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).

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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. Pasture-raised eggs can be $3, $5 or $7 a carton. With that refrigerated warehouse space, we could easily source from more farmers, distribute more food and serve more communities.”

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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 137

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 perennial pasture after a high-stock-density graze. Far from it.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

Every morning, Amish farmer Amos Miller, who lives on 75 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA., The state attorney general initiated legal action against the farmer to prevent him from producing or distributing his products. gets up early to milk 43 Jersey cows. Miller pushed back on the basis that his clientele was private.

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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 89

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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Photo courtesy Seven Hills) About $450 million in federal grants has been distributed so far. Como, Mississippi’s Home Place Pastures was among the recipients and received $500,000 to increase cold storage and processing capacity. It’s been a gamechanger,” says owner Marshall Bartlett.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, by increasing the presence of deeper rooted perennials and distributing manure, such practices can increase the overall carbon sequestration of a grazing system. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 97

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

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

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Farming Farming Food Compost 96

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

That year he hosted his first national conference and asked me to do a speech about pastured poultry. Suddenly we were getting calls from around the country: “How do you do this pastured poultry thing?” In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15. Seuss) or an incredible idea (pastured poultry).

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Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 58

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Normally we have been able to distribute 1.5 Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre. Because fruit and nuts tend to be higher priced items when compared to other agricultural products, some farmers theorize demand is just lower this year. The marketing of nuts did not do as well as in other years.

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 120

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 126

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft. SEGREGATED VERSUS INTEGRATED.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 52

National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

I come from a family of farmers: my maternal grandparents farmed more than 25 acres of vegetables from the 1960s to the 1980s, and my paternal grandfather farmed nearly 80 acres of pasture grass from the 1970s to the early 2000s. acres into production for student demonstrations, and teaching the community how to grow food.

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Farming Farming Acre Processing 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

One villager, Awdah Hathaleen, said on social media , “The shepherds now have been completely cut off from their pastures and fields. It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. We called b t,” Dostie remembers.

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Farming Farming Fertilizer Forage 134

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

States then distribute the cash to counties or manage the funds at the state level. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. NRCS offices across the country have been trying to staff up to provide faster distribution of funds and more help for applicants. Albert Johnson Sr.

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Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 84

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

After the government officially declared that the public health emergency was over, the 32 states and territories still distributing emergency benefits—including Washington, D.C., EN: In 1920, Black farmers represented 14 percent of all US farmers and owned about 15 million acres of land, according the USDA’s own figures.

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