Western FarmPress

JULY 18, 2023

Crop acres shifted according to the last USDA report, which has made farmers slow down on making purchasing decisions.

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Farmland Acre Crop 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 127

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Clamoungou stood at the end of a 100-foot-long crop bed studded by the wilting leaves and sagging stalks of the last remaining collards. While the cover crops prepped the land, Clamoungou and his crew prepped themselves, along with the equipment, infrastructure and seedlings they’d need for a successful growing season. Still, W.E.B.

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Crop Farmland Acre Food 107

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 136

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. The remainder of the crops will be planted in the spring. I think that’s worth working on.”

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Crop Production Agriculture Agriculture 119

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S. More than 75 percent of farmland in the U.S. That is a 7.4

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: Let’s start with the basics.

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Farmland Ecology Cultivation Farming 68

Todays Farmer Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Missouri landowners, agricultural lenders, rural appraisers and others with firsthand knowledge of acreage transactions are invited to respond to the annual Missouri Farmland Value Opinion Survey. Respondents of the 2023 survey said they expected land prices to increase in 2024, particularly in the western region of Missouri.

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Farmland Acre Pasture Ruralism 52

DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Change is coming, but slower than we need Compared to the 2017 census, no-till practices and cover crops were up but not at the rate needed to keep pace with climate change. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres.

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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumption of crops or animals grown on PFAS-contaminated land puts humans at high risk of illness. Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. The state later discovered, however, that the sludge contained harmful PFAS.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 131

ProAg

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

America’s crop insurers are committed to building on the foundational principles of crop insurance to strengthen the farm safety net and offer more risk management products to more farmers. million crop insurance policies, which protected more than $205 billion worth of crops and livestock. Farmers spent $6.8

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Crop Acre Farmland Agriculture 52

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Crop Agriculture Agriculture Food 114

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 15, 2024

Farm safety net subsidies reward an industrial farming model that contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and farmland consolidation in agriculture. This week is the Farm Bill for All Farmers Week of Action: Conservation Not Consolidation. We’ve made calling and emailing your lawmakers as easy as possible.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 105

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. One big issue is what crops can work well for large-scale utility projects. Soybeans are one example.

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Farming Farming Forage Acre 97

Tillable

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Hurricane Helene's Impact on Agriculture: A Closer Look at Crop and Landowner Damage In the wake of Hurricane Helene, many in the agricultural community have been taken aback by the widespread damage across key farming regions in the Southeast.

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Crop Agriculture Agriculture Acre 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska’s growing days. In 2021, the USDA listed the average value for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. The 2017 U.S. In Florida, it’s $7,300.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 90

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Farmland Food Farming Farming 127

SILT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Story County Supports Farmland Preservation Initiative Story County Board of Supervisors Approves Resolution of Support for Circle Our Cities Initiative West Branch, IA — The Story County Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution in support of the Circle Our Cities initiative from the nonprofit Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT).

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Farmland Food Acre Farming 40

UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

The image was taken on June 2, 2022, right after planting, but before the typical row crops were growing. There's 270 acres inside that red boundary (so consider that when determining perspective and the percentage of area-wide coverage comparatively. Can you see how different, and "out of place" it seems to be on this image?

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Fertilizer Crop Acre Farmland 104

Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

Today’s beginning farmers are passionate about growing nourishing foods, diversified crops and building soil; yet because of astronomical real estate costs, most farmers are unable to purchase land on which to operate. Across the country, farmland is being lost to development at a rate of more than 2,000 acres per day.

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Farming Farming Farmland Real Estate 101

The Farmers Daughter USA

AUGUST 29, 2023

Farmers sometimes use irrigation to keep thirsty crops watered (learn about types of irrigation systems ). But it might surprise you to learn that only a small percentage of row crops are actually irrigated. According to the USDA, only 12 million acres of corn are irrigated, which isn’t a lot when you realize that U.S.

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Crop Acre Farmland Yield 98

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze. The fire burned right around them,” says the 73-year old rancher and owner of Diamond B Ranch, noting the intact areas—some as big as a quarter acre. That’s the fight I’m in,” Balthazar adds.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 106

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. “If Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres.

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 133

AgriLife Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

of Arizona will seek to improve soil health across 12,000 acres of commercial farmland in Texas to enhance quality of life and economic return for farmers. Texas A&M AgriLife Research, MyLand Company Inc. Research efforts over the.

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Farmland Acre Agriculture Agriculture 84

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

food and agriculture and is a critical tool for farmers, researchers, and stakeholders because of the wealth of data it contains about everything from farmer demographics to cover crop acreage. At the same time, the average size of farms increased slightly to 463 acres, a trend that has continued since the 2012 Census. a decrease of 6.1

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 85

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.” Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 120

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. states have standards for panel height and shading. states have standards for panel height and shading.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 132

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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Marketing Farmland Distribution Real Estate 96

Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. I n the first year, the farm grew yellow peas as a transition crop and had a hail event that wasn’t covered by crop insurance in Minnesota.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 102

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 140

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. Increased Yields Soil testing combined with crop and fertilization management can increase yields significantly. The total nutrient value was calculated at $1.4MM (or $2K per acre).

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Fertilizer Yield Acre Crop Yield 111

The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest. It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Farmland 98

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Additionally, the diversity of Farquhar’s crops and the chemical-free nature of his farm also attracted and supported small mammals, he said. “We land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 117

DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

He mentioned that the collaboration will pursue many initiatives, but right now their primary focus is the Climate-Smart Commodities partnership that was awarded a $95 million USDA grant to advance cover crops and a sustainability marketplace in 20 states. Enrollment is open now for the cover crop program. appeared first on DTN.

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Crop Supply Chain Farming Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It does this by providing farmers with financial and technical assistance to actively manage, maintain, and expand conservation activities – like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management, buffer strips, and the transition to organic farming – even while they work their lands for production.

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 123