Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sowing High-quality, certified seeds are essential for uniform germination and disease resistance. Utilizing certified seeds offers tangible benefits, such as increased yields—often by 10-15% compared to non-certified seed. Seeding rate: The recommended seeding rate for winter wheat ranges from 1.2

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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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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

farmers, but some farmers and grain suppliers would welcome them. “I farmer would be delighted to have a market where they would get paid more by providing an identity-preserved, (non-GMO) crop,” says Lynn Clarkson, CEO of Clarkson Grain , a leading U.S. shifted 180,000 acres (0.2 I think the U.S. supplier of non-GM corn.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. So, the program pays a farmer $55 an acre to grow their cover crops to at least 12 inches; at 24 inches, they receive an additional $20 per acre. This doesn’t just create problems in local drinking water wells.

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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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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

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

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Rodale Institute , proponents of regenerative organic farming, estimate that, for every acre of land farmed using plastic mulch, between 100 and 120 pounds of plastic ends up in the landfill or breaks down into a farmer’s field. million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags.

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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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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. These trees have good bolting, they’re strong and their seeds are excellent genetic material. The Old Forester distillery team planted a five-acre tree nursery in support of Earth Day this past spring.

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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 seed did you purchase?

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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.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. There aren’t good numbers on adoption rates because seed companies are guarded about how much they sell.

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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. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop. That’s a big number!

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. The incentives were helpful.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre. Some of the different practices we use include: diverse crop rotation, cover crops, intercropping, low chemical use, biological fertilizer and seed treatment, soil amendments, and livestock incorporation. Why farming?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. Jason Brown is testing basalt powder on his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina.

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Agribusiness Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

They are located in Iowa and farm 4,000 acres of which they own 1,000 acres worth $10 million with no debt. The farm had the following assets at the time of death: Grain in the bin not sold $4 million (650,000 bushels of corn and 50,000 bushels of beans), Farm equipment worth $1.5 1 million grain facility worth $1.5

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 24, 2024

In 2023, many of the grain-producing states received below-normal rainfall. Do we look for more adaptive seed traits, and more technology? Do we look for more adaptive seed traits, and more technology? In 2023, Christmas was beautiful, but Christmas in 2022, the windchill temperature was 30 degrees below zero.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” Siewicki incorporates all of these hard-learned lessons into his teaching and coaching.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

DLF , the worldwide market leader in forage and turf seed, announced its acquisition of the Corteva Agriscience alfalfa breeding program effective September 1. agricultural trade policy objectives reflect public and private-sector interests in the global seed marketplace. USDA estimates soybean planted acreage fell 4.6

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Last April, Montana took a notable step in promoting good soil practices by designating an official Healthy Soils Week.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A recent survey by the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) found that an added 10.5 million acres of cover crops will be planted in the next five years as a result of USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart-Commodities projects. The partnership entails customer referrals between the two companies for their respective services.

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Agwired

JULY 5, 2024

More than 8,500 acres in the Myakka and Peace River watersheds will now be preserved forever thanks to the Florida Cabinet’s approval of two conservation easements at its meeting today. The American Seed Trade Association elected its 2024-25 officers at the 2024 ASTA Leadership Summit, which took place in Nashville, Tennessee June 15-19.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

BeeHero , the pioneer of data-led precision pollination, introduced their Pollination Insight Platform (PIP), a plug-and-play in-field sensing solution that leverages AI-powered analytics to measure pollinator activity in seed, row, and specialty crops to subsequently improve pollination and increase yields. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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Agwired

JULY 26, 2023

based Stine Seed Company announced its expansion into Canada. Initially launching in Ontario, the following retail businesses — all of which are affiliated with The Agromart Group — will sell Stine soybean seed: Alliance Agri-Turf, Harvex Agromart, Lakeside Grain & Feed, Scotland Agromart, Southwest Agromart and Sprucedale Agromart.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Nayak is recognized for her innovative approach to engaging farmers in demand-driven rice seed systems, from testing and deployment to access and adoption of climate-resilient and nutritious rice varieties. wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat. million to $370.9

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. It would take a couple years and likely a million bucks to make that change.

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Agwired

AUGUST 25, 2023

Over 1,200 exhibitors will display and demonstrate products and welcome thousands of visitors to the 100-acre show site. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new members of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) for Trade in Grains, Feed, Oilseeds, and Planting Seeds. The conference, U.S.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Through the USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited decade-long Rice Stewardship Program , we have built a field team of partners who have worked on more than 1,000 rice farms spanning nearly one million acres, improving agricultural and environmental performances. Biolevel Ltd. , Biolevel Ltd. ,

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

But in both scenarios, the Syngenta Cleaner & Greener fungicide portfolio still showed excellent performance and improved yields over untreated acres. For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest. In the last five years, 2020 was the driest summer and 2021 was the wettest.

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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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Agwired

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Grain Stocks report. SAH), a major subsidiary of Sakata Seed Corporation , announced the grand opening of its new headquarters, the Sakata Woodland Innovation Center. Old crop corn stocks on hand as of Sept. 1, 2024 totaled 1.76 1, 2023, according to the U.S.

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