Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Maui’s last sugar mill, the 36,000-acre Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, Co. (HC&S), They put up a mansion; they have a horse.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). However, when you divide a large number (i.e., from U.C.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lake Shasta, built in 1945 to meet the needs of six million residents and irrigate a third of California’s farmland is at 33 percent capacity. An acre of almonds requires more water than just about anything except leafy greens. Without getting into the health tradeoffs, let’s think about the ecological tradeoffs. Almond milk.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill.,

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The increased profit of corn has meant more corn is grown which has resulted in a 5% increase in erosion and nutrient leaking into public waters as acres are converted from perennial management or kept in row crops. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year.

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use. Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

million to buy three parcels totaling 222 acres off East Buckeye Road, east of Interstate 39-90. “It It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. “It It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. It will restore 70 acres of wetlands and create hiking and skiing trails for residents.” “The

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I The carbon is being used by the microbes—the ecology of the soil—to do all things: build organic matter, soil structure, increase infiltration, and feed life.” In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

We have 6,400 acres this year that we farm,” LaPointe said, pointing out color-coded land plots on the map. After the land-back policy was adopted in 2012, the tribe gradually began bidding for and winning small leases on farmland. “It We see the ecological benefits and values of producing organically,” LaPointe said. “It

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. And yet, heat is also already the deadliest extreme weather event in the U.S.,

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

25 For our morning Summit, conversations presented by Food Tank and American Farmland Trust will center around the theme “ Climate Resilience through Agriculture.” Monday Summits: REGISTRATION + TICKET INFO Wednesday, Sept. Friday Morning Summit: REGISTER HERE!

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 It is always overdrawn.”

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. Irrigated crops receive higher payouts than dryland crops, while farmers often risk their coverage to engage in some of the most ecologically sound practices. I don’t talk about it too much.”

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

It broke up the people and the ecology of the landscape and parceled it into the British land title system. Ardeo was matched to farmland through the B.C. SD: Yeah, we work with farmers who are doing agri-ecology, who want to do education and train. And now we’re in 2024, we have market failure conditions for agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation , farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers and foreign buyers , pollution and animal welfare issues , as well as soil erosion and the poor treatment of migrant workers.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most respondents were farmers managing small-scale operations between 1-5 acres, and mostly women! We are working on this issue in two ways – first through our Ecological Farming program where we work directly with farmers, conducting on-farm trials to implement and investigate ecological farming practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” A claim repeated in various ways, is that a teaspoonful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.

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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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025. agricultural policy.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Meanwhile, the historic blessing of manure becomes a liability, clogging our streams and poisoning our groundwater because it’s too much in one place for our ecological womb to metabolize.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Deadly clashes on the Great Plains prompted the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , which created the Great Sioux Reservation spanning 60 million acres around the Black Hills. In Montana, for example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes now oversee 18,000 acres where bison roam once again. billion acres across the U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. When he first came to Florida to work as a hydrologist for the water management district in the 1980s, he had few ecological inclinations. But then he began to explore the Everglades.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

The owners say leasing land for the “community solar” garden removes several acres from crop production but provides extra revenue. Every year, goaded by billions worth of federal commodity payments and subsidized crop insurance, farmers plant around 90 million acres of corn—a combined landmass roughly the size of California.

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