Acre Finance Manure 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent.
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The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. Interestingly, the huge machine trade show hall featured only one chipper and not a single manure spreader. But they are now.
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.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. Matters are much the same in the US. In 1987, that figure was 15 percent. Do such proposals challenge free trade? Yes, they do.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. In a recent paper on crop insurance and finance in agriculture you wrote about rural politicians from both parties scrambling to prop up widely unpopular farm subsidies. Photo provided by Hamilton.
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. Once again, it mostly comes down to finance. “A Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it. It sounds easy. It’s anything but.
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