Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) hailed the House passage of two significant land management bills that are strongly supported by Americas livestock producers: the ACRES Act and the Fix Our Forests Act.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2025

Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has set an ambitious target of 385 million acres managed under written grazing management plans by 2050. The benefits of grazing management plans that are written or kept digitally are unparalleled for U.S.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s a figure that a group of researchers at Johns Hopkins have argued is incomplete, and used in order to “downplay the environmental impacts of animal agriculture.” million acres in the Texas Panhandle over the course of a week, gutting the state’s agricultural economy. Blazing wildfires have swept across 1.3

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

And these days, few new farmers can afford to buy land, according to Alaina: In the Imhoffs’ area of Iowa, farmland can sell for as high as US$25,000 per acre. While her family has been farming for at least four generations, there isn’t enough land for all of Alaina’s siblings to return to the family farm.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Brooklyn Grange’s massive rooftop farms —which on a few acres produce more than 100,000 pounds of produce for markets, wholesale buyers, CSAs, and the city’s largest convention center each year—were not. In New York City, for example, the only U.S. city represented, seven community gardens run by AmeriCorps were included. The authors.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

Adrian Lipscombe, Chef and Founder of the 40 Acres Project, which preserves the legacy of Black farmers and foodways, says that, for her, “the farmer is a part of the restaurant.” ” And while storytelling is critically important, there will be no systems-wide change without policy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Agwired

MARCH 12, 2024

The blaze has become the largest fire in state history, engulfing over a million acres and burning across several towns along the Texas Panhandle. Company representatives delivered the chicken to the Borger Salvation Army, which is working with local officials to provide relief to victims and emergency responders.

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Agwired

MARCH 26, 2024

These plans will shape public land use across 10 different states and tens of millions of Western acres. Despite this incredibly expansive scope, the BLM provided only 90 days to comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and only 60 days to comment on proposed ACECs.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

Department of Agriculture announced that starting on March 19 farmers can apply for the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program. per acre for the 2024 crop year. Stine Seed Company is proud to announce that March 27, 2025, will be officially proclaimed Women in Agriculture Day in Iowa.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

It also ensures a production system that is completely decentralized and much more stable and resilient than industrial animal agriculture with fermentation farms located in or close to towns and cities. This 485 million acres equates to 13 times the size of Iowa, an area almost the size of the Louisiana Purchase.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Their work tackles a range of food systems issues including food equity, animal agriculture, urbanization, food waste, seafood, and healthy and sustainable diets. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6 billion acres of land, and 620,000 miles of rivers.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2024

Many agricultural producers, including Alltech customers, have been devastated by the recent wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma. The destruction has been staggering: The most recent assessments estimate that more than 1.2

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. As president and CEO of the nonprofit Mercy for Animals, Garcés has long been a leader in the animal protection movement: her work led to a New York Times’ 2021 op-ed about the harms of the chicken industry.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will accept nominations and applications for the fourth Cohort of the Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders through November 17. Preliminary analysis of corn silage samples in the U.S.

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