AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Last Acre Act would help expand high-speed internet access across eligible farmland, ranchland and farm sites. At least 15% of farms and ranches have no access to the internet today.

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Farmland Ranching Acre Farming 105

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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Farming Farming Ranching Food 122

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Back in 2018, we saw the impacts of these events directly when several members of our team stayed with a South Georgia multigenerational farm owner and his family in Camilla, Georgia, through Hurricane Michael. Visit our page to explore resources designed to help your farm or ranch rebuild, recover, and remain resilient.

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Acre Ranching Livestock Farming 105

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. We look forward to working with you to bring a bipartisan 2024 farm bill to fruition. Thank you for considering our request.

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Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For three generations, Fanny Brewer’s family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota’s Ziebach County. million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre Simultaneously, the U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 143

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are. Later, he received financial assistance from Niman Ranch’s grant program as well as U.S.

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Ranching Family Farming Farming Farming 106

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. The farm also teaches local students about agriculture and conservation—and donates much of the fruits and vegetables it grows to people in need.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

Visitors to Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island just outside of Portland, Oregon last October didn’t encounter a corn maze but rather a kid’s maze cut through a field of sorghum. It’s easier on the soil, explains Kat Topaz, who owns the farm along with Jim Abeles. We call ourselves an ‘experience farm,’” says Topaz.

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Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 120

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 134

DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

agriculture and ranching was released in February. Thirty-eight percent of farms reported using no-till practices in 2022, which is 1.1% Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. million acres annually.

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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

AgriLife Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 23, 2024 Corn prices are down, and acres in Texas and across the U.S. Read More → The post Corn crop conditions improve as acres and prices decline appeared first on AgriLife Today. Mark Welch, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension grain marketing economist in the Texas.

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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 140

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

farms and ranches. million farms and ranches (down 7% from 2017) with an average size of 463 acres (up 5%) on 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%). million farms and ranches (down 7% from 2017) with an average size of 463 acres (up 5%) on 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%).

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CalCAN

AUGUST 24, 2023

55 miles south of San Francisco along Highway 1 lies Pie Ranch. Founded in 2002 by Nancy Vail, Jered Lawson, and Karen Heisler with a vision to create a regenerative farming and food education center.

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Ranching Agriculture Agriculture Acre 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. Farming turned out to be really healing,” says Karen, allowing her husband to decompress outdoors through physically demanding but rewarding challenges. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. Fortunately, the couple had invested in a 2.5-acre

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Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 117

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In remarks made on February 13 while releasing the new Census data, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack directed attention to the loss of farmland and farms since the 2017 Census saying: “ What you find is in 2017 there were 2 million farmers, today the survey report shows we have 1.9 million, 142,000 fewer farms in 5 years.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 111

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Farm and Ranch Enterprise has installed an in-conduit hydropower system that integrates sustainable energy production with advanced center-pivot irrigation technology across its 7,700 acres of irrigated farmland. The energy is used to power onsite farming operations.

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Ranching Farming Farming Farmland 40

Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

The fire started on August 16th in the hills above their farm. The fire had to travel downhill to get to their farm. There ended up being 5-6 days of active fire fighting on/near their farm property and six weeks of putting out spot fires. Tragically, in mid-August 2020 they were affected by the CZU Complex wildfire.

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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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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Steven and Alaina Imhoff knew they wanted to expand their hog farming at Triple Creek Farms in southeast Iowa. In 2019, they connected with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs.

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Farming Farming Ranching Farmland 72

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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Plantation Pasture Ranching Acre 109

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, the US has lost both farms and farmland, according to the latest data from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture , released this week. The US is now home to about 880 million acres of farmland, down from 900 million at the time of the last census in 2017. million farms. It doesn’t have to be.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Farming 111

ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

By Cody Brown and Darron Gaus , NCAT Agriculture Specialists Carbon Farm Planning is a rewarding process for producers and conservation planners, as we “dig deep” and find all the potential carbon sinks and soil health practices that can be implemented across the landscape. Image: COMET-Farm and COMET-Planner presentation slide.

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Greenhouse Ranching Processing Acre 98

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. Community land trusts retain ownership of the property while the farmer pays a tenancy back to the trust to farm the land.

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Farmland Acre Real Estate Ranching 106

National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Census, conducted every five years, is a count of our nation’s farms and ranches and the people who run them, and provides a new outlook on the future of farming in the United States. However, the farming population is still aging, with farmers 65 and older making up over 40% of total farmers. farmer is now 58.1

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Farmland Agriculture Agriculture Farming 85

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 124

Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Agritourism is any venture on a farm or ranch that’s not directly related to raising and harvesting produce or livestock commercially. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. Some farms find that agritourism even becomes their primary source of income.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 98

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 77

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill , a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). CSP was reauthorized in the 2014 Farm Bill and the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” Healthy soils, boosted by regenerative farming practices , can sequester more carbon from the atmosphere and more effectively store and drain water. Let’s put this in the next Farm Bill!

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. I was really in tune with the movement of the seasons and the farm cycle—and I enjoyed that.” I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. Each week is dedicated to a different farm-business-health topic,” Buckner said. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.”

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Ranching Cattle Agriculture Farming 113

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

I just returned from one of my favorite events, the Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Food Tank is honored to co-host an Educational Summit. I have been fortunate to call Niman Ranch Founding Hog Farmer Paul Willis a friend for many years, and I still get emotional at this event.

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Food Ranching Farming Farming 52

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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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144