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Large-Scale Ohio Research Project to Explore How Solar and Farming Can Co-Exist

Daily Yonder

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.”

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Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia

Agritecture Blog

As the self-sufficient urban farming movement grows, tools such as FarmLink are emerging to aid young farmers of color through the complex system of accessing and maintaining farmland. In the United States, increasing urban sprawl and rapid commercial development continue to consume farmland: From 2020 to 2021, the country lost 1.3

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

As committed stakeholders and beneficiaries of the farm bill, we cannot continue to wait for updated policies, provisions, initiatives and critical funding that support our collective interests. Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

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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Solar Farms in Colorado: Fossil Fuel-Free Energy Comes With Controversies

Daily Yonder

They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. A Legal and Logistical Maze Empire Electric’s contract with Tri-State dictates that the co-op is only allowed to generate up to 5% of its own electricity and must buy the rest from Tri-State.

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Farm Stops Create New Markets for Small Farms

Civil Eats

are buckling under the weight of financial, legal, and logistical challenges. percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. We are trying to change that narrative: to make it sustainable, economically, to be a small farmer.” A Niche for Smaller Farms Smaller farms in the U.S. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S.

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As Saltwater Encroaches on Farms, Solutions Emerge from the Marshes

Civil Eats

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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