Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres.

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Agwired

JANUARY 31, 2024

Agriculture technology innovator Terra Vera announced the launch of Brawndo TS, a portable system that utilizes the company’s proprietary biomimicry solutions for protecting crops and delivering nutrients – without harmful chemicals and synthetic fertilizers.

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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. More Acreage Protected With Cover Crops Cover crops are planted to protect the soil and provide nutrients, rather than planted for harvest. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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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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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This year, downstream companies participating in N-OVATOR ’s insetting partnerships made payments to reward Pivot Bio growers for their practice change following the 2023 harvest. In total, the growers in this insetting partnership replaced over 10 million pounds of synthetic fertilizer.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Corn requires lots of nitrogen, and it’s by far the most commonly used fertilizer in the United States. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Harsh chemical fertilizers disrupt natural soil networks made up of plants and fungi. In the past 150 years , half of the world’s fertile soil has disappeared. Instead of synthetic fertilizers, regenerative agriculture works with nature to maintain healthy soil ecosystems. In nature, everything leans towards balance.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires linked to human-caused rises in global temperatures and changing weather patterns are decimating harvests of essential food crops around the world, driving a crisis in global hunger never before seen in the modern era. Amy Concilio, an associate professor of environmental science at St.

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

About five years ago my wife and I bought a 200 acre ranch located in SE Washington state (about 40 miles west of Idaho and about 15 miles north of Oregon). We fertilized our alfalfa this morning and then I decided to go out and harrow the field. Today’s post has nothing to do with taxes.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. But Klemm says he sees a decent harvest even in dry years.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. His farm is also working to reduce tillage—a practice that can lead to soil erosion. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While it is always difficult to break down every cost of planting, maintenance, and harvest in a year, the landowner, Timm Johnson, has attempted to do that for 2021 and 2022. All plots were treated the same in terms of custom planting, herbicide, rolling (on soybean ground), fertilizer, and land rent. pounds of phosphorous per acre.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist When I began to see how unique the growing conditions in my high tunnel are compared to open-field growing, I started to think differently about how to maintain soil health and manage soil fertility for high tunnel growing and season extension. High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

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 billion in payments to agricultural producers and landowners enrolled in all CRP programs, and more than 23 million acres of private land in the US was being conserved.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. fertilizer application, irrigation, machinery use, pesticide application) and the sources of carbon sequestration (e.g., reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). Consider this scenario.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

However, with ingenuity and creativity, Christopher set out to reinvent the farm’s way of producing organic rice by transforming their farm to a niche system that provides a value-added product to their farm. Additionally, being such a novel method of farming in the U.S.,

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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. Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. That’s a big number!

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Daily Yonder

JULY 8, 2024

It’s where farmers buy seed and fertilizer for the summer’s crops, and where they seek tips to maximize their harvest of corn and soybeans. He and his brother-in-law raise corn and soybeans on the 500-acre farm where Haglund grew up. Maybe the weather is perfect for planting or harvesting.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

By: Florence Reed , Founder + Director of Sustainable Harvest International With the war in Ukraine, the global food crisis looms large, given that Ukraine is a major global exporter of both wheat and chemical fertilizers. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Adding a cover crop adds a new inflow, and it’s more likely that a portion of that carbon will stay in the soil if that cover crop is not harvested. Fertilizers and animal manures are a special case, because whether the ultimate result is net positive or negative depends on how they are managed. Can you guess what it is?

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.” The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Inspired by Wendell’s Manifesto, I wanted to instill the place with the contradiction embodied in his poem.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Without consistent water, it’s difficult for plants to use the fertilizers you put into the soil. Pests can shorten your harvest, cripple your plants’ production potential and double your garden chores. I had initially attributed this to a lack of calcium in the soil, but the real culprit was inconsistent watering.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. It’s treated, in most cases, with conventional fertilizers and pesticides, and is harvested, processed and made into cloth using huge machinery.

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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.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization. Now, the couple are in the process of expanding to 5 acres.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Above those temperatures, heat stress causes cattle to produce less milk and decreases their fertility. He said there are currently only two acres of fruit trees the cattle use for cover.

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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. 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. Johnson felt called back to the land in 2010 after living in California for 18 years.

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

But in both scenarios, the Syngenta Cleaner & Greener fungicide portfolio still showed excellent performance and improved yields over untreated acres. For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest. In the last five years, 2020 was the driest summer and 2021 was the wettest.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll. Jason Brown is testing basalt powder on his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 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. They yield very high,” Carlson said.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby.

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