Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At night, and on weekends, he’s a serious sourdough bread baker—and an aspiring grain farmer. After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 136

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Exports fell and imports rose for vegetables, fruits, melons, and key food grains. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B What can be done: At 2022 prices, just 3.5-4.4

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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable. Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax.

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Farming Farming Acre Cattle 87

Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

planted nearly 50 million acres of wheat for the 2023 harvest, the largest acreage since 2016. That year’s winter wheat crop, which accounted for an average of 73% of total wheat acres, was the first crop planted after the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent wheat prices soaring. million acres.

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Acre Crop Grain Harvesting 70

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Agricultural Economics Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

harvested an estimated 340,000 acres of sweet corn – or just 0.5% of the area harvested for feed grain corn. Figure 1 shows the USDA’s NASS acreage estimates since 2016, which capture a notable decline of 138,000 acres, or 29%. Sweet Corn Acres, 2016-2022. In Wyoming, 11 farms produced 19 acres.

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Acre Processing Distribution Harvesting 98

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. Adequate moisture is particularly critical during the grain-filling stage.

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Yield Seeding Grain Crop Rotation 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. Consider this scenario.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

Food Tank

MAY 16, 2024

Last year, if you were on the Upper West Side and popped into Harvest Kitchen for a bite, you’d find a casual atmosphere and a sizable four-page menu of burgers, sandwiches, tacos, bowls, salads, and mains. During Earth Month, Harvest became the latest signatory to New York City’s Plant-Powered Carbon Challenge.

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Food Harvesting Harvester Harvest 132

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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Food Production Farmland Farming 78

Agwired

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

USDA is also creating the Commodity Storage Assistance Program, which will provide $140 million to help producers gain access to a packinghouse, grain elevator, or other facility necessary for the marketing of agricultural commodities. Jeff Nalley, the 2025 president-elect, is now acting president of NAFB through the end of this year.

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Harvesting Harvester Harvest Marketing 45

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. However, the farmers insisted on a lower cap so that more money could be spread around on more acres. “I

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. “It

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Grain Farming Farming Biofuel 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” 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. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 126

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

bushels per acre, down 1.3 Acres planted to corn, at 94.9 Area to be harvested for grain is forecast at 87.1 million acres, up 1% from last month and 10% more than was harvested last year. Area for soybean harvest is forecast at 82.8 million acres, is down 4% from last year. The average U.S.

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Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 45

Agwired

OCTOBER 13, 2023

bushels per harvested acre, down 0.8 Area harvested for grain is forecast at 87.1 million acres, unchanged from the previous forecast. bushels per acre, down 0.5 bushels per acre, down 0.5 Area harvested for beans in the United States is forecast at 82.8 Based on conditions as of Oct.

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Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 45

Agribusiness Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

On the drive, I reached out to my tenant farmer on my CRP ground near my home that would go into production next spring to find out if he was still doing harvest. He indicated he was and the field he was harvesting was right above our home and he invited me to come ride the combine. Another 15 miles is the Bluewood Ski Resort.

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Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA. You have this balance of grains to special vegetables.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvesting 105

ProAg

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the 2023 crop year, producers insured more than 35,000 acres of sesame with more than $9 million in liabilities. Producers will now be able to request written agreements anywhere sesame or similar crops such as cotton, wheat, and grain sorghum are successfully grown. The APH plan is specifically for clean, dry sesame.

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Crop Acre Grain Harvesting 59

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 121

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

He was scheduled to plant 500 acres of grain this spring and the contract was scheduled to go through 2028. We’ve been in contract with USDA for the last 12 months in order to produce these boxes and we’ve been planting, harvesting, weeding, packing in this effort. we receive about $6,000 a week for this produce.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 55

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. of carbon per acre annually. Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. That’s a big number!

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. Relationship-Based Land Stewardship Amy Scanes-Wolfe runs the 1.4-acre

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

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. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. The knowledge she learned ultimately led her to begin farming 40 acres of family land with partner Tanner Smith in 2020. (As population lives.”

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Cattle Ranching Farming Farming 113

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 140

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption. But in the Vaud, the fields were relatively small, a few dozen acres at most, and people were careful to plant fruit and nut-bearing trees alongside the edges.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Far Eastern Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

Featuring three models across Class 9 and 10+, the revolutionary combine series helps farmers cover more acres in less time with power, efficiency and throughput. Grain handling capacity is maximised and matched from header to spreader to harvest more with every engine hour.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Technology 40

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 141

ProAg

AUGUST 14, 2023

bushels per acre, up 1.8 bushels per acre, up 1.4 bushels per acre, down less than one bushel from 2022. Yield is expected to average 779 pounds per harvested acre, down 171 pounds from 2022. Average corn yield is forecast at 175.1 bushels from last year. NASS forecasts a record-high yield in Indiana.

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Production Yield Acre Crop 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. ” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Prevost tested olivine on his land last spring.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed Wolf to make more money than selling conventional grain—a lot more money. How much did you harvest? How much did you plant?

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Food Supply Chain Farming Farming 100

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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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is commonly measured as pounds of nitrogen applied per bushel of grain harvested. Revenue per acre after paying for the N is shown in column 5. In Figure 1, the cost of pound number 139 of nitrogen equals the revenue from the grain it produces. Let’s use corn as an example. lb N for urea and $0.52/lb

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Yield Acre Grain Farming 72