Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversubsidizes the production of corn and soybeans, which are used for livestock feed, ethanol, and to create sugars, starches, and oils that end up in highly processed foods.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

American Farmland Trust (AFT) announced a new “Land Transfer Navigators” program in partnership with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services (USDA NRCS) that will help exiting farmers and landowners retire with confidence and help new, beginning, and underserved farmers gain secure, equitable land access.

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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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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

Though I love sazón and Goya’s seemingly unlimited products, hearing her only able to connect to her gastronomical ancestry through a company founded by Spanish immigrants making highly processed, high-sodium products was kind of heartbreaking.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farmers need a team who are collectively well-informed about local and regional conditions, including the location of farmland, methods for finding it, and the relevant policy landscape,” Brice said. This keeps active farmland in active agriculture and can sometimes ease the burden a brand-new, startup faces,” Brice said.

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Farmland Real Estate Finance Agriculture 92

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. This can put regenerative farmers in a bind as it takes multiple years to transition land or reach profitability with new processes. That’s really telling to me.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 125

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. But the process hasn’t always come easily. The process of extracting the fermentable sugars out of sweet potatoes is not an easy one.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

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. Total citrus sales were $146 million. in March 2022.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Over two centuries, hundreds of thousands of acres were cleared to establish rice plantations, shaping the Southern economy and landscape.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 127

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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Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 127

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

CSP remains the largest conservation initiative in the US, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled in the program in FY2023 (see Figure 1). Despite this strong foundation, this figure is actually a drop in cumulative acres of nearly 7 million acres during this farm bill cycle. million new acres enrolled in FY2023, 3.28

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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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Farming Farming Tractor Agriculture 138

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

farmland that is rented or leased. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. During that same period, an estimated 20 million acres of farmland went out of production. This data highlights the growing need for farmland ownership to be accessible for young farmers. has been in decline.

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Farmland Finance Real Estate Ruralism 59

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Only the rice becomes food for humans. Grocery stores are scarce.

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 99

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it. acre Growing Home farm grew fresh produce for restaurants and surrounding communities.

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Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 139

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We looked at a range of agricultural models, and spoke to farmers who are in the middle of the process of transition to find out more. The acreage is going down, too: There are about 879 million acres being farmed, down slightly from the 900 million acres growing crops or feeding animals in 2017. And we replanted five acres.”

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ranching 94

Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 25, 2023

by Brent Gloy and David Widmar When you write and speak about farmland values, you inevitably get variations of the question, “Should I buy the farm?” And when farmland values soar, those questions come in even more frequently. 1) Is farmland a good investment? higher future farmland values).

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. So large grocery chains in the region often fill their shelves with heavily processed foods that are transported from thousands of miles away. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. That has created a food system that may be more efficient, but is also less resilient.

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Farming Farming Marketing Food 143

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” Of course, some of these processes are natural—but healthy soils have the resiliency to resist excess erosion, whereas degraded soils are more vulnerable to even natural climatic cycles.

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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

National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 29, 2024

I went to the county assessor to change my tax status, but I was told that my farmland was classified as residential and that there was no way to change it due to a state statute. I was being taxed through the roof simply because of the size of my farm. Essentially, if I wanted fair taxes, I’d have to change the law.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Farm and Ranch Enterprise has installed an in-conduit hydropower system that integrates sustainable energy production with advanced center-pivot irrigation technology across its 7,700 acres of irrigated farmland. The energy is used to power onsite farming operations.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We There was no guesswork,” he says.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a landowner with hundreds of acres of upland Appalachian hardwoods, I would sit there and watch a bevy of bureaucrats carve off massive pieces for logging in what are known as “below cost” timber sales. But on these sales, taxpayers paid for the roads, paid for the bidding process, inventory evaluation, etc.

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Ecology Acre Compost Ranching 84

Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

2023 Report Agriculture Highlights By The Numbers ● Denali’s recycling efforts produced enough natural fertilizer to support more than 100,000 acres of farmland and manufactured enough animal feed to nourish over 40,000 cattle across five states. The report also notes the company collected 1.7

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Fertilizer Manufacturing Acre Compost 49

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. A few weeks ago, we processed the first litter of meat rabbits. A few weeks ago, we processed the first litter of meat rabbits.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

Trimble Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

farmland expected to transfer ownership in the next two decades, it’s a discussion that needs to be had sooner rather than later. farms has fallen below two million, with total farmland acres dropping to 880 million—the lowest since 1850. According to the 2022 ag census, family farms still dominate U.S.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Finance 90

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” ” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The thought experiment concluded with a rough figure that each lb of moved product incurs about ⅓ of a pound of CO2 in the process. At an industry-average field-farming yield rate of 22,175 pounds per acre (for the more boutique varieties that are grown in CEA settings), that's a lot of lettuce! of the American Farmland Trust.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

To significantly reduce the land sinking process, there needs to be a significant increase in groundwater levels. Map of the Central Valley’s rural communities classified as disadvantaged communities by the California Department of Water Resources with <3,700 acres (5.8 million acre-feet per year (576 billion gallons per year).

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

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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Farmland Acre Marketing Farming 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Photo courtesy of Chris Rauch) Rauch is one of many farmers taking a chance on a new process called Enhanced Rock Weathering, or ERW. ” 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.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

SILT

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I’m very pleased with the process our board went through to find and hire Breanna. Founded in 2015, by two dozen leaders in agriculture, development and planning, SILT’s mission is to preserve Iowa farmland for sustainable table food farming, ensuring that future generations of Iowans can access affordable farmland and the food it can grow.

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Farmland Food Science Acre 52

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

An application of GE bacteria could release 3 trillion genetically modified organisms every half an acre that’s about how many GE corn plants there are in the entire U.S. That we can tinker with genetic regulatory processes does not mean we understand the complexity of the system. And BASF sells a 2.0

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Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

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. That’s because farmers in dry, Western states have long had to contend with salt in their soil.

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