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 130

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Her approach is that new conservation, finance, opportunities that are directly accessible to tribes should be decided upon. And so, this is exciting because it’s able to add to what they already do, with some of the work around climate finance as well, says Kirkwood. Mary Oxendine. Courtesy of Mary Oxendine. Ahn Heka Spa.

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Greenhouse Seeding Finance Acre 86

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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Begin by assessing the purpose of your landwhether it's for crop production, livestock grazing, forestry, or a combination of activities. Takeaways: Identify the type of farming you want to pursue (crop, livestock, mixed). You might also take a look at this article on how to finance your farm 5. Is it zoned agricultural?

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Enjoy our conversation about postwar trucking culture, crop insurance, and English perspectives on the countryside, below. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Photo by Christopher Paul High on Unsplash. And are those things related?

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. In 2014, she and Rafkin started transitioning to organic.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 126

NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

EPA’s program objectives for the GGRF: to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants; to deliver benefits to American communities, particularly low-income and disadvantaged communities; and to mobilize financing and private capital to stimulate additional deployment of greenhouse gas- and air pollution-reducing projects.

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Greenhouse Forestry Finance Supply Chain 130

Agwired

MARCH 20, 2025

Department of Agricultures Office of Energy and Environmental Policy regarding the interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks. market entry, regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives. The Renewable Fuels Association submitted formal comments to the U.S.

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Cultivation Agriculture Agriculture Biofuel 49

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Othow went to law school to learn more about the financing and regulation of solar power, and after gaining real-world experience with Strata Clean Energy in Chapel Hill, she struck out on her own with EnerWealth in 2017. acres of a 65-acre property, and the developments she’s seeking to start this year will range from 6 to 30 acres.

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Ruralism Farmland Acre Production 143

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 145

ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

I want to grow crops that are calorie- and nutrient-dense, and store well, like beans, winter squash, sweet potatoes, and dent cornbut these require a lot of land. With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The rain that came down hard the week earlier spells the end of strawberry season, says farmer Francisco Farias, but he still has raspberries, one of his favorite crops to grow. They expanded from just half an acre to having 10 acres at Viva Farms and 10 acres on a nearby piece of land.

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Farming Farming Acre Finance 86

Daily Yonder

JULY 12, 2023

But they receive less than 2% of global climate financing. Photo courtesy of Root Capital) Breeding new varieties of crops is one way farmers are working to mitigate the impacts of a changing climate, he said. Teague added that 95% of the world’s farms are small-scale, but they only receive 2% of climate financing.

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Farming Farming Finance Acre 74

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. After ending his service in 2006, Archipley and his wife established Archi’s Acres , an organic hydroponic farm that supplies basil and other specialty crops to local restaurants and stores. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. It’s a huge talent pool.”

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Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 120

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” She points to Dirt Capital, which works with farmers in financing farmland, including through shared ownership models.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Each farmer has social and economic goals which we consider, and that helps determine what crops they grow or how much of each crop they grow.” Roa emphasized the importance of scaling up their efforts, leading to a comprehensive review of finances, staff, and program tactics.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Food 115

World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 22, 2023

NewLeaf Symbiotics, global leader and pioneer of pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs), announces the fully funded close of its series D financing round, totalling $45 million. NewLeaf gained tremendous growth over the past three years with its PPFM technology, significantly increasing in product shipments for corn and soy acres.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Windbreaks involve planting trees along edges of fields to keep soil in place, enhance crop production and protect motorists on adjacent roadways from snowdrifts and fierce winds. Agroforestry is a sustainable land management approach that can be integrated into existing traditional crop and livestock systems.

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Farming Farming Crop Production 108

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

But the reliance on utility-scale solar, which requires hundreds to even thousands of acres of land for panel installations, has sparked questions regarding the magnitude of land use requirements. You can think of community solar as a multi-benefit “cover crop” for land that might otherwise go unused.

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Ruralism Acre Technology Crop 99

Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether it’s been in your family for generations or you’re blazing your own path of ownership, AgAmerica is leveling up the way rural land financing is done to provide capital and counsel that keeps farmland in the hands of American families for generations to come. What happens if I experience financial hardship? This can vary by lender.

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Finance Farming Farming Ruralism 52

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. I have always been the nerd with my head in the soil trying to learn more,” she explains.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family. Could you stack multiple enterprises on the same acre? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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Ranching Farming Ruralism Farming 95

Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Earlier this year, the Carbon Harvest partners wrapped up an agroforestry pilot program that helped four local farms, including Good Wheel, integrate trees with their crops and livestock.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Existing investors Entrée Capital, Jesselson, and Peregrine Ventures also participated in the financing round. ” Bluewhite’s autonomous solution can be applied across all permanent crop types, including nuts, berries, apples, grapes, hops, stone fruit, and more. .” Source: PRNewswire.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. According to the authors, there are three ways to eliminate cover crops: 1) herbicides, 2) rolling and crimping, and 3) tillage.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to investigate the climate change mitigation potential of switchgrass cropping systems. Improve Rural Prosperity: This priority drives us to improve the prosperity of low-income and under-served farmers by improving their access to inputs, knowledge, finance and markets.

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Finance Supply Chain biotechnology Agriculture 40

Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But, considering cropland values climbed more than 30 percent from 2021 to 2023 alone, investment cost can be prohibitive without the right financing. Cash Rental and Crop Share – Generating income by renting your land to other farmers for planting. In the past three years, cropland value increased by $1,300 per acre.

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Farmland Farming Farming Finance 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

ATTRA

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this episode of Voices from the Field , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Felicia Bell talks with beginning farmer Violet Keys about the journey that took her from a career in the military to beginning Synergy in the Garden, a 6-acre urban agriculture operation in Jackson, Mississippi.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. The History of US Seed Breeding For most of the history of domesticated crops, those who grew crops saved seeds from one growing season to the next.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 96

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. He credits the inspiration and mentorship of his uncle, Doug Wray, who was an experienced rotational grazer, and had been experimenting with multi-species annual cropping just prior to Tim’s return to the farm.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

National Young Farmers Coalition

MARCH 11, 2025

As a young farmer, Ive had to fight every step of the way to secure land, financing, and reliable insurance, said Rowe in his prepared testimony. Rowe operates Rowe Organic Farms , a 30-acre farm in Albany, GA, where he cultivates organic peanuts, watermelons, sunflowers, and hemp. Congress has an opportunity to change that.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2023, crop insurance protected more than 540.6 million acres of farm and ranchland across the country. Added coverage for America’s ranchers and improvements for specialty crop growers through Whole Farm Revenue Protection and other crop-specific insurance products account for much of the additional acreage.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Crop Commodity Prices Corn This year, corn had the seventh-lowest yield in 35 years , which places it in the 20th percentile. Vegetables and Melons Vegetables and melons are one of the few crops expected to experience an increase in cash receipts in 2023. Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre.

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