Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Census, conducted every five years, is a count of our nation’s farms and ranches and the people who run them, and provides a new outlook on the future of farming in the United States. The Census reports 880 million acres of privately held farmland in the U.S., down from 900 million in 2017. This survey is a wake-up call.

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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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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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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

In 2019, they connected with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States. Niman Ranch offers a guaranteed market for its farmers’ and ranchers’ products in exchange for a high standard of practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs.

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

agriculture and ranching was released in February. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. million acres annually. The pinnacle report on the state of U.S. more than five years ago.

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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. Unpac® , developed by Locus Agriculture, is an innovative biosurfactant soil amendment that successfully breaks up soil compaction through fermentation-derived technology.

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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.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

farms and ranches. million farms and ranches (down 7% from 2017) with an average size of 463 acres (up 5%) on 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%). Ag census data provide valuable insights into demographics, economics, land use and activities on U.S. The results show that there were 1.9 That is 39% of all U.S.

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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 Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. Can me and my husband buy land or afford land?”

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

of Arizona will seek to improve soil health across 12,000 acres of commercial farmland in Texas to enhance quality of life and economic return for farmers. Texas A&M AgriLife Research, MyLand Company Inc. Research efforts over the.

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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 million farms and ranches across the U.S. –

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. 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.

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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. And they’re pushing innovation.

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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. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. Preserving Farmland Agricultural land is disappearing. What is agritourism?

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

USDA officials release 2022 Census of Agriculture USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on Tuesday released results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture , which includes more than 6 million data points about America’s farms and ranches and the people who operate them down to the county level. ” There were 1.9

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

25 For our morning Summit, conversations presented by Food Tank and American Farmland Trust will center around the theme “ Climate Resilience through Agriculture.” Monday Summits: REGISTRATION + TICKET INFO Wednesday, Sept.

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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. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Most of the programming is done virtually, with limited, in-person time. “I

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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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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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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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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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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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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Texas leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, with 248,416 , and has the highest rate of uninsured residents, at about 18%.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. acres of corn and 10 acres of hay to feed them. I have never seen so much damage. Fields have either been washed away or are covered with debris. Cove Creek stream flows through his farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

His love of the west generally and bison specifically led to a massive accumulation of ranch lands. A couple of weeks ago the media was abuzz about Bill Gates being the new largest farmland owner in the U.S. Unlike Turner, Gates is buying cropland (farmland) not ranch land. This is why he's not buying ranch land.

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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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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Census, conducted every five years, is a count of our nation’s farms and ranches and the people who run them, and provides a new outlook on the future of farming in the United States. LAND ACCESS The Census reports 880 million acres of privately held farmland in the U.S., This is a loss of 20 million acres or nearly 2.2%

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act is a thoughtfully crafted vision that aims to center the needs of producers, both this new text and the Houses Farm Food and National Security Act fall far short of the investment needed to support the transition of nearly 300 million acres of farmland in the next 20 years.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

JUNE 21, 2023

The dollar amount of any crop-hail insurance coverage is determined per-acre per crop, all of which is decided on a state-by-state basis. You’ll also want to check to confirm that the legal descriptions of the location of your crops, or farmland, and the acres notated are correct as well.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 31, 2023

This bill, written in close collaboration with the American Farmland Trust (AFT) and the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers), aims to facilitate farmer-to-farmer conservation education by increasing support for farmer-led education networks and to build capacity for new ones—particularly for historically marginalized communities.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the 2022 National Young Farmer Survey , 84% of young farmers learned to farm by working on a farm or ranch, and 62% of respondents learned from a mentor or someone in their community. We need policy solutions that support the resources farmers already provide each other. 2340) in the Senate.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

Land Ownership – To qualify for a land loan, you must own or plan to buy 25 acres or more. Farm Balance Sheet An agricultural balance sheet is a financial statement that provides a snapshot of the financial condition of a farm or ranch at a specific point in time. Minimum Loan Value – AgAmerica farm loans start at $50,000.

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