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. They consider the support from Waves of Grain and Nyland a leg up.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He was paid to plant it by the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program , a local effort that seeks to reduce overall fertilizer use by building soil—therefore cutting down on the nutrients that enter waterways—while helping farmers save money.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. Consider this scenario.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. FERTILIZATION Regular soil testing is essential to determine nutrient levels and pH.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2023

Food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have skyrocketed up to tenfold in the world’s most marginalized communities since the start of the war in Ukraine , and the cost of a healthy diet increased globally by 6.7 percent between 2019 and 2021, the SOFI report states.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Rodale Institute , proponents of regenerative organic farming, estimate that, for every acre of land farmed using plastic mulch, between 100 and 120 pounds of plastic ends up in the landfill or breaks down into a farmer’s field. million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. Unlike the U.S.,

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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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.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

For evidence, look no further than the corn-belt in the USA, as it is now known, whose soil fertility was built (in some cases several metres of it) by an interaction between millions of bison and grasslands. I suggested at the beginning of this article that we should not be too hard on the policy makers because they are simply misinformed.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

These include: Soil health transition loans that can be structured to support grain farmers through the 3-to-5-year process to adopt practices like no-till, cover crops, and efficient fertilizer and herbicide use which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

A fertile land can be a fertile civilization The swath of land between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in Mesopotamia was one of the most fertile lands known to humans, as was the riparian land of the Nile River in Ancient Egypt. Excessive fertilization has polluted aquifers with nitrates.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. of carbon per acre annually. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop. That’s a big number!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

It has saved our farm a couple of times because it’s allowed us to implement programs and conservation that have allowed us to cut inputs like herbicides and fertilizers and things. He was scheduled to plant 500 acres of grain this spring and the contract was scheduled to go through 2028.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome. Photo submitted.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre. Some of the different practices we use include: diverse crop rotation, cover crops, intercropping, low chemical use, biological fertilizer and seed treatment, soil amendments, and livestock incorporation. Why farming?

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

The first question to ask is how much nitrogen can your soil supply to the crop without adding any N fertilizer? This is commonly measured as pounds of nitrogen applied per bushel of grain harvested. Revenue per acre after paying for the N is shown in column 5. Let’s use corn as an example. lb N for urea and $0.52/lb

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed Wolf to make more money than selling conventional grain—a lot more money. It’s also not cheap. There are also some hidden costs.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. acres of land.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips.

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Agribusiness Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

They are located in Iowa and farm 4,000 acres of which they own 1,000 acres worth $10 million with no debt. The farm had the following assets at the time of death: Grain in the bin not sold $4 million (650,000 bushels of corn and 50,000 bushels of beans), Farm equipment worth $1.5 1 million grain facility worth $1.5

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.”

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The growing list of N-OVATOR partners includes major consumer packaged goods companies, ingredient suppliers, spirit producers and grain buyers who are working to improve the sustainability of their agricultural supply chains. In total, the growers in this insetting partnership replaced over 10 million pounds of synthetic fertilizer.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. They can supplement their cows’ diets with grain (an expensive remedy), or cut and dry their fescue and feed it to them as hay, which reduces its toxicity somewhat.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 24, 2024

The application of variable-rate fertilizer, cover crops, no-till, and the 4R’s are the practices promoted, but each practice alone is not THE solution. In 2023, many of the grain-producing states received below-normal rainfall. Currently, Illinois is dealing with an increased runoff of 4.8% nitrogen, and 35% phosphorous.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” Because corn requires nitrogen fertilizer to grow, Manske is concerned that further consolidation of the fertilizer industry will drive his input prices up more.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. We ordered the bulk of our supplies last year, before the current war, and aren’t facing a fraction of the trouble larger farms that are now sourcing their increasingly tight fertilizer or herbicide supplies.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An acre of almonds requires more water than just about anything except leafy greens. Switching to grass-based (not grain based) cow’s milk could be one of the most ecologically-friendly decisions you could make right now. That happened long before automobiles and chemical fertilizers. Why do we need this many almonds?

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre). Whether you till in the spring or mulch beds for the winter, seeking opportunities to establish winter cover crops with no-till methods will reap large soil health and fertility benefits into the next growing season.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. 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.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

. “quantifying carbon emissions and sequestration isn’t a simple process…” “…carbon opportunities go beyond measuring soil carbon” In this new model, farmers using sustainable practices would receive premiums and grain elevators would get a cut of that premium, too.

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