National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. But now, people outside the industry are paying attention to how crops are grown, as an increasing number of food companies, grain buyers, and consumers seek ingredients grown using sustainable practices. Cover crops are a good example of this.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. farmland is regularly cover cropped. So, the program pays a farmer $55 an acre to grow their cover crops to at least 12 inches; at 24 inches, they receive an additional $20 per acre.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. acres are reserved for vegetables.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. million, in the 2022 census.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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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. The knowledge she learned ultimately led her to begin farming 40 acres of family land with partner Tanner Smith in 2020. (As Certainly, we are not solving that problem.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. ” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. ” A map of acidic soil levels across the US.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. acres of land.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

In July, a team of researchers led by Kate Tully at the University of Maryland published a paper that mapped the extent of saltwater intrusion onto Delaware and Maryland farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula for the first time.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

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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. They can supplement their cows’ diets with grain (an expensive remedy), or cut and dry their fescue and feed it to them as hay, which reduces its toxicity somewhat.

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DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

. “quantifying carbon emissions and sequestration isn’t a simple process…” “…carbon opportunities go beyond measuring soil carbon” In this new model, farmers using sustainable practices would receive premiums and grain elevators would get a cut of that premium, too.

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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. It’s never been that low since it began filling in 1945. Why do we need this many almonds? Almond milk.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

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. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Funding through the Increasing Land Access, Security, and Opportunities Act will provide critical resources to both individual producers as well as community-led organizations to implement farmland access, retention, and transition projects. Young farmers desperately need access to quality, affordable farmland.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.

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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. Even if big farmers get the highest commodity grain prices in ages, their input costs might turn their growing season into a financial train wreck. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers.

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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.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA. Of the Midwest’s overall acres, 75 percent are covered by corn and soybeans.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

Located in Falcon Heights, within the Twin Cities metropolitan area, The Good Acre serves as a food hub committed to farmer equity, food quality, and the environment. The shared commercial kitchen at The Good Acre, a food hub in Falcon Heights, MN. The warehouse at The Good Acre. Bang Brewery, St.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. I just seed the minimal level of 10 pounds [of flax] an acre with my peas.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yet, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, more and more wildlife habitat is being taken away and turned into housing developments or converted into farmland. I’ve been a rural resident and a regenerative farmer for nearly two decades, currently operating an 81-acre farm in a remote corner of northeast Washington State.

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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.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2023

bushels per acre, the USDA December estimate pegs the corn crop 6.7 June Acreage Surprise Perhaps the biggest story in the grain market was the June acreage report, which revealed the low soybean/corn price ratio in late 2022 did its job of motivating producers to plant corn. Corn Yield Again Below Trend At 174.9 2018 was 5.2

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has estimated that these dollars will help hundreds of thousands of farmers and ranchers apply conservation to millions of acres of land. Among the requirements was that school meals needed to incorporate increasing amounts of whole grains, a dietary shift associated with improved health outcomes.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

But the university’s extension program has built a network of Black farmers that gives project coordinator Ibrahim Katampe confidence that urban and small rural vegetable farmers will sign on when he is ready for them, “especially those that have a minimum of 1,000 square feet to up to an acre of land.”

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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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