Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays. Understanding Data-Driven Farming Farming today is more than just relying on instinct or what was done in the past. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. What were doing [at Jubilee Justice] is reclaiming rice and rice farming as our foodways, as our invention, as our birthrightand in that is nothing but the spirit of the ancestors.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) Dry farming has been a Hopi tradition for several millennia. But later I saw the wisdom in it.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9 million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Average farm income: $79,790. Farms with sales of $50,000 or less: 1.4 million (74% of farms); they sell 2%.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 35,000 community members who live closest to the sea are largely farmworkers and migrants who work in the booming farming regions to the north and south. And, as the increasingly salty sea recedes, tens of thousands more acres of playa will be exposedas will decades of pesticides already trapped in the sediments from past farm runoff.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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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. Turnips from Three Part Harmony Farm (left). Unfortunately, the scenario is a common one.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

However, urban farming doesnt come without its challenges. Turning to creative urban farming ideas can help boost your production and profits. Grow Vertically Growing vertically allows for bigger harvests in compact gardening spaces. If youre working in an urban space, you probably dont have acres and acres to play with.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Our food & farming reviews of 2025 are here what’s been cropping up this past year and worth watching? One Last Farm Director: Nikki Dodd Where to watch: Details of upcoming screenings will be available here. One Last Farm is the story of Yew Tree Farm the last working farm in Bristol, England.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Chekeita Strong, a former youth staff member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, sits by the bayou at the farm in New Orleans. But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Photography by Minh Ha/Verite News.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. The environmental restoration of each farm is only one part of our program.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. When people talk about crop diversity, they may be referring to one of a few different farming practices. Farmers plant corn one year and soybeans the following year.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As recognition grows, so have opportunities for small-scale farming initiatives and environmental restoration.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. Dry farming has been a Hopi tradition for several millennia.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

At Argus Farm Stop, the shelves are full of locally raised vegetables and fruit, herbs, beef, chicken, fish, and more. Beets from one local farm snuggle up against sunchokes from another, across eggs from yet another. Argus represents an emerging business model, the farm stop, which connects consumers and farmers in a local food web.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Many people don't realize that roughly 60 percent of all farm income in Europe is a government subsidy, and a significant chunk of that is for "environmental benefits." Although Switzerland is not a member of the EU, it is roughly the same, with up to 67 percent of farm income in the form of a subsidy. In the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

When farmer Kamal Bell first established a beekeeping operation at Sankofa Farms in North Carolina, his son Akeem was four years old and scared of bees. But with his fathers coachingand the help of a protective beekeeping suitAkeem now loves tending the hives and is now central to the farms beekeeping effort.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s been said high-yielding corn needs 25" of moisture per acre per year. In 2023, when Mother Nature didn't cooperate, management strategies to retain moisture coupled with new traits made a difference at harvest.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

About 5 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, a vast swath of giant kelp— Macrocystis pyriferia , which can grow nearly 3 feet per day—sways just below the surface of one of the world’s first open-ocean seaweed farms. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed industry.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Though San Diego is home to more small farms than any county in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And over the last year, we’ve covered farming from many angles, from threats to farms and farmworkers—including from the herbicide paraquat, PFAS forever chemicals, and drought-induced air pollution—to ways farmers are improving their soil health and reducing their carbon footprints. Farm Credit Can Make or Break Farms.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

Herlinda Huipe and her husband Carmelo Rojas operate Tierra HR Organic Farm on California’s Central Coast. It’s small, so they both still work part time on larger farms, primarily picking strawberries. Brown also learned that among the 121 alumni farmers who responded to a survey, 77 are still operating a farm business.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. When people talk about crop diversity, they may be referring to one of a few different farming practices. Farmers plant corn one year and soybeans the following year.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

My wife was the Utah ‘Farm Mom of the Year.’ The Arid West (Illustration by Nhatt Nichols) The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment Utah Tries a New Water Strategy In Corinne, Utah, where his family has farmed for 125 years, Ferry, who is 46, raises cows, corn, and alfalfa.

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. A farm in La Pedregosa, Panama after transitioning to agroecology practices with SHI.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

Red Hen Turf Farm is one way! I had the opportunity to ride along with Max Niespodziany, Senior Financial Officer with Farm Credit Mid-America, as he delivered a patronage check to Red Hen Turf Farm. It was my first time on a turf farm! Red Hen Turf Farm Max and I met up with Gordon Millar, the owner of Red Hen Turf Farm.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

They are destined for greatness in the form of chocolate bars, dried beans and tea at Lavaloha Chocolate Farm in Hilo. The other 60 percent is produced across seven farms four owned and three managed by Puna Chocolate Co. Harvesting is done by hand because appropriate equipment isnt available on the market. And we grow a lot.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you tried to call Owl’s Head Blueberry Farm in Richmond, Vermont, this summer, you might have reached an automated voicemail announcing that the evening’s live music had been rescheduled for later in the week and the U-pick was closed due to thunderstorms. percent of farms received income from agritourism activities.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As the sun beats down from a cloudless morning sky across Horn Farm in York, Pennsylvania, Dick Bono ambles among his pawpaw trees, admiring their pale green fruits like a proud parent. Now, Horn Farm Center runs the show. In late July, the pawpaws are fist-sized and hard as a rock, still two months shy of being full-grown and ripe.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

They also provide habitats for roughly half of endangered species, from cranes to crocodiles, and 75% of harvested fish and shellfish. million acres of wetlands in the Upper Midwest prevent almost $23 billion in flood damage to residential properties every year, amounting to an estimated $323 billion to $754 billion in long-term savings.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.

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