Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land. Healthy soil can also produce healthier livestock. “If

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

There's 270 acres inside that red boundary (so consider that when determining perspective and the percentage of area-wide coverage comparatively. The green area bounded by the red line is less than half a section, and the full image comprises about 81 sections for a total of 52,000 acres. Sadly, these are not "outlier" images.

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage. Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Between the years 2017 and 2022, America lost almost 20 million acres of farmland. Despite this rapid decline, the average farm size increased five percent to 463 acres. Farmland remains a crucial asset. Although input costs were up, farmland values were up too. Farms gained more than 10 percent in equity in 2022.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. But soil quality, pest control, crop rotation, and fertilizers are all used to produce quality sod. We also chatted about the farmland converted into solar panels—the area around Red Hen Turf Farm has a lot of them. Sod is the farm’s star.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer in Maine was documented thanks to licensing requirements to apply biosolids. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He was paid to plant it by the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program , a local effort that seeks to reduce overall fertilizer use by building soil—therefore cutting down on the nutrients that enter waterways—while helping farmers save money. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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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. That’s the fight I’m in,” Balthazar adds.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. The immense counterweight to all of these restrictions is that land use laws are in place for a reason: to protect the integrity of farmland. This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms. And we’re not alone.”

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day. Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). However, when you divide a large number (i.e.,

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll. Jason Brown is testing basalt powder on his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

A couple of weeks ago the media was abuzz about Bill Gates being the new largest farmland owner in the U.S. Unlike Turner, Gates is buying cropland (farmland) not ranch land. Gates now owns 242,000 acres of cropland which is far different than the rugged range land and prairie ecosystems Turner loved and wanted to restore.

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DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

Grey explained that the data is not only collected from remote sensing, but also estimates some of the “unseeable” data like fertilization practices. Farmers who enroll in the program, a three-year commitment, will receive $50 per acre spread over three years: $25 per acre in the first year, $15 in the second and $10 in the third.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Hard truth: we have to use farmland differently Strategic cropland repurposing is the change in land use from an economic activity that produces negative side effects (such as harming people’s health and the environment) to new land uses that produce positive side effects. million acre-feet per year (576 billion gallons per year).

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lake Shasta, built in 1945 to meet the needs of six million residents and irrigate a third of California’s farmland is at 33 percent capacity. An acre of almonds requires more water than just about anything except leafy greens. That happened long before automobiles and chemical fertilizers. Why do we need this many almonds?

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it. Hunter’s not alone in wondering how to have it all, climatically speaking.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

An estimated 500,000 to 900,000 acres of irrigated farmland will likely be taken out of production to satisfy state-level groundwater laws by 2040. The worry is that fallowed farmland, especially in the eastern Central Valley where it is turning to desert, could generate more dust leading to more PM2.5 in the air.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. We ordered the bulk of our supplies last year, before the current war, and aren’t facing a fraction of the trouble larger farms that are now sourcing their increasingly tight fertilizer or herbicide supplies.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Maui’s last sugar mill, the 36,000-acre Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, Co. (HC&S), They put up a mansion; they have a horse.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number. According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. Landrace and heritage varieties of grains. in March 2022.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Darrel Franson, a Missouri rancher who remembers the endophyte-free fescue debacle, nevertheless decided to take the risk, converting his 126 acres to friendly fescue.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes. What were the results of the crop trials?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. And we could take 1,000 acres, 10,000 acres, or 1 million acres, and we’d know exactly what to do. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts. Most farmers raise more than one flock.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

We have 6,400 acres this year that we farm,” LaPointe said, pointing out color-coded land plots on the map. After the land-back policy was adopted in 2012, the tribe gradually began bidding for and winning small leases on farmland. “It Organic farming is done with no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. “We Credit: Indianz News.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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