The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 18, 2025

The MAHA movement and spotlight on autism especially are putting a lot of attention on food additives, food quality, ultra-processed food (now 75 percent of Americans' diet), and chemicals used on farms, from fertilizers to herbicides. Several years ago I had the privilege of visiting a 3-acre school division farm in northern California.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For Trisha, sustainability means “freedom to really farm how we should be farming,” including being freed from the volatile cost of inputs like synthetic fertilizers. Fertilizer costs rose by more than 33 percent from 2020 to 2021 because of several factors, including extreme weather events and the Russian war against Ukraine.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.

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Agwired

JULY 12, 2023

Timac Agro USA and Rainbow Plant Food have collaborated to bring a new generation of fertilizer efficiency tools to the agricultural market. BLUE fertilizer products are comprised of superior homogeneous granular technology and a mixture of natural substances that benefit agronomic production.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales. Read More Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 24, 2024

But for farmers, selecting which product and application is right for their acres can be a daunting and confusing task. But for farmers, selecting which product and application is right for their acres can be a daunting and confusing task. Read More Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production. Read More

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

million new acres (22% of all FY2023 acres) (see Figure 1), and nearly $171 million expended directly on climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices in CSP, with the additional $79 million of IRA funds allocated to CSP supporting technical assistance for all contracts signed.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Precision agriculture has enabled unprecedented fine-tuning of crop management from variable-rate fertilization to micro-zone irrigation. Translating that to agriculture: imagine we have dense soil test data across a field and create a different fertilizer blend for every slight variation. But how precise is too precise?

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Agricultural Economics Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

With spring planting – and a few big USDA reports- around the corner, this week’s post steps back to review fertilizer prices. Per Acre Expense Figure 1 shows the estimated corn fertilizer expense for a 180-70-70 rate. Current 2024 prices translate into a $160 per acre expense. Calculations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

A Minnesota grower asks Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, how to improve upon the soil fertility on 90 acres he is renting for the first time this year.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When pricing and budgeting for the 2024 growing season begins, producers will notice fertilizer prices are significantly lower and returning to more normal levels. Budgeted Fertilizer Expenses Figure 1 shows the expense of a 180-70-70 corn fertilizer blend. In 2022, the budget expense reached an eye-watering $273 per acre.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After reaching 2 million acres in the U.S. This year, Sound is accelerating market share growth for its products while driving meaningful change through an innovative grower incentive program, Efficient Acre. in just four years and continuing to grow rapidly, Sound is scaling its portfolio across new products and geographies.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2025

Research in California showed that farmers who used a few acres of less-productive land for solar arrays had more financial stability than those who opted to convert agricultural land exclusively to solar energy production.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

New research published in Scientific Reports describes a breakthrough in nitrogen fertilizer technology seen as the first new mode of nitrogen action in crops to be discovered in a century. In field trials, researchers used isotopic experiments to confirm nitrogen fixation in real-world conditions and measure plant nitrogen levels.

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Many farmers, especially those in the Midwest that apply animal manure, are able to deduct excess fertility when they purchase land that they are currently not farming. These farmers get a professional agronomist to survey the property and then determine the amount of excess fertility that might be present in the ground.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This excess fertility has value when you purchase farmland and the value of the “excess” is allowed to be deducted, usually over about 3 years. In order to properly document this deduction, you should get an agronomist to workup the value of the excess fertility. We are only discussing the “excess” amount.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) championed the program amid the decline of the sugarcane industry, spurring about 200 acres of kava cultivation by backyard growers and commercial farms, according to Johnston. Fertile rainforests were razed for sugarcane fields, then abandoned after the industrys collapse in the 1990s.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Today, large corporate agribusinesses drain wetlands to expand their vast cropland and damage remaining wetlands with fertilizers, pesticides, and other pollutants running off of nearby agricultural fields. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 21, 2024

It’s been that kind of year, says Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness soybean specialist Horst Bohner as growers in rain-soaked areas of the province make a final dash to plant soybean acres. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean School, Bohner looks. Read More

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, growers are making fresh kokoleka, or chocolate in lelo Hawaii (Hawaiian language), through mindful agricultural practices: creating their own soil and compost, contracting with locals, and using organic fertilizer. Its gonna be Hawaiian grown, and its gonna be quality beans. And we grow a lot. Photography by Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Today, the Mattives farm 2,000 acres of certified seed potatoes, a specialized crop that begins in their tissue culture lab, where a single plant is carefully propagated into tens of thousands. This forward-thinking approach has helped them maintain productivity while ensuring the land remains fertile for future generations.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

One common way to put a value on soil is to determine how much fertilizer it would take to replace the lost nutrients. I created a spreadsheet to take the numbers directly from this test and calculate a value per ton of soil based on average fertilizer prices over the past several years. How do we put a price on life?

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On the other hand, conventional management of cropland and pastureland has acidified many millions of acres unnaturally quickly in the past century or so, and this is the real issue at hand. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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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. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land. Healthy soil can also produce healthier livestock. “If

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. In the United States alone, farmers apply $16 billion worth of pesticides and more than $30 billion in fertilizers annually, yet the ag-industry lacks critical insight on where all this value ends up.

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Agwired

MARCH 17, 2025

Pivot Bio PROVEN G3 joins the companys Pivot Bio PROVEN 40 nitrogen-fixing solution, which has been successfully used by growers on millions of acres to date. As a weatherproof and most efficient source of nitrogen per pound, PROVEN G3 seamlessly integrates into current fertility programs.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

There's 270 acres inside that red boundary (so consider that when determining perspective and the percentage of area-wide coverage comparatively. The green area bounded by the red line is less than half a section, and the full image comprises about 81 sections for a total of 52,000 acres.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs. But that reality is starting to change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

During the conference, Pivot Bio hosted over 25 researchers, graduate students, and collaborators from various universities and institutions at its state-of-the-art Product Success Center in St.

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Agwired

MARCH 8, 2024

It was a year ago at Commodity Classic that Phospholutions introduced RhizoSorb® and this year they are ready to go full scale with a product that is the first proven fertilizer technology to reduce phosphorus use by 50% while preserving grower yields. “That’s huge with the impending 45Z low carbon fuels initiative. .”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. Friends Farm is not technically located on agricultural land.

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