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

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

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. acres are reserved for vegetables.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 120

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. Furthermore, to enroll in ARC or PLC, a farm must have base acres enrolled with USDAs Farm Service Agency (FSA), which administers the programs, as one of these covered commodities. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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Farming Farming Acre Farmland 64

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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Acre Crop Farming Farming 103

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres. While fewer farms were enrolled compared to the 2017 Census (which reported 380,236 farms with insurance), the total acres covered actually increased by more than 10 million.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. Utilizing certified seeds offers tangible benefits, such as increased yields—often by 10-15% compared to non-certified seed. Overwatering can lead to disease issues and reduce yield.

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Yield Seeding Grain Crop Rotation 52

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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Grain Farming Farming Food 135

Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Between the Fencerows: Farmer figures 21,000 feet of drainage upgrades and repairs add about 6 acres of productivity.

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Yield Grain Acre Production 52

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

MAY 8, 2023

corn yield above 181.5 bushels per acre?” Each year we do a deep dive into historic corn yields to size up the trend-line yields and the range of possible outcomes. average corn yields since 2014: 2014: 171.0 After all, seven out of the last nine years have observed yields in the 170-bushel club.

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Yield Acre Crop Grain 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

While rice can grow well in a paddy, especially compared to other cereal grains , there is a limit to how much water the plant can bear and for how long. More than six million farmers are growing the [submergence-tolerant] rice, and they have a 60-percent yield advantage in some places in the world, such as eastern India,” says Ronald.

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Family Farming Acre Grain Greenhouse 130

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

DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. As Emma Fuller at Fractal Agriculture pointed out, “at the current rate, it’d take us 90 years to achieve cover crop adoption on 50% of corn and soy acres in the U.S.”

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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 130

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the past few decades of production ag, we have been laser focused on high yields. During the segment, they interviewed an analyst regarding the national corn yield average and how we were below trendline yields. In 2023, many of the grain-producing states received below-normal rainfall. So, what are we supposed to do?

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Yield Technology Crop Farming 103

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is commonly measured as pounds of nitrogen applied per bushel of grain harvested. A producer recently shared some yield data from a replicated, on-farm trial they conducted (Table 1). To make a fair comparison, we need to account for the cost of N and the yield differences. Let’s use corn as an example. Using a $4.50/bu

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Yield Acre Grain Farming 72

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Squash flowers produce large, spiny, starchy pollen grains,” says Cane. Where I live in North Carolina, growers with large cucumber and squash farms rent honey bees at a cost of $100 or more per hive and require 1-2 hives per acre during each season. It’s clear that crop yields are higher with better pollination.

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Crop Yield Yield Crop Pesticide 138

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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Grain Farming Farming Biofuel 52

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. A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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 Acre Greenhouse Farming 124

Agwired

OCTOBER 13, 2023

1, corn yields are expected to average 173.0 bushels per harvested acre, down 0.8 Area harvested for grain is forecast at 87.1 million acres, unchanged from the previous forecast. 1, soybean yields are expected to average 49.6 bushels per acre, down 0.5 Based on conditions as of Oct. bushel from 2022.

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 45

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

corn yield is forecast at 173.8 bushels per acre, down 1.3 NASS forecasts record high yields in Ohio and South Carolina. 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. bushels per acre, down 0.8

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 45

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

ProAg

AUGUST 14, 2023

Average corn yield is forecast at 175.1 bushels per acre, up 1.8 NASS forecasts a record-high yield in Indiana. Soybean yields are expected to average 50.9 bushels per acre, up 1.4 Soybean yields are expected to average 50.9 bushels per acre, up 1.4 all wheat yield is forecast at 45.8

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Production Yield Acre Crop 52

ProAg

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Pomegranate: Beginning in crop year 2023, pomegranate producers in select California counties can receive yield-based insurance coverage for standard weather, natural, and environmental perils as well as quality losses. Coverage is available for two varietal groups: “Early” and the ‘Wonderful’ varieties and all others.

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Crop Yield Farming Farming 105

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

ProAg

JULY 14, 2023

corn acres, Brazil could be unseated as the top exporter of corn. The acreage increase could help offset lower expected yields while surpassing Brazil’s smaller crop expected for 2023-2024. Grains Council Vice President Carey Sifferath says domestic ethanol production can limit exports while Brazil ramps up their ethanol production.

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Acre Grain Yield Production 52

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. What were the yields in a given week?

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Food Supply Chain Farming Farming 100

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

According to the techno-optimists, hacking photosynthesis by genetically modifying rubisco, the enzyme found in all plants that turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into starches, proteins, and other nutrients will allow us to radically increase rice yields in Asia. Photo submitted.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number.

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Manure Farming Farming Production 107

Agribusiness Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Our home is at about 2,000 feet of elevation and we have about 40 acres of pasture, etc. We met up with the Quad Trak that was pulling the 925 bushel grain cart and that driver went to get another truck (the two drivers were their son and son-in-law) and she hopped in the Quad Trak to drive it for the remaining time to harvest that field.

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 52

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.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

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

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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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

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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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve visited 10 farms, most of them several hundred sheep on more than 1,000 acres. One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. As soon as the lambs can quit drinking milk replacer, they go on grain to grow as fast as possible. The ewes get hay and grain too to keep their body condition up and make them cycle fast for rebreeding.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52