UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is exactly what Jay Fuhrer and the team at the Menoken Farm did starting in 2013. Its much more complex than that. Unfortunately, 69.5% in some spots.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. In the FCIP , agents working for private companies sell and service a wide range of insurance policies to farms. of all farms with cropland, up from 25.8%

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As the 119th Congress begins , the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) reauthorization is again on the agenda after numerous extensions. The farm safety net, which includes commodity support programs and federal crop insurance, is a fundamental component of any farm bill. What are ARC and PLC?

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Soil texture, organic matter, and yield potential can vary within a field. A slight difference in soil nutrient level between two spots doesnt always translate to a yield difference, because of factors like root systems and nutrient mobility. A single years yield map, for instance, might show a patch of low yield in one corner.

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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. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Depending on the degree of cotton variety selection error, the 2023 on-farm trials clearly illustrated producers could lose an average of $104 to $133 per acre due to improper cotton variety selection.

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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. are expected to follow as improved overall growing conditions could deliver above average yields, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Mark Welch, Ph.D.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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).

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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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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 30, 2024

Ted and David Kohlleppel, T&D Kohlleppel Farms, yielded a personal best with 5-plus cotton bales to the acre on their LaCoste, Texas, farm. See what made the difference.

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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. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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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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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The new financing, co-led by BMO Impact Investment Fund and S2G Ventures , will propel Sound toward profitability and support the launch of bioinspired nutrient efficiency solutions that empower growers to achieve healthier soils, thriving crops, and climate-friendly farming practices. After reaching 2 million acres in the U.S.

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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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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Different agricultural practices emit or sequester different amounts of carbon, so multiple farming practices must be considered when determining a farm’s environmental impact. Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres).

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Agwired

OCTOBER 31, 2024

farmers are using a new solution to treat soil compaction – a problem that affects over 68 million acres of farmland and significantly reduces crop yields. Three years of independent field trials have confirmed significant yield boosts of up to 34 percent in a multitude of crops, with an 86 percent win rate. soybean acreage.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

By Audrey Kolde , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist My experience in farming started at the hand-tool scale. My love of farming hasnt changed as the aches and pains have increasedin fact, it has grown. With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming.

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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Maximizing yield at minimal input cost is an existential problem in agriculture. Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. The need for feedback optimization shows in our rapid adoption.

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ProAg

AUGUST 22, 2024

Like ECO, if a farmer chooses Yield Protection or a yield-based policy, SCO covers yield loss. SCO can only be issued on acres enrolled in the PLC commodity program. Acres enrolled in ARC are ineligible for SCO coverage. If a farmer chooses a revenue protection policy, then SCO would cover revenue losses.

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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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Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

There were 212,714 farms with 53.1 million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey results, published today by the U.S. In 2018, the irrigation survey results showed that there were 231,474 farms with 55.9

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recent statistics on American agriculture reveal a decline of 200,000 farms between 2007 and 2022. million farms —to 2 million from 6.8 The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

MyLands new program, aiming to cover 9,000 acres in Washington, is supported with funding from Washingtons Climate Commitment Act (CCA). The CCA supports Washingtons climate action efforts by putting cap-and-invest dollars to work reducing climate pollution, creating jobs, and improving public health.

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Agwired

MARCH 17, 2025

Pivot Bio PROVEN G3 joins the companys Pivot Bio PROVEN 40 nitrogen-fixing solution, which has been successfully used by growers on millions of acres to date. PROVEN G3 consistently drives improved nitrogen production, seamlessly enhancing farmers current nitrogen programs and yield potential, said Ryan Van Roekel, Ph.D.,

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Syngenta’s theme at the Farm Progress Show last week was Better Yield is the Better Deal , which technical development lead Dean Grossnickle explains is putting the right products on that acre to maximize yield, maximize performance and maximize that return on investment. Each acre is unique.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On average, plants treated with PROVEN 40 showed higher nitrogen levels early in the season with no yield loss, despite a reduction of 35-40 pounds of synthetic fertilizer per acre. This suggests PROVEN 40 can be integrated into nutrient management plans while maintaining crop productivity.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. New Jersey’s farms, just to the north, have not yet seen this degree of impact, and the U.S.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 27, 2024

We’re proud to provide farmers with the tools they need to farm more confidently and mitigate risks effectively.” During that same three-year period, farmers experienced, on average, nearly a bushel per acre yield advantage when replacing nearly 40 pounds of nitrogen with PROVEN 40.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Partly because I am old enough to remember that back in the 1950s and 60s, in other words before the widespread adoption of intensive chemical based farming, we used to produce food in harmony with nature at scale. Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone. Photography by Claire Duncombe.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 1, 2023

1, 2023 Weather conditions delivered a mixed bag of yield and quality results for Texas rice producers, but volatility in the global rice market could help growers, according to Texas A&M AgriLife experts. Texas rice acres were down compared to last year, and yield numbers and quality have.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

agriculture, with enhanced implementation of conservation practices and emerging technologies, has an opportunity to more than offset its carbon footprint while increasing farmer profitability and farm resilience, according to a new report initiated by U.S. Cargill RegenConnect has surpassed one million enrolled acres for the 2025 U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Unlock the benefits of soil testing on your farm, including the IRS Section 180 deduction and more. If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. But are there other cost-saving opportunities you might be missing?

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are some of the key takeaways I gleaned from my review of Chapter 11 of NCA 5 : “Weather whiplash” is already hurting US agriculture Extreme weather events like floods, droughts, and heat waves, along with altered precipitation patterns, have affected agriculture by negatively impacting productivity, and made crop yields much less predictable.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When looking for farms to source ingredients for Goldenrod, we look for good stewards of the land. We work with Common Good Farms , a Nebraska business and biodynamic farm that treats plants as living things. Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains.

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