Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. Increased Yields Soil testing combined with crop and fertilization management can increase yields significantly. Get the most out of your farmland.

Fertilizer 111

Fertilizer Yield Acre Crop Yield 111

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops. The COVER Act will grant farmers who plant cover crops a US$5-per-acre savings off their crop insurance bills.

Crop 116

Crop Food Agriculture Agriculture 116

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.”

Acre 103

Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

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). They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else.

Agroecology 99

Agroecology Yield Food Acre 99

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. Most modern wheat is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety that does not produce roots as deep as many heritage types. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.”

Grain 138

Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage. Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes.

Forage 85

Forage Livestock Farmland Distribution 85

The Farmers Daughter USA

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to the USDA, only 12 million acres of corn are irrigated, which isn’t a lot when you realize that U.S. farmers annually plant around 96 million acres of corn. And farmers can’t always afford drilling and maintaining wells on farmland. These challenges make irrigation an unattainable option for many farmers.

Crop 98

Crop Acre Farmland Yield 98

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.

Food 125

Food Acre Greenhouse Farming 125

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. And they’re pushing innovation.

Food 130

Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 130

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. I’m really grateful and proud that my dad was able to find a way to make a living with our small acres and his limited resources,” says Williams. “At

Acre 98

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 98

ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

And the world of precision farming methods, like GPS and sensors, save water, use fewer chemicals, and enhance crop yields with less environmental harm. Conclusion Tractors, used responsibly, can turn more acres into productive, sustainable land, reducing food insecurity and improving the local economy in communities. and Lewin, P.

Tractor 40

Tractor Farming Farming Mechanics 40

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

Greenhouse 98

Greenhouse Ranching Processing Acre 98

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

While it is true that much of the equipment that field farmers use on a daily basis is petroleum based and produces carbon dioxide in the neighborhood of 22 lbs of CO2 per gallon of fuel burned, it must be considered that this equipment is often serving hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivation acres. of the American Farmland Trust.

Cultivation 52

Cultivation Vertical Farming Acre Yield 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. For Paddock, maximizing “ crop per drop ”—getting the most yield with the least amount of water—is important. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Paddock, like a lot of farmers, is a details guy.

Orchard 98

Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 98

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. Yes, they do.

Manure 109

Manure Farming Farming Production 109

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.

Farming 139

Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 139

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.

Supply Chain 145

Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. The more water you put on a crop, the more yield you get.

Seeding 144

Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 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. Imagination leads to affection, and affection yields fidelity.

Ruralism 117

Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

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

Technology 52

Technology Supply Chain Acre Agriculture 52

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. The University of Maine is studying this example of dual-use agrivoltaics.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

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. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns. Polyester was once thought to be a wonder fiber.

Textiles 117

Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 117

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. For example, research demonstrates that genetic diversity within a single-species monoculture may make yields more stable.

Agriculture 95

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 95

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

The bulletin says, “Iowa State University researchers generally recommend terminating the cover crop with herbicide 10-14 days prior to planting corn to protect yield; however, that time frame is less critical for soybeans.” For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food. hectares (less than 2 acres), and just over 40% of the population of around 3 million, work in agriculture – Albania’s primary economic sector.

Seeding 124

Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 31, 2023

This bill, written in close collaboration with the American Farmland Trust (AFT) and the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers), aims to facilitate farmer-to-farmer conservation education by increasing support for farmer-led education networks and to build capacity for new ones—particularly for historically marginalized communities.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Acre Farmland 40

World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

In 2023, United States farmers were collecting data on 72% of all available farmland. This increase in data collection and use has tremendously improved yields for the industry. In 2013, this number was just 33%. However, it has also presented a new issue of data management and reconciliation.

Agriculture 40

Agriculture Agriculture Technology Processing 40

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Improved cost-share accounting for income forgone when farmers experience losses in revenue due to production changes, anticipated reductions in yield, transitioning to an organic resource-conserving system, or acreage converted to conservation uses. Increases the minimum CRP Grasslands acreage from 2 million to 10 million acres.

Ruralism 111

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life.

Seeding 143

Seeding Food Production Technology 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 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.

Acre 107

Acre Farming Farming Crop 107

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

Plantation 125

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 125

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.

Ranching 52

Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

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.

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77

Farming 97

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Technology Acre 145