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 132

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 98

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

Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

– Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. 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. Who Can Apply?

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Farming Farming Real Estate Processing 52

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

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 104

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. Our goal is to understand the impact of construction — how will blueberries react to being driven over?”

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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 Harvest 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. The battle inspired Trom Eayrs to become a rural activist and help other communities fight what she calls a CAFO “takeover” of the Midwest. Enough,” Lowell said, “is enough.” I know their playbook.

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Ruralism Construction Farming Farming 114

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

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Based in Oxford, North Carolina, the company’s goal is to maximize the benefits of the solar boom for rural communities. Only two EnerWealth installations have so far been constructed, with a total capacity of just half a megawatt. That mission drives every facet of EnerWealth’s development approach, starting with site selection.

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Ruralism Farmland Acre Production 106

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It reads as a love letter to his land, his herd, and his rural community and a manifesto on how and why to farm in a way that protects them all. Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. The book exceeded my expectations.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 131

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. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 126

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. He gets more pounds out of his acres than most farmers by controlling the smaller operation personally.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture candidate Sarah Taber plans to revive the state’s agricultural economy through common-sense business practices, infrastructure, and improvement of farm labor, all things that resonate with her rural constituents. Building rural livelihoods is the thing we know how to do.

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Farmland 142