Acre Cash Crop Distribution 
Civil Eats
JULY 2, 2024
The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. In just three years, the 25-year-old entrepreneur, who started off with a seasonal pushcart, has opened two shops and now distributes pints to about 60 grocery stores in Oregon and Washington.
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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UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Image 3: The global distribution of soil acidity and alkalinity is largely related to annual rainfall and its excess over evapotranspiration. Except for the frozen artic regions, the distribution of acid soils (red areas on the map) corresponds quite closely to the distribution of forest vegetation.
The Equation
JUNE 5, 2023
According to the Salt Control Program of the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV SALTS), “Salt accumulations have resulted in approximately 250,000 acres being taken out of production and 1.5 million acres have been declared salinity impaired in the Valley.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.
World Agri-Tech
JANUARY 3, 2024
Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “ Farmers don’t like “paying by acre”, incentives are perverse. In contrast, agtech has fewer corporate buyers, hard-to-reach distributed customers, all of them growing commodified food at low value per acre and hardly anything going public, and those that do, regretting it.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not. Such losses could dissuade farmers from planting cover crops, no matter the financial incentives.
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