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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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. From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

sales of Ag tractors decreased 14.2 By bringing businesses such as agronomists, truckers, and custom harvesters—into Bushel’s payment network, farmers and agribusinesses can now avoid the hassle of traditional checks and ACH delays, achieving near real-time payments tailored specifically for agriculture. percent compared to 2023.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. One of ALBA’s farmer partners driving a tractor. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization. Rojas said recently in Spanish.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. Grape harvest photo courtesy of Dodon.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.” So, after harvesting, sheep will go to work. “To

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

About five years ago my wife and I bought a 200 acre ranch located in SE Washington state (about 40 miles west of Idaho and about 15 miles north of Oregon). My wife took a video of me on the tractor. It took exactly two hours to do the 8 acre field and now I am back to working on those pesky tax returns.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic. Large farms have other means of curing onions, but there was a gap for the small farm on how to harvest and dry onions with fewer steps while using minimal storage space.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. 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.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. megawatts of DC power.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 8, 2024

It’s where farmers buy seed and fertilizer for the summer’s crops, and where they seek tips to maximize their harvest of corn and soybeans. He and his brother-in-law raise corn and soybeans on the 500-acre farm where Haglund grew up. They try to solve their own problems, whether it’s a busted tractor or a debilitating bout of anxiety.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms. But the Innovation Challenge is about more than just tractors.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company, which already works with more than 20 of the leading permanent crop growers in the US, will use the funds to further scale its agricultural autonomous tractor and farming solutions, and expand into new markets worldwide based on its successful track record. The global market for autonomous tractors is due to reach $11.5B

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms.

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How much did you harvest? For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Take mass balance fraud: A producer gets an organic certificate for 100 acres of grain and begins selling grain for those 100 acres. But inspectors look at the books and realize the yield sold is much closer to 200 acres.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

During the time before the fire got to their property they used their tractors and implements to make 10-12 foot wide fire breaks around the exterior of their property. They made real time decisions on abandoning certain crops and focusing instead on trying to save longer harvest season crops such as peppers, tomatoes, and dahlias.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm. But through cooperation, determination and community, they pulled through.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.”

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. It would take a couple years and likely a million bucks to make that change.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

We race around all winter getting ready and then all spring planting, all summer harvesting, all fall cleaning up, cramming these tasks amid all the computer and outreach work, the deliveries and farmers markets and all the hundred tiny farm emergencies and dramas that pop up each day.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C.,

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

13.50: Each application of pepper spray for pests costs the Dykemans, who calculate many expenditures by acre, about $150 per acre. Two charcoal filters, $400 apiece, protect operators in this John Deere tractor ( $67,000 in 2008), which takes $130 of diesel. But This Pumpkin?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Crop prices plummeted and interest rates on operating loans which farmers take in the spring to pay for inputs like seed and fertilizer, then pay back after harvest were over 20 percent. Galen and Linda had been under tremendous stress since they took over the 160-acre family farm.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2020, he went back to northern Iowa and joined his father in farming 500 acres of corn and soybeans. Why It Matters Neonic-treated seeds are planted on approximately 90 million acres of corn fields and more than 40 million acres of soybean fields each year. This is true. has barely budged in its approach.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.

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