Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

Agriculture 126

Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 126

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build. acre plot in central Seattle, where organizers host volunteer days, summer cookouts, and food and gardening classes.

Crop 111

Crop Farmland Acre Food 111

Food Tank

APRIL 1, 2024

Through the One Million Acres for the Future campaign, the Coalition advocates for the next Farm Bill to invest in 1 million acres of land accessible to new farmers. . “The challenges facing the next generation of young farmers are complex, but equitable land access is foundational to all of the solutions proposed in our work.”

Agriculture 124

Agriculture Agriculture Food Supply Chain 124

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.

Plantation 140

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 140

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

Cultivation 91

Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 91

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. In just three years, the 25-year-old entrepreneur, who started off with a seasonal pushcart, has opened two shops and now distributes pints to about 60 grocery stores in Oregon and Washington.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 131

DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields. Consider this scenario. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated gases).

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. They experimented with making bourbon for years before they could actually sell it or distribute it.

Ranching 140

Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. Today Peebles has expanded to 2,000 acres, all organic. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 70

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

acre organic urban farm in the impoverished Englewood community on Chicago’s South Side, was destined for marketplaces within the city’s more affluent communities. Despite the new distribution strategy, St. When COVID happened, we were able to distribute almost 100 percent of it in Englewood.” But when Janelle St.

Food 99

Food Farming Farming Distribution 99

Modern Farmer

JULY 7, 2023

Then, with her children in tow, Kitchen loaded up a little red wagon and distributed them at a long-term care facility. “In She lived on a one-acre homestead in a small town about halfway between Seattle and Bellingham, Washington, and dedicated herself to caring for her land.

Cultivation 97

Cultivation Acre Seeding Farming 97

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Over two centuries, hundreds of thousands of acres were cleared to establish rice plantations, shaping the Southern economy and landscape.

Plantation 85

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 85

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.”

Farming 118

Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 118

Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Drone technology company, DJI Agriculture has designed a new spraying drone, Agras T30 to cater to the needs of modern farming The technology displays a wide range of features including: 16 sprinklers offering full coverage: The Agras T30 is equipped with 16 sprinklers that provide a 9-metre spray width, allowing it to cover up to 40 acres/hour.

Pesticide 59

Pesticide Technology Distribution Acre 59

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) released a report titled Unsustainable: State of the Farm Safety Net , which features a comprehensive analysis of the accessibility and concentration of public dollars distributed through crop insurance premium subsidies, commodity programs, and ad-hoc disaster assistance.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Distribution Acre 40

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore farms 800 acres, half of them are his, the other 400 acres are rented from two different landlords. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage. On his silage acres, he is testing herbal leys which do not need to be fertilised. When Moore took over the farm 12 years ago, much of the farm infrastructure was old.

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Pasture Cattle Farming Farming 114

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

This round of awards is the first-time funds have been distributed through the LCM program.

Marketing 96

Marketing Farmland Distribution Real Estate 96

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The farm is three acres and is the home to their community garden network and the main production site for their mobile market program. “We These members also help distribute food through the Mobile Market. ShreveCorps members plant and maintain the crops within both the community garden network and urban farm.

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Food Marketing Farming Farming 115

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Jason Brown is testing basalt powder on his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Prevost tested olivine on his land last spring.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 138

Food Tank

AUGUST 15, 2024

The inspiration for Urban American Farmer came about eight years ago when Bates began growing food on a quarter acre and selling produce to restaurants. She sees her active engagement as a way of aiding in the distribution of resources and helping others achieve their food system goals.

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Food Compost Farming Farming 107

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Darrel Franson, a Missouri rancher who remembers the endophyte-free fescue debacle, nevertheless decided to take the risk, converting his 126 acres to friendly fescue.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 108

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

In response, the federal government has committed nearly $5 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to thinning forests on about 50 million Western acres over the next 10 years. We do hundreds to thousands of acres of fire mitigation a year,” Ravage said. He hopes to show that fungi can do it better.

Compost 97

Compost Acre Biofuel Seeding 97

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies. California’s almond industry spreads over 1.4 In 2018, California had 1.1 has averaged 2.67

Orchard 99

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 99

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agroecology Yield Food Farming 85

Tillable

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Disproportionate Subsidy Distribution In the last five years, 80% of U.S. How CamoAg Helps: Our platform gives you a detailed view of subsidy distribution, allowing you to identify and target regions or producers benefiting most from subsidies. subsidies were awarded to only 18% of producers.

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Marketing Agriculture Agriculture Distribution 52

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

An application of GE bacteria could release 3 trillion genetically modified organisms every half an acre that’s about how many GE corn plants there are in the entire U.S. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. And BASF sells a 2.0

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

Tillable

MAY 9, 2023

Calculate Price by Acre Type See how to use the Comp Tool price per acreage type breakdown feature. This feature enables users to enter per acre and total values for each acre type, to assign values for acres that might not be as valuable and to get a more accurate final market value opinion on the land.

Acre 40

Acre Distribution Farming Farming 40

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Farming 117

Farming Farming Pasture Acre 117

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. She aims to do more of that in the coming years, with a focus on policy work and storytelling.

Food 142

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 142

Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, assume the producer owns 500 acres of land outright and receives cash rent income of $300 per acre, net of real estate taxes, maintenance, etc. Traditional plan contributions are deductible when made, taxable when distributed. This generates $150,000 of income a year, before income taxes or a return of 2.5%

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Distribution Acre Yield 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 131

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 86

Agricultural Economics Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Blueberries have the most acreage, with more than 150,000 acres reported in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Cranberry acreage ranks third, behind strawberries, at nearly 44,000 acres in 2017. Finally, Figure 4 shows the distribution of U.S. Furthermore, blueberry acreage has been trending higher. Acreage of Select Berries.

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Production Acre Agriculture Agriculture 62

NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

However, reforestation projects account for just 4.15% of the forest acres on these registries. In addition, it states that “EPA expects to provide each applicant with flexibility to invest in additional project categories.” Reforestation projects: Private sector demand for forest carbon credits is strong.

Greenhouse 130

Greenhouse Forestry Finance Supply Chain 130

Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

GoFarm’s incubator farmer program gives beginning farmers access to a quarter acre of land for the two-year duration of the program. With that refrigerated warehouse space, we could easily source from more farmers, distribute more food and serve more communities.”

Food 117

Food Marketing Farming Farming 117

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. She has also learned to mix and amend soil and place irrigation pipes in a way that maximizes water distribution.

Crop 105

Crop Cultivation Textiles Farming 105

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies. California’s almond industry spreads over 1.4 In 2018, California had 1.1 has averaged 2.67

Harvester 86

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Orchard 86