Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. million acres of the Central Valley. A lot of their bees were dead, or sick.

Harvesting 93

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Orchard 93

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” But it’s not quite that simple.

Food 98

Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 98

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

Farmland 128

Farmland Food Farming Farming 128

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability.

Cultivation 121

Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 121

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. That was never the focus of hospitals,” he adds.

Pasture 141

Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 141

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The free, online cost studies model a management scenario for a 100-acre farm, 20 acres of which are planted to a mature orchard that produces apples for processing.

Processing 40

Processing Orchard Acre Fertilizer 40

Modern Farmer

JULY 11, 2023

Plumblee oversees about 7,000 acres in the central San Joaquin Valley, growing navel oranges, valencias, mandarins and even some lemons and grapefruits. There’s no sign of HLB in the Booth orchards yet, and Plumlee aims to keep it that way. California is home to roughly 300,000 acres of citrus production across the state.

Orchard 98

Orchard Acre Yield Ranching 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Despite experiencing a spring with no rain, he has persisted and is increasingly finding markets for his nuts.

Pasture 101

Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 101

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 11, 2023

From her test orchard in Clarksville—25 acres of diverse cherry trees—she began breeding to address the primary threats. Iezzoni wants to get certain cherry cultivars into the market, even if it’s just a cherry tree here and there, in peoples’ backyards. “If She remembers a breeding class coming out to the Clarksville orchard.

Orchard 98

Orchard Crop Processing Cultivation 98

Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The group then moved up the slope, in between the small orchard and vineyard. They’ve taken a somewhat experimental approach in the orchard to see what grows best, and found that jujubes, apricots, and pomegranates thrived while apples and chestnuts didn’t do well due to the heat of the region and plums were too susceptible to disease.

Orchard 52

Orchard Farming Farming Construction 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A daytime sleep schedule can curb quality time spent with loved ones, as well as limit when wares can be sold or traded in local markets. to beat the heat, collecting milk from their buffalo and preparing products to sell in the market during the dusky hours of the morning. We are not working at night, said Rabari.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 73

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He notes that farmers are then subject to the whims of a global market, which tends to skyrocket in price during geopolitical conflicts. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. The ratio of fungi to bacteria depends on the plants, explains Robb.

Farming 144

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. million acres of the Central Valley. A lot of their bees were dead, or sick.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. million acres of the Central Valley. A lot of their bees were dead, or sick.

Orchard 52

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. million acres of the Central Valley. A lot of their bees were dead, or sick.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Orchard Acre 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The 260-acre ranch butts up against the West Elk Mountains, four miles east of the West Elk Wilderness, almost smack-dab in the middle of where gray wolves could be released this winter. One partner rejuvenated the old apple orchard, planted another 120 heritage-variety trees and started a cider business. “A

Ranching 112

Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 112

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Today, following many years in both the landscape design/build business, while also raising and marketing 100% grass-fed beef and registered Angus breeding stock, I’ve learned some more about soil science. That knowledge didn’t come from the plant science and landscape design course of study I continued in at Cornell University, though.

Soil Science 93

Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 93

Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We are the sort of farm that it’s essentially impossible to insure in a system aimed at commodity agriculture because we just grow so many crops, all in small amounts compared to five thousand acres of wheat or a thousand acre apple orchard.

Crop 52

Crop Greenhouse Farming Farming 52

Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 5, 2024

Throughout our years of navigating both the financial and ag markets, we’ve learned a thing or two when it comes to farm finance. Land Purchase Read how this fruit orchard operator used a $60MM custom loan package to expand their operation, plant 50 acres of new trees, and increase profitability.

Finance 52

Finance Farming Farming Ruralism 52

Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

It's often used in greenhouses and nurseries, but it can also be used in vegetable gardens, flower gardens , orchards and even trees. The most common diameter is 1/4 inch; however, you can also find 3/8-inch or 1/2-inch sizes on the market. 5 acre) of water spread across several acres worth of crops!

Crop 52

Crop Acre Crop Yield Distribution 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We were in the parking lot of Island Center Forest, a 440-acre wooded park home to miles of hiking trails and one large pond where birdwatchers flock. Student lab assistants traversed a 20-acre section of the 300-acre park, treading in straight lines regardless of topography, up and down steep inclines, over and under downed branches.

Ecology 127

Ecology Seeding Acre Processing 127

ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are 60-acre landfills that are being filled up with rice hulls,” he said, “so we set up to try to find a greener alternative.” If you can instead turn it into products that give you heat, electricity, and water filtration, we make more selling our biocarbon into the environmental remediation market than they do from the rice.”

Production 40

Production Orchard Technology Construction 40

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. That’s been a valuable lesson for me.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

Water Rights 52

Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. If the most recent decade is a guide to the future, he says, the district can only expect to receive enough water to grow crops on about 300,000 acres in an average year. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Distribution Acre 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. ” Torres and a group from the new union rented their first small piece of land near the Canadian border, and sold berries to local food co-ops and markets.

Greenhouse 52

Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Maximizing Photosynthesis: The #1 Soil Health Building Approach B y: Chuck Schembre , Understanding Ag, LLC In the previous regenerative orchard blog, we discussed the connection between perennial crops and soil fungi , and introduced the importance of maximizing photosynthesis on the orchard floor. Historically in the western U.S.,

Orchard 72

Orchard Seeding Crop Acre 72

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Milking the Market Given the current state of the U.S. Their got a minute?

Farming 129

Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 129

Civil Eats

APRIL 10, 2024

Kelsey Keener, 36, oversees a few thousand Novogen laying hens on his 300-acre Sequatchie Cove Farm , nestled alongside the Sequatchie River at the tail end of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, about 30 miles outside of Chattanooga. Photo credit: Sarah Unger) Mauldin of Wheeler’s Orchard was similarly frustrated and skeptical. “It

Food 112

Food Orchard Distribution Farming 112

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” That’s the promise that AcreTrader , a company with the mission of simplifying investing in valuable U.S.

Farmland 145

Farmland Real Estate Orchard Water Rights 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

With more than 95,000 acres devoted to mango production in 2021 (roughly 1.5 an hour for his work in the mango orchards. In addition to selling in Mexico, they export to the United States and, to a lesser extent, Europe, something only growers of their size—with at least 250 acres of land—can typically afford to do.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Plantation Harvesting 52

Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. It’s about learning how to follow market trends. But that is absolutely the wrong thing to do.

Ruralism 142

Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Farmland 142