Acre Cash Crop Science 
UnderstandingAg
APRIL 3, 2025
By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. In fact, from 2008-2016, croplands expanded at a rate of over one million acres per year, with the eastern half of the Dakotas leading the charge. Its much more complex than that. Unfortunately, 69.5% in some spots.
UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Anything with a positive charge is called a cation in science-speak. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.
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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. And though the science is inconclusive around the health impacts , dairy products remain a staple in food assistance programs as a source of protein and other essential nutrients.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 25, 2023
Dan Johnson is a professor of environmental science at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers. A male clearwing grasshopper. Does it work?
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.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. In 2022, the state and the federal government agreed to return more than 1,000 acres to the Onondaga Nation. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell.
World Agri-Tech
JANUARY 3, 2024
If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “ Farmers don’t like “paying by acre”, incentives are perverse. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.
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