Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The current situation: Most American farmland acreage is dedicated to animal feed and fuel production. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B of US farmland. Its point (you have heard this from me repeatedly): the U.S. It ought to focus on food for people.

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. The Winnebago Tribe spent nearly $10,000 per acre, on average, to buy back 340 acres of ag land. So they lost it.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 18, 2025

Several years ago I had the privilege of visiting a 3-acre school division farm in northern California. And meanwhile, farmlands and supermarket shelves are full of who knows what. Each bed would have one week to indicates its delight with the product or its aversion. and scientists on the other side screaming "no proof!"

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In agriculture production spending, the cost of these programs is surpassed only by federal crop insurance. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. In 2023, there were 239.7

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. 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.” But times have changed.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And so it is, in the sense that at least the Government are consulting on the best way to use our precious land, given the inevitable conflicting needs of recreation, reforestation, nature restoration, renewable energy generation and sustainable food production. The case for land sharing Why do I believe that this approach is better?

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The farmland market is an important indicator of an operation’s financial strength. For farmers who own their land, farmland makes up more than 80 percent of their total assets. In this article, we explore historical farmland market trends, including farmland ownership demographics, average farm sizes, and regional differences.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Originally, the subsidies were only given for production support, but they are gradually moving over to these environmental elements. In fact, EU farmers receive $1,000 per acre per year just for owning farmland. Seemingly without end, these special payments add up to roughly 60 percent of all farm income in Europe.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A new state record blew past the previous one when it comes to farmland sales in Missouri. A farmer in Carroll County purchased 115 acres for $4 million, or $34,800 per acre. The auctioneer says the land has very productive soil, some of the best in the whole state.

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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. What we’re studying now is how different types of panels and vegetation impact energy production.”

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ProAg

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, analysts predicted 2023 would result in farmland prices finally tapering off or even declining. cropland was $5,460 per acre, 8% higher than in 2022. According to USDA data, pastureland values averaged $1,760 per acre, $110 higher than in 2022 and a whopping 66% increase since 2009. Read more on farmland values here.

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ATTRA

MARCH 25, 2025

The report, authored by Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center, includes statistics about farm sizes, commodity production and sales, and how residents spend their money on food. Between 2017 and 2022, Nebraska lost nearly 2,000 farms and 1 million acres of farmland. However, farmers sold at least $16.6

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S. More than 75 percent of farmland in the U.S. That is a 7.4

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Canada’s current agricultural production model is unsustainable and in desperate need of reform. The report advocates for a national policy strategy to help Canada become a global leader in productivity enhancing automation and in low carbon, sustainable food production.

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

corn product and has increased the price of corn by about 30% and other crops by about 20% annually (Lark and Stevens agreed with this. It is likely that the ethanol industry has supported an increase in corn-growing acres, estimating it to be about 1% of the corn acres in the U.S., about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc.,

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Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

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. By the spring of 2022, more than 50 farms in Tier 1 areas learned they had high levels of forever chemicals in their products, their fields, and their water.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, the US has lost both farms and farmland, according to the latest data from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture , released this week. The US is now home to about 880 million acres of farmland, down from 900 million at the time of the last census in 2017. million farms. It doesn’t have to be.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 31, 2024

farmers are using a new solution to treat soil compaction – a problem that affects over 68 million acres of farmland and significantly reduces crop yields. The spreadsheets estimate costs, revenues and yields from agricultural production under different solar configurations. soybean acreage.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Shes already lost 13 acres to a private landowner and now the city of Bristol wants to take back 20 acres that have been leased to Yew Tree Farm since the 1960s. The demands of growing cities are increasingly impinging on farmland. However, there are alternatives for shrimp production, to be found, remarkably, in Minnesota.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Recognizing the value of farmland and the fact that, as a popular phrase goes, “they’re not making any more land,” investors are buying up agricultural acreage.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CSP aims to enhance natural resources while maintaining profitable agricultural production. It does this by providing financial and technical assistance to farmers actively managing and expanding conservation activities even while they work their lands for production.

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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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Tillable

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

producers manage 80% of the country’s farmland. Increasing Land Ownership Among Top Producers In Illinois, the top 20% of producers acquired 150% more farmland than all other producers combined in recent years. This concentration reflects areas of high agricultural productivity and specialization, often driven by efficiencies of scale.

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Ohio State University

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A variety of topics were discussed such as Ohio farm finances, farm labor, the upcoming farm bill, commodity markets, and livestock production. The Ag Econ faculty noted that “engaging with the Farm Bureau gave us many ideas to make our research and outreach programs even more relevant and timely for the Ohio agricultural sector.”

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Collected once every five years by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service, the 2022 Census of Agriculture is a 757- page document spanning more than 6 million data points on land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income, and expenditures.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In remarks made on February 13 while releasing the new Census data, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack directed attention to the loss of farmland and farms since the 2017 Census saying: “ What you find is in 2017 there were 2 million farmers, today the survey report shows we have 1.9 billion in agricultural products, up from $388.5

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The authors suggest exploring a non-plastic, biodegradable alternative mulch to limit the threat to soil function and agricultural productivity caused by unabated plastic accumulation, given that around the world, over 25 million acres of farmland is seasonally covered with opaque plastic films.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

In addition, over the last decade, farmland prices have doubled nationwide and risen far higher in areas with pressure due to real estate development or commodity prices. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black. This round of awards is the first-time funds have been distributed through the LCM program.

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Marketing Farmland Distribution Real Estate 90

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. Production of ethanol—a fuel typically derived from corn— exploded in the years after the Wall Street Farm Bill was passed.

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The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

Growing up in a predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood in New York City, I’ve seen a lot of my community buying and consuming food products that are detrimental to their health because it was cheaper and more accessible to them than fresh produce and meat.

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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.”

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