Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont., The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

Acre 246

Acre Tractor Yield Harvesting 246

Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2024

There are about 85,000 acres of potatoes on Prince Edward Island and every year an increasing number of those acres are planted to winter wheat after potatoes are harvested in September and October.

Crop Rotation 317

Crop Rotation Acre Harvesting Harvest 317

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.

Harvesting 236

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 236

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 Harvesting Harvest Harvester 119

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

Acre 278

Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 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

Acre 290

Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 290

Western FarmPress

JUNE 7, 2024

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

Harvesting 116

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 116

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

Harvesting 230

Harvesting Harvest Harvester 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.

Industrial Agriculture 290

Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 290

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.

Harvesting 119

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 119

Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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

Harvesting 116

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 116

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.

Harvesting 100

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 100

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.

Harvesting 98

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Acre 98

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.

Harvesting 116

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Food 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.

Food 305

Food Acre Harvesting Seeding 305

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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

Harvesting 119

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Crop 119

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.

Farmland 111

Farmland Farming Farming Food 111

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

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.

Seeding 140

Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

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.”

Harvesting 145

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Aquaculture 145

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.

Seeding 116

Seeding Acre Harvesting Harvest 116

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

Agriculture 288

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

With three to four bushel per acre. With three to four bushel per acre. Read More

Yield 290

Yield Acre Crop Harvester 290

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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

Yield 116

Yield Harvesting Harvest Harvester 116

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 Harvesting Harvest Harvester 111

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 ].

Compost 299

Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

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

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.

Harvesting 103

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Agroecology 103

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.

Farming 249

Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

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.

Farming 87

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

ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

state to complete soybean harvest in 2023. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5. Read more on soybean harvest in Louisiana here. The post Louisiana Completes Soybean Harvest, Battles Exceptional Drought appeared first on ProAg.

Harvesting 59

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Forestry 59

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.

Acre 102

Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 102

Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Perpetual rains have kept several Michigan growers from harvesting soybeans.

Acre 93

Acre Harvesting Harvest Harvester 93

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

An early corn harvest is well underway in Iowa. However, excellent genetic traits boosted what could have been a dismal harvest. USDA predicted Iowa corn yields to be about 200 bushels per acre. Read more on early corn harvest in Iowa here. The record statewide yield average was 204 in 2021.

Yield 59

Yield Harvesting Harvest Harvester 59

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

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one. They can use climate gauges and weather information for more accurate planting and harvesting insights.

Farming 96

Farming Farming Technology Yield 96