Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. The current situation: Most American farmland acreage is dedicated to animal feed and fuel production.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

But the reliance on utility-scale solar, which requires hundreds to even thousands of acres of land for panel installations, has sparked questions regarding the magnitude of land use requirements. Plus, it enables households and business owners within rural areas, farmers and non-farmers alike, to benefit from renewable energy.

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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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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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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska’s growing days. In 2021, the USDA listed the average value for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. The 2017 U.S. In Florida, it’s $7,300.

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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. Farmland remains a crucial asset. Although input costs were up, farmland values were up too. Farms gained more than 10 percent in equity in 2022.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Educating visitors, preserving farmland, and sharing agricultural heritage were named the top three most important benefits—but there are so many more. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. Preserving Farmland Agricultural land is disappearing.

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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 week is the Farm Bill for All Farmers Week of Action: Conservation Not Consolidation. We’ve made calling and emailing your lawmakers as easy as possible.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. A recent report from the American Farmland Trust says Ohio could lose more than 518,000 acres of farmland to urban sprawl by 2040.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

Secure access to affordable, quality farmland is the top challenge facing the passionate young people across the country who are stewarding land and feeding their communities. New farmers or returning generations of the family farm support rural school districts, shop in local stores and attend community events.

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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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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. Every piece of land purchased as a result of this project will be ushered through a three-pronged approach to increase farmland ownership by underserved farmers.

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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. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Hard truth: we have to use farmland differently Strategic cropland repurposing is the change in land use from an economic activity that produces negative side effects (such as harming people’s health and the environment) to new land uses that produce positive side effects. million acre-feet per year (576 billion gallons per year).

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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. Early 20th century agriculture was labor intensive, and it took place on many small, diversified farms in rural areas where more than half the U.S. population lives.”

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. Like what you see here? They also taught me to love the land. To care for it.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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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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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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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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. ppm for nitrates. Each year, the measurement in their water kept creeping up.

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Agwired

JULY 28, 2023

For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. The amendment was introduced to the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2024 , the legislation that funds the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, while some of our recommendations were voiced in the Pathways to Farming Senate Subcommittee hearing, the focus on base acres and reference prices as the best solution to support the next generation of farmers missed the mark ,” said Michelle Hughes, Co-Executive Director of Young Farmers. “

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Funding through the Increasing Land Access, Security, and Opportunities Act will provide critical resources to both individual producers as well as community-led organizations to implement farmland access, retention, and transition projects. Young farmers desperately need access to quality, affordable farmland.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. 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. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 5, 2024

If you’re a rural landowner, you know as well as us that land is your most valuable asset and must be used wisely to build long-term financial success. Land Purchase Read how this fruit orchard operator used a $60MM custom loan package to expand their operation, plant 50 acres of new trees, and increase profitability.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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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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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. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. For example, in 2016, after receiving a complaint, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) cited Argus for selling eggs from small farms that hadn’t processed their eggs in a licensed facility. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. million in sales.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When farmers have secure, equitable access to land, they contribute to national food security, strengthen local supply chains, grow rural economies, and build climate resilience. An investment in access to farmland in the next farm bill will generate immense returns for taxpayers. “The

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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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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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