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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Crop Production Agriculture Agriculture 119

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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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Farming 109

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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Farmland Food Farming Farming 127

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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Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism Farmland 132

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 131

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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Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 105

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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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

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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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 111

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 96

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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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 72

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 106

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

.” Scientists, farmers, and advocates agree that one of the biggest barriers to rolling out agrivoltaics in California—the national leader in solar energy , agricultural production , and even on-farm solar —is a need for more state-specific research. Internationally, many countries in Europe and Asia are ahead of the U.S.

Farming 132

Farming Farming Technology Acre 132

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 15, 2024

Farm safety net subsidies reward an industrial farming model that contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and farmland consolidation in agriculture. This style of commodity production contributes to soil erosion and worsening climate change. This week is the Farm Bill for All Farmers Week of Action: Conservation Not Consolidation.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 105

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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Farming Farming Forage Acre 97

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

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 118

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Experts say that what happens in Nebraska affects food production globally , all due to the dependence on products from right in our backyard. Farmers across the country, and especially here in Nebraska, are already using regenerative agriculture practices like cover crops to yield high-quality products.

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Crop Agriculture Agriculture Food 114

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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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 52

The Farmers Daughter USA

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to the USDA, only 12 million acres of corn are irrigated, which isn’t a lot when you realize that U.S. farmers annually plant around 96 million acres of corn. Despite those challenges, the land might actually be great for production as long as there is enough natural rainfall.

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Crop Acre Farmland Yield 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

CSP aims to enhance natural resources while maintaining profitable agricultural production. CSP remains the largest conservation initiative in the US, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled in the program in FY2023 (see Figure 1). million new acres enrolled in FY2023, 3.28 million (22%) were funded through the IRA.

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

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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Crop Farming Farming Acre 127

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. But plasticulture, or the use of plastic products in agriculture, also comes with a wide range of known problems. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 131

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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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 95

Agwired

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The full Census of Agriculture report as well as publication dates for additional ag census data products can be found at nass.usda.gov/AgCensus. farms and ranches and amount of acres in farmland. farms and ranches and amount of acres in farmland. Are we okay with losing that much farmland?

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Farmland 45

Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After implementing soil health management, 85 percent of corn farmers and 88 percent of soybean farmers saw increased net income by an average of $52 per acre and $45 per acre for each respective commodity. After signing an agreement, two parcels of land, 650 and 70 acres respectively, were submitted for testing.

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Fertilizer Yield Acre Crop Yield 111

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Back up a step: What is urban agriculture?

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Agroecology Yield Food Farming 82

Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Between the years 2017 and 2022, America lost almost 20 million acres of farmland. Despite this rapid decline, the average farm size increased five percent to 463 acres. Farm production expenses totaled $424 billion in 2022, a 17.8 Farmland remains a crucial asset. percent increase from 2017.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 59

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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Farmland Farming Farming Production 52

The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. We also chatted about the farmland converted into solar panels—the area around Red Hen Turf Farm has a lot of them. Gordon said it’s great for marginal farmland (or, land that doesn’t produce well). It was my first time on a turf farm!

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Farmland 98

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. Agricultural production in the 21st century, on the other hand, is concentrated on a smaller number of large, specialized farms in rural areas where less than a fourth of the U.S.

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Ranching Cattle Farming Farming 112

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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Family Farming Farming Farming Ranching 82

Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

“We have to trust that they are going to supply us, and they have to trust that we are going to take good care of their products.” percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. As a result, smaller farms are disappearing. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. Eggs from Shady Glade on display at Argus Farm Stop.

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Farming Farming Marketing Food 135

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 at least the Secretary of the Interior wouldn’t, with the stroke of a pen, be able to give private largesse to millions of acres.

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Ecology Acre Compost Ranching 87

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 In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 85

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.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 120

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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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 130

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 140