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. Porter’s farm faces another common challenge: he doesn’t own his farmland.

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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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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. When obtaining a farmland loan, there are a variety of factors that impact your credit score. Minimum Loan Value – AgAmerica farm loans start at $50,000.

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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.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Only two EnerWealth installations have so far been constructed, with a total capacity of just half a megawatt. acres of a 65-acre property, and the developments she’s seeking to start this year will range from 6 to 30 acres. peaked in 1910 at about 16 to 19 million acres according to the USDA.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Farm numbers decreased in every size category except one: Those operating 5,000 acres or more. Large farms now control 42 percent of the farmland in the country. 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.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. That’s one of the things she says is driving farmland loss in North Carolina, she said.

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Farmland 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. The foundation declined to make Eikenberg available for an interview, but Weisblum described the meeting as a constructive conversation. Two companies—U.S. Sugar and the Florida Crystals Corp.

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