Real Agriculture

JUNE 17, 2024

In theory, that leaves plenty of land for growing food. That means the demand put on each acre. In theory, that leaves plenty of land for growing food. That means the demand put on each acre. Canada is a huge country with a relatively low population. Read More Canada is a huge country with a relatively low population.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 13, 2024

With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops. Used for cooking oil, processing foods, biofuel and protein for both animal feed and human consumption, it’s safe to say that it’s important to keep this vital crop protected from diseases such as clubroot, a.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Political leaders are recognizing that food is central to climate solutions. But thats changing now.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Tribal Elder Food Box (TEFB) Program started in 2021 with the goal of increasing access to nutritious, culturally meaningful foods for Tribal members over 55 years old. Since then, the program has distributed over 94,500 Tribal Elder Food Boxes. She sees the TEFB Program as a great example of how to improve the food system.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans. The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. The post US industrial agriculture at a glance appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 17, 2024

Unless you count volcanic eruptions out at sea (and we don’t), every year there are fewer and fewer acres available for growing food, building houses, or setting aside for habitat. The decision of what should be built where or how land should be used is a complicated, complex, and controversial topic. In this episode of.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

million acres of farm and ranchland across the country. Even more impressive is that the area covered by crop insurance has grown by more than 205 million acres since the 2018 Farm Bill was enacted, a 61% increase. And lawmakers are clearly succeeding – to the tune of 205 million acres in the past five years alone.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 13, 2023

The meeting of food production and solar power off the same acre has a name — agrivoltaics. While new, early adopters and research alike point to some real benefits of marrying power and food production, contrary. Read More The meeting of food production and solar power off the same acre has a name — agrivoltaics.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I’m particularly interested in Romaine because it is one of those foods that t urns up frequently in food poisoning incidents. The cost analysis, which concludes that it takes about $17,000 an acre to produce Romaine, does not factor in fmeasures to assure safety. Neither do I. But what it does consider is impressive.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. If you want to know about food for people , you can looik at Table 36. We should not be growing food crops to produce automobile fuel. For the full report itself, go here.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are reporting a record-breaking level of payments under the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) Forage Rainfall Insurance Program. Total 2023 program indemnities paid have totalled $60.4 million across SCIC’s 17 forage risk zones.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 18, 2025

I've been thinking about food, farm chemicals, RFK Jr., The MAHA movement and spotlight on autism especially are putting a lot of attention on food additives, food quality, ultra-processed food (now 75 percent of Americans' diet), and chemicals used on farms, from fertilizers to herbicides. and policy.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 16, 2024

Across the province, acreage for the entire oilseed crop typically checks in around 40,000 acres, with about one third of the crop being planted in the fall, the rest being spring canola. Over the past five year years, however, winter canola has been gaining momentum in. Read More Winter canola fields are popping up all over Ontario.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“Farmers are excellent stewards of the land and resources they use to produce food, fiber and fuel for their communities and the world. The USDA Economic Research Service reports the number of farmers and acres of land in farms is on a downward trend. had 2 million farms in 2022, down from 2.2 million in 2007, and the U.S. territories.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

The organization is working within communities to facilitate local land access and support strong local food systems. A lot of folks are retiring, Jean Theron Willoughby, Executive Director at Agrarian Trust, tells Food Tank. Willoughby tells Food Tank. And well keep growing our little one-acre market garden, Terry says.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most of Brazil’s jump in production is due to a 40% increase in planted acres for soybeans and 33% for corn. Demand for food will incentivize Brazil to plant even more acres, but there are logistical challenges at play.

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Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

Samples were collected from irrigation waters, soil, sediments, air/dust, animal fecal material, wildlife scat, and other sources across approximately a 54 mile (7,000 acres) area of the southwest growing region.” [ It’s about time the FDA did this ]. Here is food safety lawyer Bill Marler’s comment. Comment Foster dialogue?

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Growing season is still a few months away herebut with exciting festivals like Sundance and SXSW taking place in this first part of the year,lets think about this time as the season of food and environmental storytelling!

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. food system focuses on feed for animals and fuel for automobiles. of US farmland. Make them happen!

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales. Read More Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

By most measures, the Imperial Valley is not a great place to grow food. Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. As panelists discussed yesterday at the Action on Food Hub Pavilion, smallholders only receive about 0.3 Smallholder farmers nourish the world.

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SILT

APRIL 8, 2025

What began as a small, passionate group is now a growing force in Iowa, protecting over 1200 acres of land for sustainable farming and creating opportunities for new and beginning farmers to get a foot in the door. Social: Sustainable agriculture undoubtedly provides access to healthy foods, but it also promotes community building.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory. Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) Like on many reservations, the Hopi live in a food desert, where tribal members have to drive one or two hours to find a major supermarket in Flagstaff or Winslow.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. Americans now eat fast food one to three times a week on average. Between 1998 and 2023, our reliance on imported food has tripled. Cathryn Kennedy, food operations manager at the North Smithfield, R.I. But times have changed.

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ATTRA

MARCH 25, 2025

The Nebraska Farm & Food Economy report, released by the Center for Rural Affairs and Heartland Regional Food Business Center, provides a snapshot of the agricultural economy in Nebraska. Between 2017 and 2022, Nebraska lost nearly 2,000 farms and 1 million acres of farmland. However, farmers sold at least $16.6

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Food justice reporting has been a cornerstone of Civil Eats’ coverage since we launched 15 years ago. This year, we further explored how people are working toward food justice in their communities. We are committed to elevating the voices of people who produce our food, as well as those who are affected by its production.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A school gardening program in Texas demonstrates that hands-on food education can improve children’s eating habits in underserved communities, according to recent research published in the International Journal for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. acre teaching gardens. acre teaching gardens.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. human rights conference on food justice in Doha, Qatar.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Patrick Holden discusses how the centralisation of the food system has given rise to an atmosphere of paranoia about bacteria, which, in turn, is placing a disproportionate regulatory burden upon small producers and processors. After all, if something went wrong, thousands or even millions of people could get sick.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder Trisha Bates offers a variety of services focused on food education to help transform urban space into food production sites. Urban American Farmer hosts farming courses to increase consumer awareness about sustainable food sourcing and growing practices.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In northern Louisiana, the organization Shreveport Green is working to address shortcomings in local and regional food systems and ensure that communities have access to fresh, nutritious food. And according to Feeding Louisiana, there are severe gaps in food security for communities of color in northern Louisiana.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This was soon after the Zachmans founded Feathered Acres Learning Farm & Inn with substantial startup expenses. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members. They began adding cover crops on their fields to build soil health, helping reduce their need for added fertilizers.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Photo courtesy of Lindsey Beatrice “Our vision is a strong, resilient, environmentally sustainable and equitable local food system,” says Virginia Ortiz, GoFarms executive director. Founded in 2014, GoFarm started with its local food share program (essentially a CSA curated from multiple farms ).

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Food Tank

AUGUST 23, 2024

And food is central: Well-nourished children, of course, perform better in school, and building food literacy from a young age is transformative for kids’ understanding of empathy, sustainability, and health. When we give kids nutritious food to eat, we also have to make sure we answer their number one question: Why?

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In spring 2024 White Bison Farm was awarded a $15,000 contract to sell pork and bison to the Wisconsin Local Food Purchase Assistance (WI LFPA) program. Now the farm is providing high quality, nutritious food to the people in their community who need it most. One of our goals is to get good food to people,” Dave said. “We

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