Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. After ending his service in 2006, Archipley and his wife established Archi’s Acres , an organic hydroponic farm that supplies basil and other specialty crops to local restaurants and stores. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse.

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Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 120

ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny. Conclusion Tractors, used responsibly, can turn more acres into productive, sustainable land, reducing food insecurity and improving the local economy in communities. Tractors require capital to purchase, rent, or borrow.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. The incentives were helpful.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. What are your company’s recent key milestones? and internationally.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Existing investors Entrée Capital, Jesselson, and Peregrine Ventures also participated in the financing round. The company’s solution has already helped execute more than 50,000 hours of autonomous farming activity across 150,000 acres of crops in California and Washington, USA. Source: PRNewswire.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Through the USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited decade-long Rice Stewardship Program , we have built a field team of partners who have worked on more than 1,000 rice farms spanning nearly one million acres, improving agricultural and environmental performances. Biolevel Ltd. ,

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Finance Supply Chain biotechnology Agriculture 40

Agwired

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) is providing a $998,784 Seeding Solutions grant to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) to quantify how adopting soil health practices can reduce the need for nitrogen inputs without sacrificing yield.

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Pesticide Science Supply Chain Technology 45

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Crop insurance, seed & chemical, biotech, AgTech, cooperatives, and other companies all use farm data to improve their existing services and offer new products. This increase in data collection and use has tremendously improved yields for the industry. However, it has also presented a new issue of data management and reconciliation.

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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. Once again, it mostly comes down to finance. “A If they put 80 acres in solar, they can make $50,000 a year. Here’s how the U.S.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. When you see founders who really want to change the world, they’re so rare,” says Galina Chifina of RTP Global, one of Plantix’s early venture capital investors.

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Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 103

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. He gets more pounds out of his acres than most farmers by controlling the smaller operation personally.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 108

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Their programs aim to deepen public understanding of the forces shaping food systems by focusing on corporate control, land grabs, people’s control of seeds, and food sovereignty as a solution to the climate crisis. The organization operates their Farmer Training Centre and community seed banks. food culture.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. The food system cant change overnight, but the flow of finance can, says Dharshan Wignarajah, CPIs UK Director.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rob-See-Co , an independent seed company located in Elkhorn, Neb. announced the establishment of its new forage division and the introduction of an advanced evaluation system, designed to amplify the value delivered to Every Farm, Every Crop, Every Acre. The new division will be led by Scott Harris, Forage Division Manager.

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Tractor Forage Supply Chain Manufacturing 59

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning. Leo and Judy moved to the Shenandoah Valley region in 1981.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

What Our Investigation Revealed Nearly all commodity corn farmers receive seed coated with neonics each season. Many cannot identify the chemical coating on their seeds and only opt for it because a seed salesperson recommends it. Evidence shows there are no significant yield losses from planting seeds without neonic coatings.

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Seeding Pesticide Yield Acre 145

National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

FSA is currently unable to offer pre-qualification or pre-approval services for farm ownership loans, yet this service is routinely offered by other lenders working with competing buyers for farm properties, which puts buyers who must use FSA financing at a disadvantage.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

Price Loss Coverage and Agricultural Risk Coverage The centerpiece of Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson’s (R-PA-15) farm bill is an increase in the reference price – or price floor below which a government payment is triggered – by 10-20 percent for commodities covered under PLC, including peanuts, rice, seed, cotton, corn, and soybeans.

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Farming Farming Processing Crop 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothersthird-generation Black farmersstarted a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and milo.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Acre 130