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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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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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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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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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. The current situation: Most American farmland acreage is dedicated to animal feed and fuel production.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

JUNE 21, 2023

Since hail season is upon us, here’s some helpful answers to the most frequently asked questions we get about crop-hail insurance coverage so you can feel confident in signing up with us. Crop-Hail Insurance Frequently Asked Questions: “How do I determine how much Crop-Hail coverage I need for my farm?”

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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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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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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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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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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Buying farmland is like investing in gold—and farm property loans can help you do it. People sometimes refer to farmland as an investment in gold, plus a coupon,” says Bruce Sherrick, professor at the University of Illinois. Cash Rental and Crop Share – Generating income by renting your land to other farmers for planting.

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Agwired

AUGUST 18, 2023

Together, MyLand and AgriLife Research will implement a statewide initiative focused on soil health integrating upwards of 12,000 acres of commercial farmland within the next two years aiming to cover over 20 unique crops, multiple ecosystems and soil types, and several growing regions.

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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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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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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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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. The incentive to grow corn under the Wall Street Farm Bill is so strong that processors like Cargill have sought out new uses for the crop.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 31, 2024

farmers are using a new solution to treat soil compaction – a problem that affects over 68 million acres of farmland and significantly reduces crop yields. Three years of independent field trials have confirmed significant yield boosts of up to 34 percent in a multitude of crops, with an 86 percent win rate.

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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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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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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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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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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

LAND ACCESS The Census reports 880 million acres of privately held farmland in the U.S., This is a loss of 20 million acres or nearly 2.2% of total farmland. This represents the largest loss of farmland, both percentage and acreage-wise, that we have seen between Census reports in the past twenty-five years.

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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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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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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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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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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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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. Meristem Crop Performance unveiled the next generation of their patented BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY delivery system.

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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.” 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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