Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

No one likes snow in October, but it’s especially unwelcome when there is still crop in the field. For Manitobans, it looks more like December than November 1 out there, but at least harvest is done. For Ontario, however, so many thousands of acres of corn are now very wet and covered in snow, and. Read More

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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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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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

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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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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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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans. The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph.

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Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 272

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ProAg

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Concerns have also been raised about the requirement to pay crop insurance premiums timely to avoid accrual of interest. The post EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR CROP AND/OR LIVESTOCK DAMAGED BY HURRICANE MILTON appeared first on ProAg. Please click the following link to read the bulletin in full detail: [link].

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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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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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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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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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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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ProAg

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As a result, the Risk Management Agency (RMA) has put emergency procedures in place to streamline certain determinations to help accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in the impacted areas. As a result, MGR-24-006.1

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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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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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ProAg

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As the March 15 crop insurance deadline comes into view, growers will be finalizing insurance decisions. But he says there should still be some favorable crop insurance guarantees again this year at reasonable premium costs. Read more on crop insurance, Spring prices and upcoming deadlines here. for corn and $11.75

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ProAg

AUGUST 15, 2023

USDA released its first corn and soybean yield estimates on August 11, estimating a corn harvest of 175.1 bushels per acre, just two bushels less than the Digital Yield Tour. bushels per acre. The post DTN and USDA Crop Data Suggests Average Yields appeared first on ProAg. How do they compare with USDA data?

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Yield Crop Acre Harvester 52

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

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ProAg

AUGUST 16, 2023

In 2022, there were a total of 4 million prevented planting acres in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation is holding 14 listening sessions across the U.S. The post Fargo PP Listening Session Reveals Crop Insurance Opportunities appeared first on ProAg.

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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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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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is imperative that the next farm bill strengthen the farm safety net by helping farmers to access crop insurance coverage, which is becoming increasingly important amidst worsening droughts, floods, frosts, and other storms or causes for loss. Our first post focused on local and regional market access can be found here.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2024

There are about 85,000 acres of potatoes on Prince Edward Island and every year an increasing number of those acres are planted to winter wheat after potatoes are harvested in September and October.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What if there was a way to boost the number of acres harvested in a day by 20 to 50 per cent while reducing fuel consumption by a similar amount? Read More What if there was a way to boost the number of acres harvested in a day by 20 to 50 per cent while reducing fuel consumption by a similar amount?

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Harvester Harvesting Harvest Acre 317

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Target YOUR Individual Farm with ECO + AIM The Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) is a new area-based federal crop insurance policy option approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) and available from ProAg that extends existing multiple-peril crop insurance (MPCI) coverage.

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