Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increase Yields More diverse rotations can boost crop yields and resilience.

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Agwired

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment found that replacing 40 pounds of synthetic nitrogen with Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 can increase corn yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Other results from the studies indicated higher corn yields.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. Adjust Fertilizer for Area Multiply the fertilizer requirement per acre by the size of your field to determine the total amount of fertilizer needed. Just match it the best you can.

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Agwired

JANUARY 30, 2025

Farm Journal has entered a strategic partnership with Randy Dowdy and David Hula, lifelong farmers and founders of Total Acre. The expansive collaboration includes the launch of a new video podcast along with industry-leading content that will be distributed across Farm Journals omni-channel platforms. Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Where I live in North Carolina, growers with large cucumber and squash farms rent honey bees at a cost of $100 or more per hive and require 1-2 hives per acre during each season. Is there an alternative to the expense or time investment in honey bee pollination for a farmer growing pollinator-dependent crops?

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Abou Najm’s research , which focuses on the productivity of a wide range of crops grown underneath solar panels, is seen as a California success story. As a result of SGMA, AFT estimates 4 percent, or 212,000 acres, of cropland in the San Joaquin Valley alone could be permanently retired and 27 percent intermittently fallow.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. Despite their efforts, Marchant’s River Berry Farm quickly lost upward of 10 acres of crops, with lettuce and summer squash suddenly swimming in the flooded fields. He watched its banks warily as a steady downpour soaked the landscape.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

He elaborates that in Kenya, Farmer.Chat is improving agricultural call center operations, halving response times and increasing advisory accuracy, while AI-driven fertilizer and water management advisories have boosted crop yields while reducing input costs in India. This has resulted in up to 25% yield increase in key markets.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

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 billion in payments to agricultural producers and landowners enrolled in all CRP programs, and more than 23 million acres of private land in the US was being conserved.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On the other hand, conventional management of cropland and pastureland has acidified many millions of acres unnaturally quickly in the past century or so, and this is the real issue at hand. Page 397) Manmade Soil Acidification The processes listed above naturally take a long time to play out and find an equilibrium.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. And they’re pushing innovation.

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World Agri-Tech

JUNE 12, 2024

This collaboration aims to revolutionize crop spraying for growers in Indiana AgZen, a leading provider of precision ag equipment and spray technology, is announcing a strategic partnership with WHIN, a prominent nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate adoption of technologies in the Wabash Heartland region of Indiana.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia. Farmer B tills 50% of their fields, uses cover crops on 40%, and uses stable nitrogen sources. Consider this scenario.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

Beyond just improving crop yields and reducing input costs, farms can monitor their fields from across the world. They can use drones to get aerial views without trekking through acres and acres. Advances in agriculture technology have allowed farmers to do incredible things in recent years.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As well, changes in temperature make it harder for plants to photosynthesize, so crop yields are dropping. That’s right, folks; climate change is not just taking down staple crops, it’s coming for your most beloved condiments. Mustard yields are way down The global mustard market is worth about $6.87 percent through 2029.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

A year after its launch, the Regenerative Agriculture Financing program announced that 83% of participating farmers who completed program requirements met environmental standards for fertilizer efficiency and soil health practices, while also meeting or exceeding national crop yield benchmarks. interest rate rebate.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

No-till drills and roller crimpers make cover cropping easier. And the world of precision farming methods, like GPS and sensors, save water, use fewer chemicals, and enhance crop yields with less environmental harm. Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Rootella Carbon harnesses the power of Rootella – highly effective mycorrhizal inoculants that are proven to sequester significant amounts of carbon in cropland (1-4 tCO 2 eq/acre annually). million acres in 17 countries. Rootella Carbon delivers on that vision by paving the way to a gigaton of CO 2 sequestration in the next decade.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. But he understands the razor-thin budgets of his fellow farmers, which forces many of them to pick and choose which crops they can afford to grow.

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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. In addition, despite concerns that the sustainable practices that support mammals may reduce crop yields, some indications point to the opposite conclusion. “By A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Its also an area that has been battered by human-caused climate change. Photography via Shutterstock.

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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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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are some of the key takeaways I gleaned from my review of Chapter 11 of NCA 5 : “Weather whiplash” is already hurting US agriculture Extreme weather events like floods, droughts, and heat waves, along with altered precipitation patterns, have affected agriculture by negatively impacting productivity, and made crop yields much less predictable.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction to crop irrigation systems Irrigation systems are an important part of growing crops, and they can be crucial when it comes to crop yields. Without proper irrigation, many crops would not be able to grow at all. 5 acre) of water spread across several acres worth of crops!

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

The project will introduce a state-of-the art technology that aims to transform how and when farmers water their fields, optimizing crop yields, reducing water withdrawals and lowering operational costs. bushels per acre. Harrell’s achievement comes just one year after he set the previous record of 206.8

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. megawatts of DC power.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 19, 2023

The benefits of agrovoltaics for farmers can include higher crop yields in arid regions, water conservation, crop protection from wind and hail, improved soil, and more, said Kominek. Many solar panels are built on a single-axis solar tracker, which allows the panel to pivot to follow the sun throughout the day.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Application at these rates minimizes the risk of “burning” the crop. Far from it.

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Agwired

JANUARY 10, 2024

solar module installation which features the company’s greenhouse film technology that helps reduce energy use and increase crop yields. Crop Nutrition Week returns February 5-9 with more experts, more insights, more fertilizer management strategies and more prizes to win.

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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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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, NC. Together, the pair went through sets of picture books, until Hudson was able to sound out the words by herself. Unfortunately, most issues caused by Stroup’s slow internet connection are not so easily solved. They raise beef cattle and plant wheat and soybeans.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, Nortth Carolina. Together, the pair went through sets of picture books, until Hudson was able to sound out the words by herself. Unfortunately, most issues caused by Stroup’s slow internet connection are not so easily solved. They raise beef cattle and plant wheat and soybeans.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

Even putting aside organics, a farmer with a thousand acres running a grass-fed regenerative beef operation on paper might appear less efficient next to a thousand acre farm growing corn. More rocking cover crops—in 2014, this field only grew rye that reached my knee.

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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. While he claims most of the barley grew naturally from the seeds of last year’s crop, the adjusters questioned his intentions. Crabtree had a lower pea yield, which he attributes to the drought. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not. Such losses could dissuade farmers from planting cover crops, no matter the financial incentives.

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