DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

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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Tillable

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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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Tillable

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

producers manage 80% of the country’s farmland. Increasing Land Ownership Among Top Producers In Illinois, the top 20% of producers acquired 150% more farmland than all other producers combined in recent years. Here are five critical trends reshaping agriculture and how CamoAg’s insights can position you for growth. Want to learn more?

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

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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Modern Farmer

JULY 9, 2024

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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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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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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Tillable

OCTOBER 14, 2024

With nearly 32 million acres impacted and over 700,000 landowners affected, the devastation has been profound, particularly for those growing high-value crops like cotton, corn, and soybeans. As agricultural professionals and landowners begin to assess the damage, it’s clear that recovery will take time and significant resources.

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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. Meristem Crop Performance unveiled the next generation of their patented BIO-CAPSULE TECHNOLOGY delivery system.

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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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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. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. And yet, heat is also already the deadliest extreme weather event in the U.S.,

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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. Between these two extremes sits community solar, a rapidly expanding midpoint promoted by recent legislation across many US states.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Agrimatics , an industry leader in mobile-based agricultural technology, announced an integration in partnership with Case IH and New Holland, both of which are brands of CNH Industrial. Click here to register for both VISION and WiAT.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

An estimated 500,000 to 900,000 acres of irrigated farmland will likely be taken out of production to satisfy state-level groundwater laws by 2040. The worry is that fallowed farmland, especially in the eastern Central Valley where it is turning to desert, could generate more dust leading to more PM2.5 in the air.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

An application of GE bacteria could release 3 trillion genetically modified organisms every half an acre that’s about how many GE corn plants there are in the entire U.S. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. The scale of release is also far larger, and the odds of containment far smaller.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. Solar power may be the answer to the world’s future energy needs.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

Industrial Agriculture and the Relationship to Farm Consolidation Industrial agriculture refers to a large-scale farming system that emphasizes high output and efficiency through modern technology and mechanization. farms decreased by nearly seven percent, falling below two million, and total farmland fell by two percent.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. We can’t “technology” ourselves out of environmental and social crises.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Since then, technology in the field continues to advance and reimagine our food systems. At an industry-average field-farming yield rate of 22,175 pounds per acre (for the more boutique varieties that are grown in CEA settings), that's a lot of lettuce! of the American Farmland Trust.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 15, 2024

On carbon capture and storage, surely this is a classic example of blind faith in an unproven technology. He then went on to assert that the consequences of taking one percent of farmland for solar panels would not be significant for food security. Neither of these policies make any sense to me.

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World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

In 2023, United States farmers were collecting data on 72% of all available farmland. We are looking forward to expanding our capabilities through our partnership with Leaf,” said Tyler Aring, Assistant Vice President of Crop Technology at AgriSompo. The funding round included participation from all existing investors.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. And as the sustainable agriculture market grows, data and technology will need to grow with it. For decades, they have understood the need to care for the land to protect their livelihood and the environment. from 2022 to 2030.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

The whole of the cow milk industry, for example, will start to collapse once modern food technologies have replaced the proteins in a bottle of milk—just 3.3 Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. This 485 million acres equates to 13 times the size of Iowa, an area almost the size of the Louisiana Purchase.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. 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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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

farmland owners identify as white. This deeply inequitable history has resulted in our current landscape where 98% of U.S.

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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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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. Friday Morning Summit: REGISTER HERE!

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA. Of the Midwest’s overall acres, 75 percent are covered by corn and soybeans. Wendy Johnson.

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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. Companies are working on technology to make it easier—yet thousands of dangerous chemicals are used to make plastic goods and researchers are sounding the alarm about recycling them.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation , farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers and foreign buyers , pollution and animal welfare issues , as well as soil erosion and the poor treatment of migrant workers.

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ProAg

JULY 18, 2023

farmland has been introduced to the U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites from Foreign Adversaries Act. to oversee potential foreign land purchases and the Secretary of Agriculture to vote on transactions involving farmland or agricultural technology. USDA data shows China owns more than 191,000 acres of U.S.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. A recent study from the USDA’s Economic Research Service found that just two giant seed companies —Bayer and Corteva—accounted for nearly three-quarters of planted corn acres and two-thirds of planted soybean acres in the United States between 2018 and 2020.

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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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