Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.

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Farming Farming Crop Acre 112

Agwired

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The PPF Project is in its fourth year, involved 11 farms managing over 34,000 acres and 40,000 head of dairy cattle in two Wisconsin counties. Farmers for Sustainable Food, Houston Engineering, Inc. New research published in Scientific Reports describes a breakthrough in nitrogen fertilizer technology.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Construction 64

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I just returned from a farm consult that included a 70-acre timber harvest 4 years ago. The 70-acre logged-over acreage lay nicely and of course the loggers had put in access roads to get in and out with their log trucks. That area is coming back beautifully in assorted hardwoods and poplars, some of which are already 15 feet tall.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 69

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 129

Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

DIY Construction and Cost-Effectiveness The drying rack can be easily replicable by other farmers. Each rack can be constructed for approximately $100-150, making this a cost-effective solution for many small-scale farmers.

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Technology Farming Farming Harvesting 98

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

“Everything that is part of the standard was tried and tested, from breeds to how long you feed them, to the right kind of welfare aspect to consider in the coop construction.” acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. ” But the grand vision doesn’t end there.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 97

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. But in the next 10 years, or 20 or 30 ? It’s not looking good.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The new cafe and market are housed in a renovated building that is part of the larger Circle East development in East Cleveland—a five-phase, 30-acre, and estimated $122-million commercial development project owned by Cuyahoga Land Bank. Image by Loiter Despite the clear community support, Loiter’s emergence wasn’t without strife.

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Food Construction Marketing Processing 75

Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

Photo by Ilana Newman) That changed in June 2022 when the solar farm, a project of Empire Electric Association (EEA), began construction. OneEnergy also completed construction before nesting season. 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.

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Farming Farming Distribution Construction 52

ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

It all began with the purchase of a 20-acre lawn that conveniently came with a home. I found a well-constructed woven wire fence with proper supports can and will hold goats. But I’ve always wondered, isn’t there anything better you could do with that space? I get it: farming isn’t for everyone. But mowing isn’t for everyone, either.

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Livestock Rural Development Construction Production 74

The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We spent the afternoon looking at the 260-acre property on which they have a contract. They would grow almost all their own food, prepare it, preserve it, cut firewood for their wood-fired heat sources and construct timber-frame buildings from scratch.

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Construction Food Farming Farming 52

The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

Every sector of agriculture has been purposefully constructed to exclude and silence communities of color. million in the 2023 farm bill to facilitate equitable access to one million acres of land for the next generation of farmers. Creating and implementing measures like those listed above will serve to set farmers up for success.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 93

Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2017, Larry Stone heard whispers about construction taking place near his home in Clayton County, Iowa. During that construction, they created and received permitting for an industrial wastewater treatment lagoon. A guy came roaring up on his little ATV and said, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’” Stone recalled recently.

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Manure Cattle Construction Farming 142

Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

Generations before Pocknett’s great uncle founded the First Light Shellfish Farm on Popponesset Bay, in the 1970s, Pocknett says it’s likely the tribe cultivated bivalve species and maintained the shallows with ancient clam gardening techniques, constructing “reefs” out of rocks in the sandy bottoms of the bays and rivers.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Aquaculture 133

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.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 130

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry now lives alongside his cousin in Richmond, Kentucky, on the 30-acre Ballew Farm, named after his great uncle Atrus, who died at age 100. He invited me to spend the summer in New York City in 1968 working construction. It seemed like the whole world was in New York City.

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Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 96

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

The solar farm Alliant Energy completed construction on the 10-acre Alliant Energy Solar Farm on the ISU research farms near Ames, Iowa in the fall of 2023. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold.

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Crop Production Agriculture Agriculture 122

Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. To process their kelp, Barnacle has slowly constructed a 3,000-square-foot production floor and additional warehouse. “Anything you do on a boat is a long day,” said Scott.

