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State agriculture officials adopt policy supporting the right to farm

NASDA

The purpose of this new policy is to lessen the loss of farmland caused by nuisance lawsuits which can arise when nonagricultural land uses expand into agricultural and forest areas,” NASDA CEO Ted McKinney said. The USDA Economic Research Service reports the number of farmers and acres of land in farms is on a downward trend.

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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.”

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Sustainability: Three Key Takeaways from the 2022 USDA Ag Census

DTN

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. As Emma Fuller at Fractal Agriculture pointed out, “at the current rate, it’d take us 90 years to achieve cover crop adoption on 50% of corn and soy acres in the U.S.”

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Are Investors Increasingly Buying Farmland? A Data-Driven Look at Ownership Shifts

Tillable

The narrative around farmland ownership is changing, with a common belief that investors , particularly those from overseas, are increasingly purchasing more US farmland from local farmers. We weighted the measure by acres transacted rather than the number of transactions, recognizing certain limitations in our approach.

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As California Gets Drier, Solar Panels Could Help Farms Save Water

Civil Eats

But the farm is one of relatively few examples of agrivoltaics —or combined agriculture and photovoltaic array systems—on private land in California, where the technology has been surprisingly slow to gain visibility and traction. Internationally, many countries in Europe and Asia are ahead of the U.S. In November, U.C.

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Large-Scale Ohio Research Project to Explore How Solar and Farming Can Co-Exist

Daily Yonder

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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How Can We Mobilize New Farmers?

Modern Farmer

In the coming decade, 400 million acres of American farmland—nearly half of all farmland in the United States—will become available as the older generation of American farmers retires or dies. 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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