Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage.

Forage 85

Forage Livestock Farmland Distribution 85

Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. The new law removed any motivation to conserve land.

Family Farming 90

Family Farming Acre Farming Farming 90

Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. The challenge: Between the two of them, the couple had limited agricultural experience, and none in cattle. Certainly, we are not solving that problem.

Ranching 113

Ranching Cattle Farming Farming 113

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. The following passages are excerpted from Bad Naturalist, and have been lightly edited for length.

Meadow 45

Meadow Farming Farming Orchard 45

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

Ranching 110

Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 110

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. Can me and my husband buy land or afford land?”

Real Estate 117

Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres. ppm for nitrates.

Fertilizer 145

Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. million, in the 2022 census.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. That’s already happening in San Diego, with successful results.

Grain 138

Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability.

Ruralism 117

Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

Supply Chain 145

Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email.

Seeding 144

Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I

Ranching 52

Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it. Hunter’s not alone in wondering how to have it all, climatically speaking.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

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. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors.

Orchard 94

Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 94

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari.

Agriculture 71

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 71

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. Across farmland in the lower parts of the province, producers dealt with the deaths of thousands of animals, including more than 630,000 chickens , while 2,500 acres of blueberries wilted.

Farming 82

Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 82

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. cattle industry will be effectively bankrupt. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S. Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound.

Science 76

Science Production Food Cattle 76

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

Farming 130

Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

Ranching 52

Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

Solar Grazing Site Specifications and Management The site is in a 15-acre array that produces 5 MW of DC and 3.375 MW of AC, enough to power approximately 1,100 homes. This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites.

Seeding 75

Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

Agriculture 96

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 96

Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc.,

Ranching 111

Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. Garrett worries a lot about farmland being taken out of production with the development of more and more solar farms across the West.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Distribution Construction 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 It is always overdrawn.”

Farming 95

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 95

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. The University of Maine is studying this example of dual-use agrivoltaics.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Trimble Agriculture

MAY 29, 2024

For example, Illinois Congressman Mike Bost introduced the Securing Our Lands and Resources (SOLAR) Act to protect prime farmland as solar installation rapidly increases in popularity. Some legislators, like Bost, are concerned that this transition to solar will eliminate more of America’s precious farmland.

Farming 104

Farming Farming Food Crop 104

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s running a $5 million project that will convert manure from a woman-owned cattle feedlot into organic fertilizer and distribute it to BIPOC and other underserved farmers in urban and high poverty areas in Ohio and southeast Michigan. The situation at Central State University looks very different.

Manure 119

Manure Fertilizer Distribution Farming 119

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. America has roughly 35 million acres of lawn and 36 million acres housing and feeding recreational horses.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. In the Gaza Strip, over a million people are facing catastrophic hunger.

Farming 127

Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

and drove down prices for cattle ranchers], Vilsack didn’t stop them. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. I haven’t seen something in modern American history so ripe for bipartisan reform than the meat industry.” ” When JBS [ bought dozens of meat processing companies in the U.S.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Marketing 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

Plantation 125

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 125

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. By 2017, they accounted for only 1.6 percent of the nation’s 3.4

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98