school. Photo by Minh Ha/Verite News. “I

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from other presenters showed that right now 30 percent of the world’s agricultural soils are degraded and that is expected to increase to 90 percent by 2050. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. Folks explained to me that Colombia is still behind the industrialization curve.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The last agricultural census, taken in 2017, showed that only 1.5 percent of farms offering both agritourism and direct-to-consumer sales (such as through U-pick, farm stands, and farmers’ markets) were under 100 acres. Census of Agriculture in 2007; while the trend long predates the term, it has been growing ever since.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Leadership from the USDA and agriculture schools, like the one at Iowa State University, influence farm methods; but even recommendations to reduce farm chemicals have unintended outcomes. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. The total nitrogen requirement for wheat can vary, but it’s often in the range of 60 to 120 pounds per acre. Adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium are typically maintained at 15-30 pounds per acre of P2O5 and K2O, respectively.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What agricultural problems do you address? To bring farmers true performance, Switch is building, fine-tuning, and validating every step in the mechanism of action of biological nitrogen fertilizer production. What is your value proposition? Be specific. What have been the pivotal “aha” moments that shaped this strategy? Science first.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Positive impacts can be made with just one or two adaptive grazing events per year on a given acre.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. The harvester has a vibrating mechanism that shakes the berries off the branches and collects them onto a conveyor.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Center pivots are also used on larger areas than other types of systems - approximately 20 acres (8 hectares) per machine and up to 1,000 acres (405 hectares) with multiple machines running at once. Once everything has been laid out properly, it shouldn't take more than half an hour per acre foot (.5

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life. A stevia plant.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. A 2% return on agricultural land was no longer a satisfactory return on capital and the pressure was on and is still on today.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 The best way to do that is to start rebuilding agriculture in the Delta, from the dirt up.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

It has been hailed as the savior of agriculture and has been credited with our ability to feed the world. The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.),

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Dana Christel, a conservation specialist at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, oversees the grant program for the state agency. She said about $4.2 million has been allocated to 41 watershed groups since funds were first distributed in fiscal year 2016. Once again, it’s a learning curve,” he said. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

By way of comparison, Climeworks, which uses mechanical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in rock, reportedly charges between $500 and $1,000 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent removed. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide. he asked. “Is Is this going to be the Monsanto of the sea?”

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that. What is Lime?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. When the U.S. billion federal settlement between Black farmers and the USDA.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change. The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. The problem is even more pronounced because agricultural injuries and fatalities for non-working children are not recorded. Suddenly, the 53-year-old felt a tire slip under him. “I

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

The mechanical disturbance of soil through forms of tillage destroys soil aggregate structure, leaving the collapsed soil structure vulnerable to erosion, which sets the stage for wind and water erosion. The deaths and injuries that occurred due to the May 1 dust storm should be a powerful incentive for all of us in agriculture to do better.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

During 2023, the Sustainable Food Trust has been very much involved in the agricultural transition. Through the SMI, 20 task forces have now been created – one for each sector, covering everything from agriculture to aviation, from banking to plastics and, well, you name it and it’s there.

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