National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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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. Young farmers desperately need access to quality, affordable farmland.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number. According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Despite this, regional food supply chains have long been under-funded and under-resourced. farmland owners identify as white. Farmers worked overtime to make up for and build this infrastructure on their own. This deeply inequitable history has resulted in our current landscape where 98% of U.S.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. And we could take 1,000 acres, 10,000 acres, or 1 million acres, and we’d know exactly what to do. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts. Most farmers raise more than one flock.

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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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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. Greening the food supply chain requires efficient methods to connect grain buyers with sustainable grain growers, and buyers will want to be assured that the grain they’re buying really was grown sustainably. from 2022 to 2030.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Does any of that sound familiar?

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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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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

Lastly, the Local and Regional Food Systems campaign seeks to strengthen local food systems by investing in local infrastructure and food supply chains while purchasing food from small, local farms and from farmers from socially disadvantaged populations that can go to schools and food pantries. The warehouse at The Good Acre.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 9, 2024

And during the environmental and societal reckoning of the pandemic—not to mention the collapse of the industrial food supply chain—the work of these regenerative farmers became more meaningful than ever before. These two questions launched me on the journey to write this book. But it was only later that I learned of their urgency.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025. agricultural policy.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. And yet, heat is also already the deadliest extreme weather event in the U.S.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2023

The local and regional food systems that support this network of local producers, retailers, and consumers are receiving growing recognition and support for their unique value add every time we experience a global supply chain disruption (such as the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change).

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. agriculture industry—currently running at about 150 million barrels of oil equivalent a year—will disappear as all parts of the supply chain related to growing and transporting cattle are disrupted. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. How can we create shorter supply chains, both to and from the farm? It would take a couple years and likely a million bucks to make that change.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

This rule may seem counterintuitive at first, but an industry expert told me that Walmart implemented it to manage its own supply chain risk. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. It requires that no more than 30 percent of their sales come from Walmart. The question is what we do with that?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Despite the beauty of the surrounding farmland, food was often scarce. For more than 30 years, the Thompsons had farmed on 20 acres, growing tomatoes, green beans, and squash—basic crops meant to provide food for themselves and the local community.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The newly freed men and women desired land from the government, which resulted in an ordinance for the redistribution of 400,000 acres of land from South Carolina to Florida for the four million freedmen. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

ARC and PLC payments are made not according to a farm’s real-time planting, but historical base acres. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) views historical base acres as a safeguard against farmers “planting the program,” or planting commodities according to projections each season specifically to trigger payments.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025. Linking Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Early in Bidens presidency, a confluence of factors including pandemic supply-chain disruptions, climate change, and corporate price gouging caused food prices to soar around the globe, including in the U.S.

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