Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Land access was the first step. Still, its taken decades for the practice to spread.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 28, 2024

When Peter Gleick moved to California in the 1970s, the state had more than a million acres of cotton in production and little control over the use of its rapidly depleting groundwater. We’re now in a world, I believe, where the water laws and the markets that encourage farmers to do certain kinds of things are no longer appropriate.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MAY 3, 2024

By becoming a part of Acres’ growing network, users can unlock rural land insights. The post Acres’ California Farmland Values: A Data-Driven Analysis – Telling the Story Behind the Numbers appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Tillable

JULY 22, 2024

Rankings: Top 10 States with the Most Land Ownership in 2024 The average acres owned by a landowner varies dramatically across states in America, reflecting the unique characteristics and historical factors which influence land ownership among individuals and families. What do you think this map shows about rural land ownership in America?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Small and midsized farmers are being forced out, with consequences for rural communities. million acres. That “ratio” changes from place to place.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. Ethanol represents about ⅓ of the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. “We want to reinvigorate the community and revive Loleta’s dairy legacy.”

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The farmland market is an important indicator of an operation’s financial strength. Historically, farm values have held steady in the face of economic turbulence, making them an effective risk management tool during market fluctuation. million acres of U.S. million acres). In comparison, China owns 347,000 acres.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs , more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. If youre working in an urban space, you probably dont have acres and acres to play with. However, urban farming doesnt come without its challenges.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ryan Mason transitions a successful urban farm operation back to his rural roots in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. Through his studies, Ryan participated in a global exchange program in rural Mexico, living and working with a campesino (small farming) community. He ended up having to till under several acres worth of crops.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

farmland market has remained remarkably resilient for the last several decades—but will it last? But with fewer government payments and a softening commodity market, landowners might be wondering what this means for the future of farmland prices and cash rents. What Should Farmers Expect as the Farmland Market Softens?

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. And its not just our farmers and ranchers who are affected, its their local communities scattered all across rural America that have decayed right alongside them. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Accelerating Appalachia has launched an innovative program to support underserved farmers and expand regenerative farming across Central/Southern Appalachia and the rural Southeast, including Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Southeastern Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Northern Georgia.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Photo credit: Sanctuary Farms This month, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced more than $300 million in awards to 50 projects focused on increasing underserved farmers and ranchers’ access to land, markets, and capital.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

These are small businesses in rural communities. He was scheduled to plant 500 acres of grain this spring and the contract was scheduled to go through 2028. There are many small businesses, from excavating companies to plumbers, engineers, and suppliers that will also be impacted and they may not even know it yet.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

The exhortation by Benson and Butz for farmers to “get big or get out” finally came to fruition, with the average size of a farm nearly doubling from 650 acres in 1987 to 1,201 acres twenty-five years later. As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 19, 2023

The agricultural carbon market is generating buzz across the heartlands. In rural Oklahoma, producers are asking how “carbon farming” works and, importantly, who benefits. Blaney has been navigating carbon markets for more than a decade. The voluntary carbon offset market is booming in the wake of the Paris Climate Accords.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Twice a month, Catherine Withers heads to market two miles away in Bedminster, to sell her wares, much as her family have done for generations. Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. I do care passionately about this existential threat to the family dairy farm.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Using tractors increases productivity and efficiency, leading to bigger harvests, better quality produce, and access to lucrative markets that require a larger volume of products. As women earn more, they can reinvest in their businesses by buying more equipment, diversifying their crops, or improving how they market their products.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

The extra income can also help offset the unpredictability that often comes with commodity markets. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

They expect land in Alaska to be cheaper, even close to major markets. For farmland near the largest markets in Alaska—the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage—Autry says, “We’re looking at fair market values per acre of $25,000 to $40,000.” Often, Autry has to dissuade them. In Florida, it’s $7,300. Fairbanks farmer Brad St.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Critics of this approach will likely argue that it would require too much labor and take too many acres to grow cover crop seed. We’ve been chasing that rabbit for decades and it has hollowed out the heart of rural America.

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Agwired

MARCH 12, 2025

million through the Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program , a partnership among Michigan State University, the Michigan Plant Coalition, and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD). Four new research and outreach projects have been funded with $5.1

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. The state also lacks infrastructure to market heirloom wheat to buyers and specialty millers.

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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.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. Early 20th century agriculture was labor intensive, and it took place on many small, diversified farms in rural areas where more than half the U.S. population lives.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Envisioning farming as hyper-specialized, where specializations only converge in a marketable product, misses critical aspects of farming knowledge. This sort of production could make it possible for more diverse farmers to succeed, and for a greater variety of products distributed into local markets.

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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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 15, 2024

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs include the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program, which makes payments to farmers when the average market value of a commodity (such as corn, soybeans, cotton, and peanuts, but excluding fruits and vegetables) falls below a price floor, or “reference price,” that is set in the farm bill.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

As above, it is likely that some rural communities will be classified as disadvantaged through the CEJST. Market research shows 50% of farmers would be interested in such loans if an interest rate reduction was included. However, reforestation projects account for just 4.15% of the forest acres on these registries.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Given how few farms are using it, there are still many questions about limitations—like the absence of cell service in some rural areas, farmer acceptance , accuracy, and ongoing costs —but buzz about virtual fencing’s applications continues to grow.

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