Real Agriculture

AUGUST 12, 2024

Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. The equipment chosen for a job can make a substantial difference in how quickly, efficiently, and economically a field gets seeded and fertilized. Read More Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? Read More How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. How Does Federal Crop Insurance Work? The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Water Adaptation In the desert, getting water to crops often requires irrigation. million from EQIP (and $5.6

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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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Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

Planting across Ontario is nearing completion in many regions, but excessive rain continues to stall progress in some areas, leaving farmers to contemplate switching intended corn acres to soybeans. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

A bag of seed corn checks in at 80,000 kernels and typically weighs between 35 and 65 pounds. But the job of producing that seed is very different than growing a commercial corn crop. Read More A bag of seed corn checks in at 80,000 kernels and typically weighs between 35 and 65 pounds. One bag will plant roughly 2.5

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 17, 2023

Grosse Isle-area farmer and long-time seed grower. Grosse Isle-area farmer and long-time seed grower. That’s the basic premise behind a unique arrangement that has come to be known as “Innovation Farms,” just northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Read More

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Specialty canola oil currently makes up approximately 10 percent of canola crop acres. While years ago the choice to go with a specialty oil could mean a yield gap, today, options in the hybrid seed space are plentiful and that yield gap has closed. Specialty canola genetics are up there in performance with regular commodity.

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Agwired

MARCH 5, 2024

ASTA’s Jordan Gregory, Janae Brady, and Katrina Bishop at Commodity Classic Representatives of the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) were at the Commodity Classic last week with member GO Seed to talk about cover crops. “As you look at sustainability practices, seed is a very important part of that solution.”

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Specialty canola oil currently makes up approximately 10 percent of canola crop acres. While years ago the choice to go with a specialty oil could mean a yield gap, today, options in the hybrid seed space are plentiful and that yield gap has closed.

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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. He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The farm safety net, which includes commodity support programs and federal crop insurance, is a fundamental component of any farm bill. These programs primarily benefit a limited number of commodity producers, leaving behind many farmers, including small, beginning, and specialty crop farmers. In 2023, there were 239.7

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. Demand for kava soared during this time, especially in Germany, where Hawaiian strains fetched a premium.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2024, the company, which started in Australia in crops such as barley and canola, is offering its product for use on soybean acres in six states: MN, SD, ND, WI, NE and IA.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Corteva Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Technology November 18, 2024 In advance of its Investor Day, Corteva announced a breakthrough in one of the world’s most important staple crops – wheat – a first-of-its kind, proprietary non-GMO hybrid technology. Wheat is the third largest row crop In North America, grown on more than 60 million acres.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Meanwhile, research and plant breeding efforts are underway to explore and expand its potential as a sustainable low-input, high-value crop that could figure into the future of small farms throughout the eastern U.S. The Canadian NC1 ripens early, with fewer smooth black seeds than other varieties. It’s mystical,” Vargas says.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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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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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Today, the Mattives farm 2,000 acres of certified seed potatoes, a specialized crop that begins in their tissue culture lab, where a single plant is carefully propagated into tens of thousands. Everything we do with our rotation crops is to make our potatoes better, said Grant Mattive.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 4, 2023

On most farms, a crop field is a timestamp that reflects a specific moment in a specific place. With their meticulously selected collection of approximately 1,300 crop varieties, farmers Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh have gathered generations of global agricultural activity on about 250 acres in Chenango County, New York.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey results, published today by the U.S. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4

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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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

Grow vining crops on trellises. Plant low-growing crops like beets, lettuce, and carrots on either side of the trellised crop to further maximize your space. If youre working in an urban space, you probably dont have acres and acres to play with. Here are a few examples.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Bison Ventures led the oversubscribed round with participation from new investor, Cibus Capital, and existing investors Acre Venture Partners, Congruent Ventures, Fall Line Capital, E14 Fund, SNR and Serra Ventures. and Australia. and Australia.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I had to rely on others to eat, and it was really difficult,” says Bista, who is one of six refugee farmers employed by New Leaf Agriculture, a 20-acre organic operation located in Manor, Texas. At age 30, she was forced to seek asylum in Nepal, and for the next 19 years, she was unable to work or grow her own food. “I

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Agwired

MARCH 12, 2025

campaign has returned for the 2025 planting and growing season to promote proper stewardship efforts around the safe usage of crop protection products. This milestone brings the BioLumic proprietary light-based Genetic Expression Trait technology to the global seed industry, enabling new opportunities for enhanced crop performance.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

She is also the co-founder and owner of Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, Bertie County Seeds retail shop, and Quitsna Conniot ancestral gardens with Justin Fix Rahakwhstha Cain, who is Tuscarora (Skaroreh Katenuaka). My tribe has control of two million acres on the books, but really we only have about a million acres accessible to our people.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 9, 2025

The SEEDesign company secured significant support from new and returning investors as it seeks to redefine the seed technology landscape CAMBRIDGE, Mass., The SEEDesign company secured significant support from new and returning investors as it seeks to redefine the seed technology landscape CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and Ghent, Belgium.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Students tend to their kalo crop. Students tend to their kalo crop. Students tend to their kalo crop. However, out of all the things they are doing with the program, Kaitoku hopes that the seed thats planted grows into wisdom, knowledge, and hope for the next generation. Photo by Libby Leonard. Photo by Libby Leonard.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Corteva Agriscience , Syngenta , Bayer Crop Science , Benson Hill , Deloitte , Agrivi , and Digital Green weigh in on the effect of these innovations throughout the agri-food value chain, the evolution of AI applications, and the challenges that lie ahead for the sector. This has resulted in up to 25% yield increase in key markets.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MARCH 10, 2024

Each March, we review corn and soybean crop insurance prices and their budget implications. In 2022, the soybean crop insurance price was $14.33 per bushel at 184 bushels per acre). This year, however, low contribution margins and high fixed costs create a low crop insurance safety net. per bushel, a record high.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon , with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is launching an Untreated Seed Pilot Program that offers funding on a per-acre basis to American growers and producers interested in sourcing and using corn, soybean, and cereal-crop seeds not coated with neonicotinoid insecticides.

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