Acre Crop Yield Farmland Forage 
Trimble Agriculture
DECEMBER 21, 2023
If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. If livestock are eating higher quality forage, they are more likely to grow better and have an overall healthier lifestyle,” says Cameron Flowers, Managing Director for AgAmerica. “If
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
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Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Runoff from U.S.
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.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. In Grotegut’s case, wheat grown in grasslands is certified as “mixed-species forage” by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. I just seed the minimal level of 10 pounds [of flax] an acre with my peas.
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