Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass. Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season,… Read More

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 163

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Most of the data refer to industrial crops like corn and soybeans: feed for animals, fuel for automobiles. We should not be growing food crops to produce automobile fuel.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Three out of every 10 acres have been combined so far this fall.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Crop 119

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 172

AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

According to USDA’s crop progress report, 93% of corn has been harvested so far – an increase 5% from this time last week.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 100

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. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B

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Farming Farming Farmland Poultry 249

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 27, 2023

From drought to an October hailstorm, producers discuss how the weather has wreaked havoc on their cotton crop. "I I just wish we could have harvested what we worked so hard to grow.”

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Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 111

AgWeb Farm Journal

DECEMBER 11, 2023

West Texas is the largest cotton production area in the country, but after battling drought and heat, area farmers say the dryland crop is a failure, and the irrigated acres are only yielding half of normal.

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Crop Acre Harvesting Harvest 114

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cotton Spin: While the abandonment rate remained the same, USDA cut yield per harvested acre across nine states in their September WASDE report. Learn more, plus other adjustments reflected in this week's report.

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Crop Acre Yield Harvesting 105

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. 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

Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. Planting and Harvesting Potatoes are typically planted in spring once soil temperatures reach 10°C (50°F), a benchmark for promoting uniform sprouting and robust early growth. The effects of soil type on harvest include: 1.

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Cultivation Harvesting Harvest Harvester 81

Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. The environmental restoration of each farm is only one part of our program. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 109

Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

planted nearly 50 million acres of wheat for the 2023 harvest, the largest acreage since 2016. That year’s winter wheat crop, which accounted for an average of 73% of total wheat acres, was the first crop planted after the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent wheat prices soaring. million acres.

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Acre Crop Grain Harvest 70

Western FarmPress

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Texas Coastal Bend producer yielded a career-best, harvesting more than 10,000 pounds to the acre. Planters Co-op handled 6.4 million bushels, over a million more than normal. The yields were astronomical."

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Crop Yield Acre Harvesting 98

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

Agricultural Economics Insights

APRIL 7, 2024

This week, we are reviewing and reviewing a two-part post from this year ( Global Acreage Higher Again in 2023 , Part II: The Oilseed Surge ) World Harvested Acres 2.458 billion crop acres were harvested in 2023, a new record high (Figure 1). Global crop acreage is 97.9m Data Source: USDA FAS, AEI.ag

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Crop Acre Harvest Harvester 67

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

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Aquaculture 138

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 91

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Yet with California’s agricultural hub dominated by large-scale farms and commodity crops, he’s found a comfortable niche at his local farmers market. Microgreens at Kupu Place.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 96

ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

state to complete soybean harvest in 2023. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5. However, the quality of the crop remained good. However, the quality of the crop remained good. Read more on soybean harvest in Louisiana here.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Forestry 59

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. Results from several locations in Iowa (Dahlke, 2019).

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ProAg

JULY 26, 2023

Sunflower acres have decreased 20% this year compared to 2022 at 1.35 million acres. Harvested areas are also expected to decrease by 20% to 1.29 million acres. Oil-type sunflower acres are down 24% from last year, while non-oil varieties are estimated at 164,000, up 15% from last year.

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Acre Harvest Harvester Harvesting 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

The solar farm Alliant Energy completed construction on the 10-acre Alliant Energy Solar Farm on the ISU research farms near Ames, Iowa in the fall of 2023. The remainder of the crops will be planted in the spring. Traditional Iowa crops such as corn and soybeans were avoided due to the need for large equipment and the small acreage.

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Farm QA

AUGUST 14, 2023

The sugarbeet harvests in Minnesota and North Dakota are gearing up to begin around August 15th, weather permitting. This year, the crop saw an earlier planting compared to the previous year, averaging several weeks ahead. Furthermore, the majority of the crop acres are showcasing good to excellent plant populations.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 52

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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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 105

ProAg

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Almost all of Iowa’s corn and soybeans have been harvested as of the latest and final USDA crop update for 2023. Harvest for both crops concluded about a week ahead of the five-year average, primarily due to late-summer heat and drought conditions. Read more on Iowa harvest conditions and yields here.

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 52

ProAg

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Spring wheat harvest is raising some eyebrows. Even after a litany of poor weather circumstances, many farmers report being pleasantly surprised at how well the crop has turned out. Spring wheat yields in North Dakota have been reported to be anywhere from 35 to 95 bushels per acre with as little as 5 miles between fields.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 52

ProAg

OCTOBER 4, 2023

USDA’s latest crop progress report shows nearly a quarter of all corn and soybeans have been harvested in the U.S. Both crops show a 23% progress rate, compared to 19% and 20% last week, respectively. North Carolina, Texas and Tennessee lead the way in corn acres while Louisiana and Mississippi are ahead for soybeans.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Yield 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

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. It is a rapidly growing category.”

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 133

Agricultural Economics Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

harvested an estimated 340,000 acres of sweet corn – or just 0.5% of the area harvested for feed grain corn. Figure 1 shows the USDA’s NASS acreage estimates since 2016, which capture a notable decline of 138,000 acres, or 29%. Sweet Corn Acres, 2016-2022. In Alaska, 14 farms raised a total of three acres.

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Acre Processing Distribution Harvest 98

ProAg

AUGUST 22, 2024

As price declines continue for corn and soybeans, return expectations are coming into focus and are expected to also be lower for the 2024 crop year. This will likely increase payments to farmers participating in crop insurance and commodity programs. SCO can only be issued on acres enrolled in the PLC commodity program.

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Yield Acre Crop Harvest 105

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

ProAg

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now offering crop insurance for sesame producers nationwide. Beginning in the 2024 crop year, the USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is expanding the Actual Production History (APH) plan to allow producers to request written agreements anywhere sesame or a similar crop has been grown successfully.

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Crop Acre Grain Harvest 59

Agricultural Economics Insights

JULY 3, 2023

Acreage In 2022, the USDA estimated that 93,200 acres of watermelon were harvested in the U.S. Watermelon Acres Harvested, 2016-2022. Perhaps the most surprising state on the list is Indiana, at 6,900 acres, ahead of Arizona and South Carolina. Watermelon Acres Harvested, 2022. Data Source: USDA NASS.

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Acre Harvest Harvester Harvesting 98

Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

Instead, it’s brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables that were harvested less than 25 miles away. Photography courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. About three years ago, the southern California food bank added something novel to its system: a 40-acre farm. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 113