Ohio State University

MARCH 18, 2024

The new 2022 Census of Agriculture data shows the number of farms in Ohio declined by 2.3% and in land in farms declined by 6.4% One number that is concerning to agricultural stakeholders in Ohio is the loss of 931,089 acres in land in farms in Ohio in the last twenty years. between 2002 and 2022. References: A.L.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Pasture 118

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 121

AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 According to U.S.

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Cattle Pasture Livestock Acre 103

Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. They lived with friends in a number of different farm houses outside of Madison. When they purchased the farm, the front 40 acres were planted in corn.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 98

Tillable

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Streamline Farm Management with Automated Reminders, Document Storage and More. From automated reminders and electronic signatures to advanced leasing options and document storage, we’re making it easier than ever to manage all aspects of your farming operations in one place. Ready to change how you manage farms?

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Farming Farming Acre Pasture 52

Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My

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Farming Farming Ranching Acre 128

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Holden Farm Dairy is one such unit.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Supply Chain 128

Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. Join us for the awards ceremony on Feb 28 as part of this year’s California Small Farm Conference. Janet ran the farm for 24 years until her recent retirement. Learn more here.

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Farming Farming Marketing Food 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 92

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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Farming Farming Technology Acre 130

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. These farms hold, on average, around 2,300 cows.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 125

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. Siewicki started Vital Mission Farm with the hopes of helping to create a more sustainable food industry. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 121

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. Around 2018, Prusia received a second federal loan, this time from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), specifically geared toward women and minority producers. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Farming Farming Pasture Acre 111

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze. The fire burned right around them,” says the 73-year old rancher and owner of Diamond B Ranch, noting the intact areas—some as big as a quarter acre. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 109

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As part of a new, two-part series, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets with upland farmers in northeast England who explain why the shift to the new farm payments scheme – the Sustainable Farming Incentive – poses an existential threat for many upland farmers. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage.

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Pasture Cattle Farming Farming 115

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. In this series of articles, I will walk through how we are implementing the Six Principles of Soil Health on our beef and hay farm and how those principles provide the pathway for our regenerative farming journey.

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Pasture Acre Farming Farming 95

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 113

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms.

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Farming Farming Crop Production 87

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 105

Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

On September 19th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers held a field day at Vitis and Ovis farm in Capay Valley, CA. Gisèle Herren of Vitis and Ovis Farm alongside their flock of grazing ducks. Hans Herren showing attendees an on-farm device as he discussed their experience in making compost tea.

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Orchard Farming Farming Construction 52

Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. Then he asks: “I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?” The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.”

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Farmland Ruralism Acre Real Estate 105

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

For others, however, the Welsh countryside is a stark reminder of the damage that humans have wreaked upon the land through intensive farming and industry. Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa. Johnson laughs.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 106

Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Greenhouse Pasture Crop Arable Land 98

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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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 99

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. system—a network of 10 campuses and five medical centers—committed to supporting regenerative farming as part of U.C. Davis Med Center.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 116

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. Table to Farm: Can Restaurants Serve Climate Education? These restaurants try to tackle them all.

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Farming Farming Food Compost 89

ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move. Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles. This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 114

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year.

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 97

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. Goodness knows, I tried.

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Harvesting Harvester Harvest Farmland 63

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farm real estate will likely become a nearly $3.5 percent of total farm sector assets. farm sector, real estate accounts for $4 of every $5 in assets. That is what makes it such an important indicator of a farm’s resilience. In 2023, farm real estate value rose $280 per acre to an average of $4,080.

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As negotiations around the next farm bill continue, farmers and hundreds of stakeholders want to make sure that funding for climate-friendly practices is protected and remains in conservation programs with a climate focus. Conservation buffer in bloom at Vilicus Farms. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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Pasture Crop Farming Farming 117

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 70

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

I’m sure it was well intentioned, but the truth is that introducing this tax may make it even more difficult for farming to move from being part of the problem (which it currently absolutely is) to being part of the solution. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 112

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. If it weren’t for the signposts, first time visitors to the farm shop and butchers might well miss the entrance.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52