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Marketing Harvesting Harvest Harvester 97

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More (Virtual) Fencing Facilitates Animal Movement Sam’s family has been farming Georges Mills’ 90 acres since the 1750s, and the infrastructure harkens back to a time before farmers used even simple machinery. He also had to construct pathways to move the goats back to the barn for milking. “He

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 113

ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are 60-acre landfills that are being filled up with rice hulls,” he said, “so we set up to try to find a greener alternative.” “We started this journey in 2019 to look at what we can do with all the ag waste generated across the river in Arkansas,” Bryan said.

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Production Orchard Technology Marketing 52

The Equation

MAY 13, 2024

Particle matter pollutants consist of extremely small solid and liquid particles in the air, originating from various sources like oil refineries and fossil fuel burning, fracking, transportation, conventional agriculture, wildfires, construction, and biomass burning (like heating with fireplaces). These particles are categorized by size.

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Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 96

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Constructing simple fencing can help keep rabbits away and planting good companion plants like marigolds can go a long way to keep unwanted critters away from your precious plants. Some common pests that set back my garden this summer were squash vine borers, tomato hornworms and birds.

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Crop Seeding Fertilizer Harvester 103

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. Between 2021 and 2022, the Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN), an Arizona-based conservation non-profit, worked with the U.S.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 130

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Because she doesn’t have at least five acres, her application to join the federal Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program – which would have enabled her to accept food vouchers from low-income seniors – was denied four times. “We need the state of New Jersey to take urban [agriculture] seriously,” said Mustafa.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 97

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh. Photo credit: Edwin Remsberg) Since colonial times, settlers along the coast cut the dominant perennial marsh grass, spartina patens, into what they called salt hay.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 92

Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

Land Ownership – To qualify for a land loan, you must own or plan to buy 25 acres or more. Usually, lenders ask for this schedule to construct a cash flow analysis. – Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. resident aliens.

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Farming Farming Real Estate Processing 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The dam blocked 1,400 miles of salmon spawning habitat and flooded 56,000 acres of land, as well as the ecosystems that supported whole communities of animals and people. No fish passage was built then, nor since.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Construction 66

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So, for those animals, the road is 100 feet wide, and yet, it’s denying them access to millions, potentially millions of acres of good habitat. We can prevent new construction in bad places. There are some really heartbreaking cases of herds that starve because they can’t reach certain key valleys in the winter.

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Ranching Ecology Plowing Construction 112

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment At Peachwood Farms, a flat, 1,897-acre expanse at the heart of the valley’s groundwater conservation trial, Ivers stood amid fallowed fields bordered by circles of barley and areas being revegetated with native seeds.

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Water Rights Acre Farming Farming 101

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Student lab assistants traversed a 20-acre section of the 300-acre park, treading in straight lines regardless of topography, up and down steep inclines, over and under downed branches.

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Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 116

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. Finally, in 2017, they found the 75-acre plot where the co-op farms today.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. We realized because of the way they’re harvested, we didn’t need a lot of clearance for equipment, but we really needed to protect the soils and protect the plants during the construction phase.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. It is one of at least eight underground greenhouses that, over the past decade, have been built or are being constructed on the reservation – which has one of the highest poverty rates in the US. Credit: Dawn E. LeBeau/The Guardian. One storm knocks that all out.”

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Greenhouse Food Construction Harvesting 52

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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Biofuel Acre Agriculture Agriculture 59

Agwired

JULY 26, 2023

Yanmar America, a leading provider of tractors, UTVs, construction equipment and industrial equipment, has unveiled a new parts e-commerce platform , aimed at enhancing customer service.

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Crop Rotation Science Agriculture Agriculture 52

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Farm numbers decreased in every size category except one: Those operating 5,000 acres or more. Cover crop acres increased by 2.6 million acres to 18 million total acres, but that’s out of just under 300 million acres of cropland. Large farms now control 42 percent of the farmland in the country.

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Farming Farming Acre Food 128