Ohio State University

MARCH 18, 2024

One number that is concerning to agricultural stakeholders in Ohio is the loss of 931,089 acres in land in farms in Ohio in the last twenty years. According to NLCD, 355,085 acres of agricultural land in Ohio was lost between 2001 and 2021. The new 2022 Census of Agriculture data shows the number of farms in Ohio declined by 2.3%

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Pasture 119

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze. The fire burned right around them,” says the 73-year old rancher and owner of Diamond B Ranch, noting the intact areas—some as big as a quarter acre. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Plantation Pasture Ranching Acre 106

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. Trisha has traveled to Washington, D.C.,

Farming 122

Farming Farming Ranching Pasture 122

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 126

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 107

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. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive. Davis Med Center.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 116

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. However, the farmers insisted on a lower cap so that more money could be spread around on more acres. “I

Crop 122

Crop Farming Farming Acre 122

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. This program helps growers cover their increased costs for feed, destocking, depopulating or other actions which can be incurred during dry periods.

Forage 98

Forage Pasture Acre Production 98

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore farms 800 acres, half of them are his, the other 400 acres are rented from two different landlords. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage. On his silage acres, he is testing herbal leys which do not need to be fertilised. The pastures are a curlew nesting area and protected.

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Pasture Cattle Farming Farming 114

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance. We keep all our own replacement heifers out of the stocker group,have fenced in another 100 acres and no longer hay our farm.

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Pasture Acre Farming Farming 95

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 115

ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 104

Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years. Kari currently manages the farm’s 20 acre hay field for rare grassland birds, including meadowlarks and bobolinks. When they purchased the farm, the front 40 acres were planted in corn. The field was very skewed towards men.

Acre 98

Acre Farming Farming Pasture 98

Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 2, 2024

million acres, down from its 2007 peak of 36.7 million acres in 15 years, a 44% decline. million acres, an 11.8% Each dot denotes a 1,000-acre change. The General CRP enrollment, the original program, accounted for just 37% of total program acres, or 8.4 million acres, at the end of 2023. Change in U.S.

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Acre Pasture Crop Production 67

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. A clover crop interseeded into pasture. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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Pasture Crop Farming Orchard 117

ATTRA

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Regenerative Grazing Program offers producers $50 per acre to implement managed grazing with regenerative outcomes: enhanced soil health, improved ecosystem biodiversity, and increased carbon sequestration. Participants will also submit a soil sample from each enrolled pasture.

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Pasture Acre Livestock Crop 40

Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. Eric spent months refurbishing his grandfather’s various farm buildings—and putting up new ones—to house hogs and make the most of nine acres. “I He and his wife Mikala transformed the property and now raise pigs with their two young children.

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Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.” Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures.

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Farmland Ruralism Acre Real Estate 110

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Payne said it’s likely he’ll make more money on 30 acres of chestnut trees than he would on 300 acres of row crops like corn. The question isn’t really, ‘Is silvopasture scalable?’” Orefice said.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 90

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. This program helps growers cover their increased costs for feed, destocking, depopulating or other actions which can be incurred during dry periods.

Forage 52

Forage Pasture Acre Production 52

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. Situated in the Wisconsin northwoods, Dave and Jodi Cronauer raise Idaho Pasture Pigs, American Bison, and Gypsy Vanner Horses on their farm and they manage the Idaho Pasture Pig Registry. Our meat is nutrient-dense.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 52

Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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Greenhouse Pasture Crop Arable Land 98

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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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 123

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 130

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This is correct, but what they don’t factor in is the inter-relationship between the emissions from those same grazing animals and the pastures they eat, which, if correctly managed, can be a major source of carbon sequestration. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Farming 112

Farming Farming Pasture Acre 112

Todays Farmer Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

This University of Missouri Extension survey captures information on land sales that have occurred in the calendar year, including those for crops, pasture, timber, recreational and hunting land. Respondents of the 2023 survey said they expected land prices to increase in 2024, particularly in the western region of Missouri.

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Farmland Acre Pasture Ruralism 52

ATTRA

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In one of eight tailored programs, Grow Your Edges Silvopasture Incentive Payment Program , CRCL is offering incentive payments of $250 per acre for livestock producers to plant trees on pastures to expand Missouri woodland area and provide shade for livestock.

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Livestock Pasture Acre Crop 40

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Food Pasture Livestock Agriculture 134

Tillable

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Lease by Acre Type: Make data-driven decisions to optimize land investment Our new ‘Lease by Acre Type’ feature lets you lease out your farm based on acre types like irrigated, dryland, and pasture. Now, you can better understand the revenue and ROI for every acre type.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Pasture 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” I was so excited. Things started working.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 119

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers who have no livestock in their system have a limited number of tools…With the addition of livestock, there is the potential for perennial pastures, perennial hay, annual forages, and grazing crop residues, reducing tillage and increasing the return of carbon to the soil,” Paine tells Food Tank.

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Livestock Food Agriculture Agriculture 119

ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. acres of corn and 10 acres of hay to feed them. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests.

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Farming Farming Acre Rural Development 89

National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 22, 2024

They’re also leasing 100 additional acres of land for organic hay production which Tessa says is to “bolster food security for our herd so that we can bolster food security for our community. Farms and raising 15 calves, the most they’ve ever raised in a season.

Pasture 98

Pasture Farming Farming Acre 98

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. Steward works to keep track of everything by sectioning off her acres with electric fencing and moving her cattle in time with seasonal changes. So, she’s learned how to build her land back up.

Ranching 74

Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 74