The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. The highlight for me was meeting with 11 young coffee growers. But they are now.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Increasingly, it also means projects that work with very large farms to implement practices such as cover cropping and reduced tillage on tens of thousands of acres of Midwestern corn and soy.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Brooklyn Grange’s massive rooftop farms —which on a few acres produce more than 100,000 pounds of produce for markets, wholesale buyers, CSAs, and the city’s largest convention center each year—were not. It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges,” she said. The community garden is not set up to maximize production.”

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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.” Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. The benefits aren’t just financial, says Tim, but ecological.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Some of the highest impact comes from agroforestry practices.

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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 restore 70 acres of wetlands and create hiking and skiing trails for residents.” “The The group has already spent $4.9 It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. It will be cooperative and governed by residents.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

PepsiCo wants to spread regenerative agricultural practices across seven million acres, while General Mills recently reported that 115,000 acres are currently enrolled in its regenerative programme (the target is 1 million acres by 2030). Interest in this space is certainly “heating up,” says Andy Zynga , CEO at EIT Food.

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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. The food system cant change overnight, but the flow of finance can, says Dharshan Wignarajah, CPIs UK Director.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning. Leo and Judy moved to the Shenandoah Valley region in 1981.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) , Kenya ICIPE conducts research on insects and other arthropods to develop and communicate affordable, accessible solutions to tackle crop pests and disease. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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