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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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.”

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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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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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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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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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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

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.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Without consistent water, it’s difficult for plants to use the fertilizers you put into the soil. It’s easy to think that early planting equals early yield and a longer growing season. Pests can shorten your harvest, cripple your plants’ production potential and double your garden chores. I’ve never grown a fall garden.

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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

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.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Synthetic fertilizers and genetic engineering are prohibited, among other measures. Then, once farms have been certified, there’s a yearly testing process, which dives deep into the farm’s yield and audits its books. “We What were the yields in a given week? How much did you harvest? How much seed did you purchase?

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes. On the next plot, they used less fertilizer but planted five crop varieties.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), However, a recent review of 25 commercial mycorrhizal inoculants concluded that only one of the inoculants resulted in higher yields.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil. He was specifically denied coverage for harvested crops grown in the grasslands. He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage.

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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. A producer recently shared some yield data from a replicated, on-farm trial they conducted (Table 1). lb N for urea and $0.52/lb

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. With the current high cost of synthetic fertilizers, and even supply chain disruptions, managing the manure resource properly becomes a critical farm task. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

We race around all winter getting ready and then all spring planting, all summer harvesting, all fall cleaning up, cramming these tasks amid all the computer and outreach work, the deliveries and farmers markets and all the hundred tiny farm emergencies and dramas that pop up each day.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2024

If done right, it should always be building fertility, not extracting it. Concentrations of minerals in cereal rye forage at several developmental stages when harvested at a 4-inch height. Nutrient removal is a function of not only nutrient concentration but also forage yield. Boot stage 3.8 Full head 2.2 Boot stage 3.8

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The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. They deposit their eggs, completing the cycle that will yield another generation of the silver fish that have been a cornerstone of the Pacific Northwest diet for generations.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Whether you have one acre or one hundred, polyculture can be implemented. This helps keep your land fertile over time without needing any fertilizers ! Plus, by implementing polyculture and planting several crops together at once, you can improve your soil quality over time and increase your yields.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Still in its research phase, the 86-acre project is operated by Ocean Rainforest, a company that aims to fight climate change by growing seaweed at scale: 1 million tons a year by 2030. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. 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. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. She does yield a few pages to sustainable farming practices, like soil management, though these are more buzzwords than insights. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 The main greenhouse gases emitted by U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. At another, a scientist presented research on a new class of nitrogen-fixing inputs.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. And that’s very hard to achieve.”

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