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New Legislation Looks To Connect Farmland And Ranchland To Broadband

AgWeb Farm Journal

The Last Acre Act would help expand high-speed internet access across eligible farmland, ranchland and farm sites. At least 15% of farms and ranches have no access to the internet today.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently.

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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem

Food Environment and Reporting Network

By the early 20 th century, decades of timber-cutting and overgrazing had left the ranching region in southern states barren, its nutrient-rich native grasses replaced by a motley assortment of plants that made poor forage. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?

Civil Eats

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. A spokeswoman said the Park Service will ultimately consider the effect of fence removal on the ranches and dairies in the new plan—but it has yet to provide that information.

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RELEASE: New Census of Agriculture reveals more young and beginning farmers, but less farmland and fewer small farms

National Young Farmers Coalition

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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Why Are Family Farms in Trouble?

Modern Farmer

Eagle Rock Ranch. 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. There are fewer farmers and less farmland, but due to consolidation, there has been an increase in income for the remaining farmers.

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Three Takeaways from the USDA Census of Agriculture

Modern Farmer

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.”