Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Despite back-to-back years of drought, harvested peanut acres in Texas are up over 2022. Production was still a struggle as 13,000 to 14,000 peanut acres were lost to dry, hot conditions.

Acre 119

Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 119

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities.

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Acre 236

Real Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

Here in North America, the growing season is short and the harvest season shorter. As farms have become larger, the need to combine more acres at a faster pace has become a priority. Read More Here in North America, the growing season is short and the harvest season shorter. Introduced at Ag in. Introduced at Ag in. Read More

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 278

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For Manitobans, it looks more like December than November 1 out there, but at least harvest is done. For Ontario, however, so many thousands of acres of corn are now very wet and covered in snow, and. For Manitobans, it looks more like December than November 1 out there, but at least harvest is done. Read More

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 290

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass. Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season,… Read More

Harvester 230

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 230

Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans. The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph. This is industrial agriculture at a glance.

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Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 290

Western FarmPress

JUNE 7, 2024

Extension specialists weigh in on wheat planted in the Delta as farmers prepare for harvest 2024.

Harvester 116

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 116

AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

According to USDA’s final crop progress report of the season, 96% of corn has been harvested — a 3% increase from last week.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 119

AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

According to USDA’s crop progress report, 93% of corn has been harvested so far – an increase 5% from this time last week.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 100

Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Planting and harvest progressed full throttle for Arkansas's 1.41 million rice acres.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 116

Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Every now and then I run across a report about something I know absolutely nothing about but wish I did, and this is one of them—an analysis from the University of California on Sample Costs to Produce and Harvest Romaine Hearts Lettuce. Bill Marler, the lawyer featured in the film, does not eat bagged Romaine. Neither do I.

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Food Acre Seeding Harvester 305

Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It is not a banner year, but Michigan Sugar says it expects between 30 and 31 tons per acre, with 16.7% sugar content, when harvest is complete.

Harvester 98

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 98

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This Syngenta seed company sells Golden Harvest hybrids using a different marketing strategy than the norm. Read on to learn more.

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Seeding Acre Harvester Harvest 116

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Over two centuries, hundreds of thousands of acres were cleared to establish rice plantations, shaping the Southern economy and landscape.

Plantation 120

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 120

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Three out of every 10 acres have been combined so far this fall.

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Crop 119

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Vegetables, Potatoes, and Melons Harvested for Sale: 2022 and 2017 All of this is in miserable-to-read tables. It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I just wish we could have harvested what we worked so hard to grow.” From drought to an October hailstorm, producers discuss how the weather has wreaked havoc on their cotton crop. "I

Acre 111

Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 111

Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. Roa believes that SHI is “on track” but she notes that they need more partners to get them there.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 116

Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cameron Terry of Garden Variety Harvests is one farmer who faced difficulty in finding farmland. And well keep growing our little one-acre market garden, Terry says. Photo courtesy of Garden Variety Harvests The post A New Path to Sustainable Farming: An Agrarian Commons Model appeared first on Food Tank.

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Farmland Farming Farming Food 111

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) His harvest looks unique, too. But his vision far surpasses his nine acres.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 139

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

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. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.;

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 10, 2023

growers eyeing winter wheat acres in Fall 2024. E-Corn-Omics: What that could mean for U.S.

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Yield Harvest Harvesting Harvester 116

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 Harvester 70

Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Perpetual rains have kept several Michigan growers from harvesting soybeans.

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 93

Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

Samples were collected from irrigation waters, soil, sediments, air/dust, animal fecal material, wildlife scat, and other sources across approximately a 54 mile (7,000 acres) area of the southwest growing region.” [ It’s about time the FDA did this ]. coli O157:H7 ” [ blaming wild birds for contaminating leafy greens is not going to work ].

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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 This could be accomplished by approximately doubling the amount of land currently harvested for these crops. of US farmland. of US farmland.

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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Aquaculture 145

ATTRA

MARCH 1, 2025

.” The report’s 13 authors identified the resource needs of key species that live among the state’s approximately 500,000 acres of rice fields, including snakes, birds, and fish.

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Straw Science Acre Harvester 52

Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

What impact could this have on abandonment and harvested acres, and ultimately price? Cotton Spin: La Nia conditions are expected to persist through April, with a 60% chance of El Nio-Southern Oscillation during March through May.

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 102

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) championed the program amid the decline of the sugarcane industry, spurring about 200 acres of kava cultivation by backyard growers and commercial farms, according to Johnston. Harvesting awa requires leaving the corm and lateral roots intact. Still, U.H,s per pound of cherries.

Food 123

Food Plantation Acre Production 123

Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America.

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Agroecology 103

AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s been said high-yielding corn needs 25" of moisture per acre per year. In 2023, when Mother Nature didn't cooperate, management strategies to retain moisture coupled with new traits made a difference at harvest.

Technology 125

Technology Seeding Acre Yield 125

AgWeb Farm Journal

DECEMBER 11, 2023

West Texas is the largest cotton production area in the country, but after battling drought and heat, area farmers say the dryland crop is a failure, and the irrigated acres are only yielding half of normal.

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Crop Acre Harvest Harvesting 114

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cotton Spin: While the abandonment rate remained the same, USDA cut yield per harvested acre across nine states in their September WASDE report. Learn more, plus other adjustments reflected in this week's report.

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Crop Acre Yield Harvester 105

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142