Real Agriculture

MARCH 11, 2024

Acres of corn and soybeans are expected to be similar to last year, while wheat and canola area is expected to drop slightly, according to Statistics Canada’s acreage estimates published on Monday, March 11. Canadian farmers will be planting more pulse crops, oats, and durum in 2024. Most of the estimates were within the range.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 24, 2025

Ag Marketing IQ: Biofuel and feed demand back off, the specter of stagflation rises for investors, and traders watch export shifts and drought conditions in Brazil. Stocks dynamics could spur corn rally if only to curb grower shifts to record planting of that golden grain.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Jon Driedger of LeftField Commodity Research to discuss the grain markets; Sara Shymko with Agriculture in the Classroom Saskatchewan on Acres for Education campaign; Hear a product spotlight with Patrick Langille with Helena Products Group on Resurge; and Hear a clip… Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Jon Driedger of LeftField Commodity Research to discuss the grain markets; Sara Shymko with Agriculture in the Classroom Saskatchewan on Acres for Education campaign; Hear a product spotlight with Patrick Langille with Helena Products Group on Resurge; and Hear a clip. Read More

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms. Pete Larson on his farm.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

India is nearly half-way through a six-week election period, and the government there is making sure it stays in the citizens’ good graces. That, in part, may have driven the decision by India to further extend a dropped tariff on imported peas out to October. Chuck Penner, founder of Leftfield Commodity Research, says that India.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 14, 2024

Flory, host of AgriTalk, says the USDA’s move to knock off 700,000 acres of corn and add a million soybean acres does make sense, but. Flory, host of AgriTalk, says the USDA’s move to knock off 700,000 acres of corn and add a million soybean acres does make sense, but. Read More

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 23, 2024 Corn prices are down, and acres in Texas and across the U.S. AgriLife Extension grain marketing economist in the Texas. Read More → The post Corn crop conditions improve as acres and prices decline appeared first on AgriLife Today. Mark Welch, Ph.D.,

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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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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 Across produce items, the US was or became a net importer of all 5 of the top vegetables by 2021. What can be done: At 2022 prices, just 3.5-4.4

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

PLC triggers payments if the market price for a crop drops below a reference price that is established in statute, per eligible crop. The stated intention of both programs is to stabilize farm income and support agricultural producers facing the financial risks of volatile markets. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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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 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JUNE 30, 2023

USDA released a few big surprises in the June acreage report, including a spike in corn acres and a large reduction in soybean acres. The agency also forecasts grain stocks below trade expectations.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. Still, its taken decades for the practice to spread.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 28, 2024

Grains end mixed with strong gains in corn in reaction to USDA's 90 million acre estimate and lower than expected stocks. But how much higher can corn go? Garrett Toay, AgTraderTalk, shares his thoughts.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres. in 2017, and 78% of all cropland acres, up from 72%.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. She has over a decade of experience in food and agriculture policy reform and market development. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. The number of U.S.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2023

Farmers across Canada may have planted slightly more canola and wheat than expected, if Statistics Canada’s acreage estimates prove to be accurate.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The two-acre vegetable operation is owned by Nyland Cohousing Community, a 42-house community established with the aim of creating connection and supporting sustainable ideals. It was a serendipitous moment that helped inspire Waves of Grain to use its resources to establish an incubator farm.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

Jeff Hoogendoorn, Professional Ag Marketing, says corn may trade range bound until more is known about the weather for the 2024 planting season, but with only 90 million acres planted it will be sensitive to any issues.

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Trimble Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

Soybeans Soybean plantings are predicted to fall by nearly three million acres in the 2023/2024 marketing year. A competitive market is placing downward pressure on soybean prices. Wheat Planted acreage of wheat was down last year, but is expected to stabilize in the 2023/24 marketing year. per bushel in 2023/24.

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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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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 Alaska, 14 farms raised a total of three acres.

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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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

government as it tries to get Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn declared in violation of our trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, arguing that it cuts farmers’ export markets and sales revenues. farmers who shift to premium non-genetically modified (GM) corn markets as international corn prices fall?

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

But the grain surpluses incentivized by the Wall Street Farm Bill led to subsidized cheap feed, giving rise to the sorts of industrial factory farms that make up the Hog Baron’s empire. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

But now, people outside the industry are paying attention to how crops are grown, as an increasing number of food companies, grain buyers, and consumers seek ingredients grown using sustainable practices. And with increased attention on agricultural practices are increased market opportunities for agribusinesses and grain growers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Photo credit: Sanctuary Farms This month, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced more than $300 million in awards to 50 projects focused on increasing underserved farmers and ranchers’ access to land, markets, and capital.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the creation of new programs that will help farmers who grow fruits, vegetables, and nuts overcome market barriers for their products, and help producers access necessary pre-market storage for their crops following severe weather events, including recent hurricanes. 14, 2024, U.S.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. Of the Midwest’s overall acres, 75 percent are covered by corn and soybeans.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2023

Endorsing Individuals: Michiel Bakker – VP Global Workplace Programs, Google Amelia Ekus – Director of Innovation, ISS Guckenheimer Marcus Horril – Research and Communications Officer, University of Oxford Toni Gam – Marketing and Communications Manager, Grains and Nutrition Council Kristin Gutekunst – Beans is How Project (..)

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. The total nitrogen requirement for wheat can vary, but it’s often in the range of 60 to 120 pounds per acre. Adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium are typically maintained at 15-30 pounds per acre of P2O5 and K2O, respectively.

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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. Unlike the U.S.,

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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. system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. That was never the focus of hospitals,” he adds.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 19, 2023

The agricultural carbon market is generating buzz across the heartlands. Blaney has been navigating carbon markets for more than a decade. The voluntary carbon offset market is booming in the wake of the Paris Climate Accords. Many are tribal members, nearly all farm less than 100 acres. Morgan Chase. Who Is Profiting?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The market for grass-fed beef continues to grow. The use of land for grazing cattle, as opposed to more productive crops or carbon-sequestering forests and prairies, is a key issue for critics of the beef industry—and grass-fed cows require more land than those finished in grain in feedlots. But emissions may not tell the whole story.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability.

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