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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

The weakest prices in over three years, combined with prospects of another drought, are expected to put a dent in canola acres as cropping decisions for 2024 are finalized. Unfortunately for those on the selling side, grain and oilseed markets have been posting losses like the Ottawa Senators or Columbus Blue Jackets rather than Jonathon.

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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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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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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 24, 2024

Why, a pulses market outlook, of course. Why, a pulses market outlook, of course. This week, Chuck Penner of Leftfield Commodity Research, was a keynote speaker at the Northern Pulse Growers Association AGM. Shaun Haney hosted RealAg Radio from the meeting, and that gave the pair a chance to talk.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

After rolling through a boom and bust cycle over the past few years, the oat market is searching for stability in both supply and demand heading into the 2024 growing season. Record high prices and seeded acres in 2022 led to a dramatic decline in prices and production in 2023. Acres are expected to increase. Read More

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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ProAg

JULY 14, 2023

corn acres, Brazil could be unseated as the top exporter of corn. this marketing year, National Corn Growers Association Lead Economist Krista Swanson says it could be a short-lived lead. this marketing year, National Corn Growers Association Lead Economist Krista Swanson says it could be a short-lived lead. Drought in the U.S.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

These include: Soil health transition loans that can be structured to support grain farmers through the 3-to-5-year process to adopt practices like no-till, cover crops, and efficient fertilizer and herbicide use which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon. But we cannot do it alone.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.”

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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. She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. To grow that much alfalfa would require about 100 acres of land with about 50,000 gallons of water every day, he estimates. But it comes at a great cost to the region’s water supply.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. Founder Colby Frey likes to call himself a “whiskey farmer,” because all of the grain used in Frey’s bourbon is grown on-site at the ranch. There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides. Photo submitted.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips.

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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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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

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