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Finding Farmland For Your Farm

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Finding the best farmland for your new farm involves several key steps to ensure you choose a location that meets your needs and goals. In this article, we're going to cover some ways to find farmland, questions to ask when at a potential farm location, and other tips and tricks.

Farmland

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State agriculture officials adopt policy supporting the right to farm

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NASDA’s new policy supports laws that protect agricultural and forestry operations and facilities from nuisance lawsuits. The purpose of this new policy is to lessen the loss of farmland caused by nuisance lawsuits which can arise when nonagricultural land uses expand into agricultural and forest areas,” NASDA CEO Ted McKinney said.

Agriculture

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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

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. To Nordell’s dismay, Songbird Farm’s well water tested 400 times the state’s safety threshold of 20 parts per trillion. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

Farming

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Understanding the COMET-Planner Tool

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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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

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RELEASE: Chairwoman Stabenow Introduces Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act

National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024, S.5335 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Evan Flom, Campaign Communications Manager National Young Farmers Coalition press@youngfarmers.org, 518-643-3564 ext. 742 Washington, D.C.

Ruralism

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The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are systemic insecticides that are now used to coat corn, soy, and other seeds planted on hundreds of millions of acres across the country.

Pesticide

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Industry Ag News 4/5

Agwired

APRIL 5, 2024

Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (CO-08) recently announced a bill to address the impending transfer of over 370 million acres of farmland in the next two decades. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. These projects in turn can save farmers money, create new revenue streams, and increase productivity.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ruralism

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025. agricultural policy.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S.

Farmland

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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