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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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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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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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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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 112

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 96

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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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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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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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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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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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 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.;

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. Instead they are growing almonds that are harvested by machine.

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Farming Farming Distribution Acre 52

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.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

On a chilly, overcast morning in early March, as Smith’s farm assistant, Leeza Regensburger, wrestles with an antiquated weed whacker, the most elaborate technology visible on his half-acre field is a sheet of black plastic weed barrier. And when those seeds came up in garden plots across the U.S.,

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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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

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 144

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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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

per acre for the 2024 crop year. million pounds of food and raised $658,606 to help fight hunger and assist in other community service outreach in 2024 through Farm Bureau s Harvest for All program. Department of Agriculture announced that starting on March 19 farmers can apply for the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Dependable Harvest What the EnerWealth model offers rural communities, Othow suggests, is a way to benefit from development while retaining land ownership and agricultural use. acres of a 65-acre property, and the developments she’s seeking to start this year will range from 6 to 30 acres.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

The report also touched on FDA’s final rule on Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water to a science- and risk-based approach that is adaptable to different scales of farming and models. It partners with organizations distributing fresh local produce and frozen meat to individuals and communities with limited food accessibility in the region.

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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

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 Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1

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