Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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Farming Farming Crop Meadow 143

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 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

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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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

In July, a team of researchers led by Kate Tully at the University of Maryland published a paper that mapped the extent of saltwater intrusion onto Delaware and Maryland farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula for the first time.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

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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Technology Supply Chain Acre Agriculture 52

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. But the crop duster did.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 95

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

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. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

“I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. Solar Grazing Site Specifications and Management The site is in a 15-acre array that produces 5 MW of DC and 3.375 MW of AC, enough to power approximately 1,100 homes.

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Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

In 2023, United States farmers were collecting data on 72% of all available farmland. Before Leaf, these companies attempted to build massive data infrastructure to manage and reconcile all of the weather, irrigation, imagery, tractor, and other data they were collecting. Andrew Parker has joined Leaf’s Board of Directors.

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Agriculture Agriculture Technology Production 40

Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas. Since I was a kid, my mom has told me stories about family friends who were injured or killed when their tractors overturned — a leading cause of injury or death for farmers. Maybe if they called that helpline from their tractor and could vent to a stranger they’d feel better. (L

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. 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.

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Farming Farming Fertilizer Food 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

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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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvester 59

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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Manure Farming Farming Production 92

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 120