Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Begin by assessing the purpose of your landwhether it's for crop production, livestock grazing, forestry, or a combination of activities. Farm Land Checklist What are the tillable acres? Consider your short-term and long-term objectives, such as increasing your current land or finding and setting up a new farm , etc.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

They both have extensive lived experience as land stewards, as well as deep multi-generational connections to agriculture and forestry stewardship. My tribe has control of two million acres on the books, but really we only have about a million acres accessible to our people. From these observations, we adapt our practices.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says heat and drought adversely affected yields in the state’s early harvest efforts, leading to abysmal 10 to 12-bushel-per-acre yields. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 tonnes per year, not zero.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The institute boasts an impressive research infrastructure, including a spacious 4,800-square-foot laboratory within the Pace Seed Technology Laboratory, as well as a five-acre proving ground named "Autonomous Acres" located at MSU's R.R. Foil Plant Science Research Center.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. million tons of offsets purchased by Microsoft in fiscal year 2021–22, for example, were tied to forestry initiatives. (A .” “You can tell I just don’t care about that anymore,” RiCharde says with a laugh. agriculture.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) released A General Assessment of the Role of Agriculture and Forestry in the U.S. The National Wheat Yield Contest announced the achievements of its 24 national winners, hailing from 12 different states, who have achieved an average yield of 144 bushels per acre across all categories.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MAY 24, 2024

million acres of oak that could be severely damaged or killed if infested with spongy moths, which would greatly impact the state’s forestry economy. Surveying helps MDA monitor for spongy moths and allow its team to pinpoint locations if the insects were to enter Missouri. The Show-Me State has approximately 12.5

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The pilot program will pay producers $100 per acre or animal unit for voluntary adoption of climate-smart practices that deliver more than that amount in public environmental benefits. The initiative will help agriculture and forestry — the largest private sector industries in Virginia — continue to thrive.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist! It can be summarised as follows, water is the thermostat of the blue planet, water vapor turns up the heat and water in the ground or in vegetation turns down the temperature.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024, S.5335 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Evan Flom, Campaign Communications Manager National Young Farmers Coalition press@youngfarmers.org, 518-643-3564 ext. 742 Washington, D.C.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. 22-caliber shells he’d purchased online from a forestry supply store in Colorado. By the end of the decade, an estimated 300 acres of western Washington were dedicated to holly.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. AAS: How are wetlands being threatened? STACY WOODS: The US has lost half of its wetlands since its founding. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4

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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. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country. The stream had dried up because it had been deforested. There was a lot of burning in this area.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Snapshot of a page of the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Mitigation Activities List In addition to reducing tillage, increasing the presence of plant matter through other means can also accomplish parallel increases in organic matter. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, the state and the federal government agreed to return more than 1,000 acres to the Onondaga Nation. For its part, the state of New York has been working recently to improve its relations with Indigenous nations. It’s also about a category of technology that could find its way into the world,” he said.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Through their One Million Acres for the Future Campaign , they are calling on Congress to make a historic investment in the equitable access of 1 million acres of land for the next generation of farmers. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6

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Sustainable Harvest International

JANUARY 25, 2022

Collaborating with a local forestry university, UNACIFOR , four interns completed internships with SHI-Honduras, studying reforestation, agroforestry, and solid waste management. acres with 1,970 native tree species and put another 4.5 acres of forest into conservation. Learn more here.

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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. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 13, 2023

principal forestry program manager for the Napa County Resource Conservation District , which provides technical and financial support to the community and educates people about being better stewards of the land. Most of the 340-acre ranch is undeveloped, and Morison purposely kept it that way for 25 years. “My

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are systemic insecticides that are now used to coat corn, soy, and other seeds planted on hundreds of millions of acres across the country.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. factory will begin early next year on a 400-acre site in San Antonio, Texas. The construction of the 720,000 sq.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 In addition to increasing farm productivity, public agricultural R&D investment also supports improvements in natural resources and forestry management, helps advance rural development, and enhances food safety and quality.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). The bill adds 4 new Centers of Excellence at 1890 Institutions, with a focus on climate change, forestry resilience and conservation, and other topics. The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 was recently introduced by U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2025

Forest Service lands are "exhibit A" for terrible forestry management. And they have tons of birds, amphibians, wildlife flourishing even while they have more cattle per acre than the mainstream. Nothing about government owning land versus private ownership makes it handled better. What a travesty. Here in the east.

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Agwired

APRIL 5, 2024

Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (CO-08) recently announced a bill to address the impending transfer of over 370 million acres of farmland in the next two decades. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. These projects in turn can save farmers money, create new revenue streams, and increase productivity.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Outreach to Black landowners, others who are underserved The Johnson family is raising cattle on about 15 of the 200 acres they own near Lexington, Mississippi. During long spells without rain, the grass dries up and the Johnsons have to buy hay.

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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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