Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

PLC triggers payments if the market price for a crop drops below a reference price that is established in statute, per eligible crop. The stated intention of both programs is to stabilize farm income and support agricultural producers facing the financial risks of volatile markets. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

This, she says, presents an opportunity for worker and community ownership, rather than just selling to the highest bidder on the speculative market. I think maybe a different path could have been taken that would have yielded much better for our society than the way we deal with private land and exclusion of people now, he adds.

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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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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 In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. Today Peebles has expanded to 2,000 acres, all organic. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

After reaching 2 million acres in the U.S. This year, Sound is accelerating market share growth for its products while driving meaningful change through an innovative grower incentive program, Efficient Acre. in just four years and continuing to grow rapidly, Sound is scaling its portfolio across new products and geographies.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDA released its September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports, influencing bearish corn and soybean markets. The national average corn yield estimate fell from last month to 15.13 Corn acres increased by a whopping 800,000 to 94.9 million, bumping total projected harvest acres to 87.1

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Agricultural Economics Insights

APRIL 28, 2024

bushels per acre, but it was also 3.8 Furthermore, national average corn yields for the last 10 year (since 2014) have been within a narrow range, just 9.8 corn yields. corn yields. corn yields since 1960 – a longer timeframe than the 2024 Corn and Soybean Yield Guide. In 2023, the U.S. Calculations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres. in 2017, and 78% of all cropland acres, up from 72%.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The latest USDA Crop Production Report surprised the industry by forecasting nearly 2 bushels per acre higher corn yields so late in the season. However, USDA also boosted demand estimates, helping drive a tamer market response. Corn yield is now projected at 174.9 bushels per acre. The larger acreage in the U.S.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. As part of a $20 million project led by the Kentucky-based nonprofit Accelerating Appalachia , Carbon Harvest will receive roughly $200,000 over two years to conduct research on the potential for a regional offset market.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Make sure to keys to successful farm management and factor in your financial goals and the market demand for your chosen products. Look into the local agricultural community, markets, accessibility, and infrastructure. They can help you navigate the market, understand property values, and identify potential issues. Is it fenced?

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 8, 2023

corn yield above 181.5 bushels per acre?” Each year we do a deep dive into historic corn yields to size up the trend-line yields and the range of possible outcomes. average corn yields since 2014: 2014: 171.0 After all, seven out of the last nine years have observed yields in the 170-bushel club.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shaken the market since its inception, and this weeks news of Chinas DeepSeek competing with US rivals such OpenAIs ChatGPT shows the revolution has only just begun. This has resulted in up to 25% yield increase in key markets.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 8, 2024

In farming, profit comes down to things we can’t control like the weather and the markets, and the things we can control like our management decisions. In part two of this series, I described the yield/input/profit paradox that leads many producers to over apply nitrogen, reducing their profitability in the process.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In Florida, where citrus greening has shrunk the orange and grapefruit yields by more than half , the department of agriculture and community services has approved a new treatment from Massachusetts-based Invaio. Within the first application, trees have shown an increased yield of around 30 percent.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. Most modern wheat is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety that does not produce roots as deep as many heritage types. The state also lacks infrastructure to market heirloom wheat to buyers and specialty millers.

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Agwired

MARCH 20, 2025

RFA commended USDA for its efforts to support climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and emphasized the importance of policies that empower farmers while ensuring a robust and efficient renewable fuels market. market entry, regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives.

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Agwired

MARCH 12, 2025

Nutrien Ag Solutions is excited to announce the 2024 winners of its Sustainable Success Champion program and acknowledge Dyna-Gro Seed customers who placed in national and company-based high-yield contests. SweetWater Technologies is proud to announce a powerful new addition to its crop input arsenal, DRONEZONE RECHARGED.

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 Bioscience announces positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (“HT”) traits in Camelina, which will help support grower adoption for the biofuel feedstock market by enabling weed control and increased access to acreage previously treated with Group 2 herbicides.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. Despite their efforts, Marchant’s River Berry Farm quickly lost upward of 10 acres of crops, with lettuce and summer squash suddenly swimming in the flooded fields. He watched its banks warily as a steady downpour soaked the landscape.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. Utilizing certified seeds offers tangible benefits, such as increased yields—often by 10-15% compared to non-certified seed. Overwatering can lead to disease issues and reduce yield.

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Agwired

MARCH 8, 2024

It was a year ago at Commodity Classic that Phospholutions introduced RhizoSorb® and this year they are ready to go full scale with a product that is the first proven fertilizer technology to reduce phosphorus use by 50% while preserving grower yields. “That’s huge with the impending 45Z low carbon fuels initiative. .”

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ProAg

OCTOBER 10, 2023

These improvements are part of a comprehensive effort to improve risk management tools and other programs for a wide variety of producers as well as expand access to organic markets. This is part of USDA’s commitment to reach underserved and underreached producers and to help producers access new and better markets.”

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the past few decades of production ag, we have been laser focused on high yields. The other day, while doing chores, Ag Talk was on the radio with the hosts discussing current markets and events. During the segment, they interviewed an analyst regarding the national corn yield average and how we were below trendline yields.

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Agwired

JANUARY 30, 2025

Farm Journal has entered a strategic partnership with Randy Dowdy and David Hula, lifelong farmers and founders of Total Acre. and into international markets, underscoring the importance of soil as the foundation of sustainable agriculture. Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The two-acre vegetable operation is owned by Nyland Cohousing Community, a 42-house community established with the aim of creating connection and supporting sustainable ideals. Solo full-time farming two acres is an insane thing to do,” says Waves of Grain co-owner Red Clifford , especially while also running a coop.

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ProAg

JULY 13, 2023

Wednesday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from USDA lowered corn yield estimates while bumping up acreage estimates. Corn yield estimates dropped to 177.5 bushels/acre, but USDA still forecasts a record corn crop at 15.32 billion bushels. Read more on the latest WASDE report here.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. Of the Midwest’s overall acres, 75 percent are covered by corn and soybeans.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As well, changes in temperature make it harder for plants to photosynthesize, so crop yields are dropping. Mustard yields are way down The global mustard market is worth about $6.87 Last year, farmers in Canada planted close to 555,000 acres of mustard seed, producing 161,781 tons, primarily in Saskatchewan.

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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. million acres. One such way to yield progress is through the creation of an Office of Small Farms within the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 3, 2023

After an initial push to attract new growers and expand the number of acres planted, and with support through the BC Hazelnut Renewal Program launched in 2018, hazelnut production is steadily increasing. The new varieties from Oregon have proven not only blight resistant but also higher yielding. Photography by Peter Andres.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. He and his wife Nancy own a 150-acre grass-fed beef farm and use a rotational grazing method. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

acre community park located in Seattle’s Central District. ” Before the farm’s destruction, it was healthy and thriving, yielding lettuce, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, and other foods. acre urban farm managed by the Black Yield Institute (BYI) on city-leased land, received an eviction notice in spring 2021.

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