Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.” So, after harvesting, sheep will go to work. “To

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. Cover crops are planted to protect and enhance the soil, rather than for the purpose of being harvested. The COVER Act will grant farmers who plant cover crops a US$5-per-acre savings off their crop insurance bills.

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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. Educating visitors, preserving farmland, and sharing agricultural heritage were named the top three most important benefits—but there are so many more. What is agritourism?

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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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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. But Klemm says he sees a decent harvest even in dry years.

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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 Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. In 2020, the two farms came together to form the Treehouse Farm Collective , a separate LLC that enabled them to put forward a strong proposal for a farmland lease and get approved.

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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. Testing, however, is only the first step towards regaining use of PFAS contaminated farmland. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects. EarthOptics , a next-generation soil mapping and measurement company, announced it has mapped and physically measured one million acres of farmland and ranchland.

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SILT

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In year one, four Sustainable Iowa Land Trust farmers in Iowa will thoroughly document a full growing season, including profits, losses, and challenges regarding growing, harvesting, marketing, farmers’ markets, processing, wholesale, equipment, certifications, storage, and preservation. Learn more at [link] or call (319) 800-8108.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. 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. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. Somewhere between 10 million and 20 million acres is, we believe, possibly a tipping point where regenerative organic ag could become inevitable,” says Taylor.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

While it is true that much of the equipment that field farmers use on a daily basis is petroleum based and produces carbon dioxide in the neighborhood of 22 lbs of CO2 per gallon of fuel burned, it must be considered that this equipment is often serving hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivation acres. of the American Farmland Trust.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For many seasons, most of the kale, chard, tomatoes, beets, napa cabbage, carrots, and collard greens harvested by Growing Home , a 1.5-acre acre organic urban farm in the impoverished Englewood community on Chicago’s South Side, was destined for marketplaces within the city’s more affluent communities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. Here is our best food justice reporting this year.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. Sakari Farms offers a program that teaches youth how to grow and harvest traditional foods.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 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.

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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. ppm for nitrates.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine operates 135 acres of almonds with her brother in Stanislaus and Merced counties. Even when our trees have gone through extended periods of time during harvest without water they have never reached permanent wilting point or defoliated. She also spent time speaking to representatives about issues impacting her farm.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland. I never set out to be a farmer. However, when I began my medical gender transition, everything I knew about family completely changed.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

” 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. Jason Brown is testing basalt powder on his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. ” A map of acidic soil levels across the US.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. She harvests the holly during winter to sell as holiday greenery. The NRCS will invest $1.4

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. The University of Maine is studying this example of dual-use agrivoltaics.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

headquarters just as harvest season got underway. 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 Progress was gradual, LaPointe said.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food. hectares (less than 2 acres), and just over 40% of the population of around 3 million, work in agriculture – Albania’s primary economic sector.

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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. It effectively is creating a relay crop.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

The report also touched on FDA’s final rule on Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water to a science- and risk-based approach that is adaptable to different scales of farming and models. 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.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. Grape harvest photo courtesy of Dodon.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. 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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. Issues such as harvest timing and growing season will be studied, as well as climatic impacts.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. Another study in Argentina found that when applied to the soil, glyphosate affected the viability of spores even at a very low rate of 0.8 litres per hectare.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here, farmers deliver freshly harvested produce to a brick-and-mortar retail shop with a full staff. percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. A farm stop sells food on consignment from nearby small and medium farms, landing it somewhere between a grocery store, a farmers’ market, and a food hub. In 2023, the store made $6.5

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