UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2024

While many individuals are content with simply “growing a cover crop” and “reducing tillage” as their contribution to soil health, many experienced soil health practitioners agree that the single most beneficial aspect of the soil health principles is the addition of animals ON the land. are on a per ton of dry matter basis for the forage.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. In fact, from 2008-2016, croplands expanded at a rate of over one million acres per year, with the eastern half of the Dakotas leading the charge. Unfortunately, 69.5% in some spots.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 6, 2025

John Boelts farms about 3,000 acres of vegetables, cotton and forage crops in the desert region.

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Forage Farming Farming Acre 81

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 98

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. Forage backing when precipitation is lacking.

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Forage Pasture Acre Production 98

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Waving fields of wheat once stippled the sunny lands of San Diego County, but higher-value crops supplanted it more than a century ago. On a sparkling spring day in March, Ellis and a crew of volunteers gathered at Rio Del Rey Farm to pull weeds from rows of experimental dry-farmed wheat crops.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. More Acreage Protected With Cover Crops Cover crops are planted to protect the soil and provide nutrients, rather than planted for harvest.

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Pasture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 94

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 125

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

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The use of land for grazing cattle, as opposed to more productive crops or carbon-sequestering forests and prairies, is a key issue for critics of the beef industry—and grass-fed cows require more land than those finished in grain in feedlots. Native grasses and herbs store carbon in the ground and provide forage for cattle.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 136

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 142

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

(Photo credit: Amy Mayer) Bringing Oats Back to American Farms Adding oats to a farm’s rotation can improve soil health and reduce fossil fuels, but the crop has all but disappeared in the U.S. From climate risks to better work-life balance, a small but growing contingent of farmers is giving up summer crops to reap winter’s harvest.

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Farming Farming Ranching Food 140

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The soil quality may not support crops or the land may not have appropriate water drainage. The cost of trying to create viable conditions for growing can be enormous and may not be worth the expense or the crop it might produce. In 2023, farmers enrolled with the DFWT were paid $500 (CDN) per acre.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

Rumors swirled of a potential shortage; almond growers scrambled to ensure they had enough bees to pollinate their valuable crop, reaching out to beekeepers as far away as Florida, striking deals with mom-and-pop operations that kept no more than a few hundred bees. million acres of the Central Valley. Department of Agriculture.

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Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 112

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 143

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. Instead, in 2012, they converted 90 acres of pasture to native warm-season grasses, using their own money and cost-share funding from the U.S.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. PRF insurance offers financial protection when precipitation falls below historical averages, affecting forage availability. What is PRF Insurance?

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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. While the Environmental Working Group has estimated that over 2 million acres of farmland across the United States have been spread with sludge, only Maine and Michigan have done significant testing for chemical contamination of farmland.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Ranchers who lost grazing acres due to drought and wildfire and received assistance through ELRP Phase One will soon receive an additional payment through ELRP Phase Two. In 2022, ranchers continued to experience significant loss of grazing acres due to drought and wildfire. ELRP Phase Two payments are estimated at $115.7

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. . Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 145

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. Meet the Farm Kevin Conard explained that before purchasing the farm, it was managed under continuous corn and was left eroded, compacted, and performing poorly under row crops.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers who have no livestock in their system have a limited number of tools…With the addition of livestock, there is the potential for perennial pastures, perennial hay, annual forages, and grazing crop residues, reducing tillage and increasing the return of carbon to the soil,” Paine tells Food Tank.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. As part of its efforts to foster a new crop of farmers, earlier this y ear, the USDA announced it would be investing $262.5 It’s truly full circle.”

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

Agwired

OCTOBER 26, 2023

5-8, for the new Field Crop Seed Convention, now bigger and better than ever in its new home city of Orlando. The National Wheat Yield Contest announced the achievements of its 24 national winners, hailing from 12 different states, who have achieved an average yield of 144 bushels per acre across all categories.

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Seeding Forage Yield Supply Chain 59

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. They were lucky enough to have crop insurance to cover their losses, but many farmers are not so lucky. Other means of managing weather risk are, like crop insurance premiums, funded by the federal government. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 100

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Harvester 98

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

What are the alternative uses of land that is privately owned and marginal for crop production? The crops that are grown to produce many of these components require a lot of energy and carbon emission. The standing forage biomass is often 300%+ higher. Since lab-grown meats are very new, those studies obviously do not exist.

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 98

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops. With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future.

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 96

The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

I got an “Open Immediately” hand addressed letter today from American Crop Insurance asking me to join 600 other farmers who have signed up for this USDA program. This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least.

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Pasture Compost Forage Acre 74

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

Rumors swirled of a potential shortage; almond growers scrambled to ensure they had enough bees to pollinate their valuable crop, reaching out to beekeepers as far away as Florida, striking deals with mom-and-pop operations that kept no more than a few hundred bees. million acres of the Central Valley. Department of Agriculture.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Orchard 97

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 87

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. And while there are conflicts between grazing and other wildlife species, if you think about housing subdivisions, intensive row crop lands, intensive energy fields—none of those are as compatible.

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Ranching Acre Food Farming 144

Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

Meristem Crop Performance unveiled the next generation of their patented BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY delivery system. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4 million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. cropland, according to the 2017 USDA Census of Ag.

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Technology Supply Chain Acre Agriculture 52

ATTRA

MARCH 7, 2024

Farm Service Agency programs for affected producers include the Livestock Indemnity Program; the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program; the Livestock Forage Disaster Program; and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.

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Livestock Forage Acre Crop 40

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

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil. Absolutely.

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

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. The soil becomes bacteria dominated with bacterial counts far exceeding those of conventional row crop fields. Application at these rates minimizes the risk of “burning” the crop. Far from it.

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