UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Image 3: The global distribution of soil acidity and alkalinity is largely related to annual rainfall and its excess over evapotranspiration. Except for the frozen artic regions, the distribution of acid soils (red areas on the map) corresponds quite closely to the distribution of forest vegetation. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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Fertilizer Distribution Processing Pasture 90

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For many seasons, most of the kale, chard, tomatoes, beets, napa cabbage, carrots, and collard greens harvested by Growing Home , a 1.5-acre 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.

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Food Farming Farming Distribution 125

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

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Harvester Harvesting Harvest Orchard 93

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the produce section of the IGA grocery store in Saint-Laurent, Quebec , a TV monitor shows customers, in real time, the roof of the store and farmers harvesting cucumbers that within an hour will be on store shelves. Retail distribution systems are designed to deliver products in as few trips as possible.

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Food Greenhouse Supply Chain Harvester 120

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.

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Crop Farmland Acre Food 126

Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization. Now, the couple are in the process of expanding to 5 acres.

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Farming Farming Acre Marketing 144

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA.

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Food Acre Greenhouse Farming 124

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.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

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. Sakari Farms offers a program that teaches youth how to grow and harvest traditional foods.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

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). Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Yield Production Harvester Harvest 143

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 106

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 140

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.

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Crop Cultivation Textiles Farming 123

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley.

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Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 106

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Majenty hopes that these gardens will eventually cover more of the 1-million-acre reservation to help feed its approximately 1,400 residents. Part of our responsibility is putting food away for the people, which is what we do with half our harvests each year.”

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Food Harvester Harvest Harvesting 145

Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

Every morning, Amish farmer Amos Miller, who lives on 75 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA., His sons are the horsemen of the family, raising standardbreds for transportation and brawny Belgians for mowing and harvesting hay. gets up early to milk 43 Jersey cows. Miller pushed back on the basis that his clientele was private.

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Production Food Farming Farming 117

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry now lives alongside his cousin in Richmond, Kentucky, on the 30-acre Ballew Farm, named after his great uncle Atrus, who died at age 100. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm.

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Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 138

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%

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Real Estate Distribution Acre Yield 52

World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The company expects to have a distribution agreement in place in Argentina in 2024. “To With help from mycorrhiza, the Queen of Biologicals™, farmers everywhere can now regenerate their soil, sequester carbon, and ensure a productive and sustainable harvest.”. Shu Yang, country manager for Groundwork BioAg – China.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Distribution 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. Because she doesn’t have at least five acres, her application to join the federal Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program – which would have enabled her to accept food vouchers from low-income seniors – was denied four times. in June 2024.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 121

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest.

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvester 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. ZFP then distributes those funds, via grants, to farmers for regenerative farming projects. “As We had been at $2.50

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Farming Farming Food Compost 138

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 142

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. And guess what it replaces?

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Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 95

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. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. Far from it.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Burger, who owns Bethel Springs Farm on 3 acres in Rickreall, Oregon with her husband, grows copious amounts of Rockwell beans, along with a host of other vegetables most likely to make an appearance in a winter soup. Much of what you’re distributing in the winter can be [sold] in larger quantities for consumers to store,” Hachmyer says. “As

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

Full Circle Healing Farm is a two acre vegetable, herb, and flower farm in Mequon. The farm is located on the Fondy Farm at the Mequon Nature Preserve , a 40 acre incubator farm that has the mission of providing affordable, long-term leases to historically underserved producers. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold.

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Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

hectares (less than 2 acres), and just over 40% of the population of around 3 million, work in agriculture – Albania’s primary economic sector. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. Today, the average holding is 1.4

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. Sankofa spans 3.5 John Boyd, Jr. & & the National Black Farmers Association John Boyd, Jr.

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Food Agroecology Acre Agriculture 52

ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

By Luz Ballesteros Gonzalez, NCAT Agriculture Specialist The Hub of Prosperity is an urban 5-acre farm managed by sustainable agriculture students like me at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. Water conservation in an area as hot and dry as the Rio Grande Valley can be tough, especially when it comes to irrigation.

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Agroecology Farming Farming Distribution 40

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 52

Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Two people bend over the pallets, using scissors to harvest delicate sprouts of microgreens. In an underground greenhouse, Raycen Raines (right) helps harvest microgreens that are donated to the community. This is an underground greenhouse, or walipini, and the harvesters are members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Credit: Dawn E.

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Greenhouse Food Construction Harvester 52

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes. We wanted to take what we were learning about [soil health] and push it further,” says Tim.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. 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.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52