Agwired

JANUARY 24, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is investing $207 million in renewable energy and domestic fertilizer projects to lower energy bills, generate new income, create jobs, and strengthen competition for U.S. These acres are conservatively estimated to sequester more than 7.5

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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. Matters are much the same in the US.

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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. They try to solve their own problems, whether it’s a busted tractor or a debilitating bout of anxiety.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A refrigerated tank pulled by a tractor comes to the field at the end of milking and hauls all the milk to the farm’s bulk tank where it is picked up by a dairy processor. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. All the milking is done by hand, with each guy milking 20-25 cows.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. 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.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. Across the country, millions of acres of farmland have been lost over the last 30 years, due to development and other forms of land conversion. What is a fertilized egg? This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability.

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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). However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure. Direct seeding provides the best seed-to-soil contact and opportunity for establishment.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Viva Farms is a nonprofit that helps new and limited-resource farmers with access to land, equipment and more, and this site is home to 18 incubator farms and a half-acre student farm. The benefits include trapping heat for faster growth, retaining fertilizer and suppressing weeds. Plastic mulch is made out of polyethylene, or PE.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Synthetic fertilizers and genetic engineering are prohibited, among other measures. For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Take mass balance fraud: A producer gets an organic certificate for 100 acres of grain and begins selling grain for those 100 acres. It’s also not cheap.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. If they put 80 acres in solar, they can make $50,000 a year. But that would take 80 of my grazing acres away.” Here’s how the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards. American Milking Devons Make Great Cheese and Milk, Work the Land American Milking Devons were the “trucks and tractors” of American farms before the advent of the internal combustion engine. That work is meticulous, complex, and strategic.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

Last year (2019) was the first year we started using fields that had so much time out of production, and it was amazing how much more fertility those areas had. In 2019, it was over my head while I was sitting on the tractor! More rocking cover crops—in 2014, this field only grew rye that reached my knee.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

This year’s nominations–submitted by people like you–overflowed with inspiring stories of change-makers who are innovating, giving back and working to make our soils more fertile for the next generation. Just when things were looking up, California’s worst ever wildfire season showed up at their farm’s door step.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

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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.

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