Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

In the States, Sorghum is currently used mainly for creating biofuels and feeding livestock, but incorporating it into the American diet could have a long-lasting positive impact on our environment. During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

New agriculture census data released by USDA shows the number of farms operating in the United States and the number of farm acres have both fallen significantly. The number of farm acres fell to 880,100,848, a loss of more than 20 million acres from just five years earlier. Read the full 2022 Census of Agriculture here.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

We traveled to Dickenson College Organic Farm in Carlisle, PA to visit Matt Steiman, Farm Energy and Livestock Manager at the farm. The farm is a beautiful certified organic working farm situated on 90 acres in the south-central part of the state where they grow vegetables and raise beef, lamb, and layers.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

farm production more than doubled, and farm size increased from an average of 215 acres in 1950 to 464 acres in 2023. is losing an average of two tons of topsoil per acre annually. Irrigated acres have more than doubled since 1960. On a conventional row crop farm, any given acre only produces one type of food annually.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 But it should be.

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