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. Getting Started in Livestock, Part 1 Episode 228. But I’ve always wondered, isn’t there anything better you could do with that space?

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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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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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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2017, Larry Stone heard whispers about construction taking place near his home in Clayton County, Iowa. There has been some concern that the Supreme Beef well would rob water from other nearby wells that serve both homesteads and that are used for watering livestock.” Stone recalled recently.

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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. Cole Bush from Shepherdess Land and Livestock Co. Want to dive deeper into Lindsey’s story?

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Driven by supermarket price wars, retailers have been relentlessly pushing down the price that they offer to the farmers that supply them, who, when faced with this price pressure, have perceived the only option left to them is further intensification and enlargement of their farming operations and, in the case of livestock, animal numbers.

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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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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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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When they purchased the farm over 30 years ago it was an unproductive almond orchard and since then they have pulled the almonds out and utilized the sloped landscape to construct swales, establish a vineyard, and plant a wide variety of fruit trees which provide shelter while their flock of ducks grazes.

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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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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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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

Land Ownership – To qualify for a land loan, you must own or plan to buy 25 acres or more. A strong farm business plan should include a description of the farming operation, including the type of crops or livestock, the size of the farm, and the markets served. Minimum Loan Value – AgAmerica farm loans start at $50,000.

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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. 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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Civil Eats

MARCH 21, 2025

Brittenburg grows organic vegetables and raises livestock across 200 acres, and he needs help to shake off the winter and get things moving again. Farmers in Limbo Matthew Fitzgerald grows corn, soybeans, wheat, and beans on 3,000 acres in McLeod County, Minnesota. There just arent people that want to do this work, he said.

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