Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey results, published today by the U.S. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4

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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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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

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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.”

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower. 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. Why is Cole Building It?

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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 They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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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. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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