Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

percent of farms offering both agritourism and direct-to-consumer sales (such as through U-pick, farm stands, and farmers’ markets) were under 100 acres. One, it helps with the harvest. They invested in a mechanical harvester a few years ago. “In The majority of those farms are small, however— 63.3

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 112

Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Grow Dat is a seven-acre urban farm with 13 full-time adult staff, and a rotating crew of teenagers who work there after school. The farm’s adult and youth staff grow and harvest a variety of produce—satsumas, kale, carrots, okra, cherry tomatoes and basil—from the fields, fruit trees, and a memorial garden.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. HARVESTING Harvest wheat when it reaches the optimum maturity stage.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest.

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Orchard Farming Farming Harvest 52

Caff

JULY 19, 2023

the Lopes provided a great demonstration of the unique equipment involved in the establishment of the rice (rice flat tray machine) and the transplanter machine (used to mechanically transplant the rice plugs into the field) allowing the attendees a great visual of the process and commitment involved in establishing their rice paddy fields.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. Far from it.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Planting and Harvesting Potatoes are typically planted in spring once soil temperatures reach 10°C (50°F), a benchmark for promoting uniform sprouting and robust early growth. Harvest timing depends on variety and climatic conditions, with maturity generally reached in 90–120 days. The effects of soil type on harvest include: 1.

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Harvesting Harvester Harvest Cultivation 94

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. In late July 2020, he was driving a 1971 International Harvester 1066 tractor—which did not have an ROPS or a seatbelt—with a trailer near the edge of a bumpy road before sunrise.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 138

The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. In 2019 alone, there were 27 million pounds of coho harvested for consumption in the U.S. What mechanism is at work between 6PPD-quinone and the coho? According to Tian, several questions remain.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Its scientific submission to the USMCA secretariat cites 74 human and animal studies describing the mechanisms by which the weed killer causes, for example, genetic damage to hematopoietic stem cells in human bone marrow, which can lead to blood cancers like non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 31, 2025

Most of the orchard workers were Jamaicans who are granted entry to the country through the governments H-2A visa program for just a few months each year during harvest season. Theyll end at the UFW union hall at 40 Acres, where grape growers gathered in 1970 to sign their first UFW contracts.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

Intensity Intensity includes both stock density (pounds of animal per acre during an individual grazing event) and the degree of forage utilization. However, we would not want to repeat these disruptions in the same manner on the same acres on a regular basis. We want to mix things up.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

At 60,000 acres, the proposed pool could swallow entire Florida cities. Eventually, the reservoir was whittled down to just 10,000 acres. You’re unlikely to come up with the domain of Big Sugar: the Everglades Agricultural Area, that 700,000-acre swath of farmland just south of Lake Okeechobee. Two companies—U.S. Sugar Corp.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Deadly clashes on the Great Plains prompted the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , which created the Great Sioux Reservation spanning 60 million acres around the Black Hills. In Montana, for example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes now oversee 18,000 acres where bison roam once again. billion acres across the U.S.,

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Acre Food Mechanics Forage 144

Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2025

A Short Tapping Season Is Now in Flux Maple syrups producers, or sugarmakers, are dependent on a single product harvested in a window of just a few weeks every spring. If it’s all condensed into this few number of days, if anything goes wrong, mechanically or climate-wise or weather-wise, that can have an impact on production.

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