Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If As the farm’s output quickly grew, from 20 pounds of mushrooms a week to around 300, the leftover material quickly became a logistical problem to be solved. “In

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

With over a decade of experience, Cole has treated thousands of acres using herds of sheep and goats for ecological enhancement and fire hazard reduction across California. This platform aims to streamline logistics and communication within the growing contract grazing industry. Why is Cole Building It?

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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 Sitting in the middle of the country, the Delta has plenty of water and great logistics as well as rich soil. In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Ortiz sees GoFarm’s role as a hub that takes care of the logistics of supporting small farms and feeding the community. GoFarm’s incubator farmer program gives beginning farmers access to a quarter acre of land for the two-year duration of the program.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. investment doesn’t yet address a range of logistical issues that challenge—some might even say threaten—the success of seaweed production. For seaweed growers outside Maine, the logistics still have a long way to go.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

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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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

The 26-year-old started his journey with farming in high school and now grows okra, tomatoes, kale, and other Southern favorites on a quarter-acre in Nicholson, Georgia. million acres, a shift that drove up the price of the remaining farmland. The average cost to purchase an acre of farmland in Georgia is around $3,900.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 7, 2021

I'm going to put in tidbits of our conversation that I've not seen in newspaper articles because they help flesh out solar farm logistics. He was looking for 400-600 acres. He offered me a 30-year lease at about $1,000 per acre. He struck me quickly as a Sherlock Holmes type; quiet, observant, and thorough.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Solar developers and agriculture researchers from the University of Maine have been studying the issue for two years at this 12-acre, four-megawatt project in Rockport. At the end of the day, it’s not economical for a blueberry farmer to do dual-use at the moment because of the shading and all of these logistics,” Calderwood said.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. But, like others, he convened them at hotel conference centers where food, logistics, and setting were always an issue. From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. The following year it was solid weeds.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said. It takes about 1000 gallons of urine just to fertilize one acre of hay. But the greatest obstacle to making peecycling mainstream may not be logistic or regulatory at all. For Janiszyn, one drawback of using urine is that it is highly diluted.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

As committed stakeholders and beneficiaries of the farm bill, we cannot continue to wait for updated policies, provisions, initiatives and critical funding that support our collective interests. Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

White Bison Farm is located on 78 acres just outside of Laona, in the heart of the Chequamegon National Forest. The fact that the Food Hub is willing to do the logistics saves us so much heartache. Now the farm is providing high quality, nutritious food to the people in their community who need it most.

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Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We’re starting a pilot vineyard that is going to focus on stacking all those principles on 20 acres of a regenerative vineyard, with the goal to have that grow. Kendra continued to expound on Project Terra: “I mean, we’ve tried cover crops since 1993 and we’re still doing it, which blows my mind.

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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. Positive impacts can be made with just one or two adaptive grazing events per year on a given acre.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. A Legal and Logistical Maze Empire Electric’s contract with Tri-State dictates that the co-op is only allowed to generate up to 5% of its own electricity and must buy the rest from Tri-State.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm. Data on crop yields, harvest times, and transportation will allow for more efficient logistics and reduced spoilage.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Written by: Brakeley Bryant , Christian Kanlian and Jeffrey Landau May 11, 2023 Cities and their food supplies are facing stressors such as increased urbanization, climate change, extreme weather, a lack of varied production systems and seed genetics, labor shortages, and logistics delays. Raised beds at Dallas Half Acre Farm.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The couple provided pork produced on their 160-acre farm near Osseo for the effort during the program’s initial two months, but their small farm couldn’t keep up when the required demand was bumped up. “We The project is scheduled to begin this fall or early winter.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. In total, the anticipated cost comes out to millions of dollars—an imposing number for linen enthusiasts who mostly have separate day jobs and are working out the logistics in their spare time. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

In 2014, John Ng, with a background in science and a hunger for business, was inspired by the potential of aquaculture and purchased a facility and 120 acres in Greenport to begin his trout farming journey – HVF’s trout can now be found in a number of local restaurants as well as at farmers markets and retailers across the New York Tri-State Area.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life.

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