Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications.

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Crop Crop Rotation Farming Farming 59

Civil Eats

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yet despite the Act’s historical ties to pesticides—the discovery of DDT’s impacts on bald eagles was one factor that propelled lawmakers to begin protecting threatened species—officials in the pesticide office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are only now starting to figure out how to comply with the law.

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Pesticide Processing Seeding Food 98

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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Seeding Crop Farming Farming 82

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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Food Production Farmland Farming 78

Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications.

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Crop Crop Rotation Farming Farming 40

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

Agriculture 95

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 95

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

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. That’s the fight I’m in,” Balthazar adds.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 125

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Map of the Central Valley’s rural communities classified as disadvantaged communities by the California Department of Water Resources with <3,700 acres (5.8 We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. square miles).

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Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 113

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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. Sustainable practices, such as precision irrigation and fertilization, and reduced pesticide use, will be more widely adopted, leading to more harmonious environmental use.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 97

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We Tenants agree to not use any pesticides and allow the Wicklers access to the yard. She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. Can me and my husband buy land or afford land?”

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. fertilizer application, irrigation, machinery use, pesticide application) and the sources of carbon sequestration (e.g., reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). Consider this scenario.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Rodale Institute , proponents of regenerative organic farming, estimate that, for every acre of land farmed using plastic mulch, between 100 and 120 pounds of plastic ends up in the landfill or breaks down into a farmer’s field. million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags.

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Farming Farming Manufacturing Greenhouse 134

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water. This wasn’t always the case.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 125

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Grown in the Community, For the Community The Oneida Nation Apple Orchard is located on 34 acres, just outside of Oneida, Wisconsin. Orchard manager Heather Jordan works year-round to care for 4,443 apple trees, 120 chickens, and three beehives. Its really about health and community wellbeing.

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Food Distribution Orchard Production 90

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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Pesticide Marketing Seeding Fertilizer 145

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The trademarked Trecise application method means growers are able to use far less of the solution than a traditional pesticide. If you imagine the effect that had on the farmers, the number of actively managed acres in the state is probably half of what it was.

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Yield Acre Technology Pesticide 122

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers. Crops devoured by grasshoppers.

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Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Harvest 98

Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

resembling commodity agriculture systems based on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are systemic insecticides that are now used to coat corn, soy, and other seeds planted on hundreds of millions of acres across the country. Read More: US Groups Invest Billions in Industrial Ag in Africa.

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Pesticide Food Greenhouse Seeding 98

Modern Farmer

JULY 24, 2023

Inside Stone Road’s half-acre of greenhouses, says Corwin, the plants require much less than five gallons of water per week because they’re small, thanks to their two- to three-month lifecycle. The outdoor plants grown on his 57-acre outdoor farm, however, grow for four to six months and require much more water “because they’re massive.”

Cultivation 98

Cultivation Greenhouse Acre Pesticide 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Climate change, pollution, pesticides and habitat destruction are putting increasing pressure on pollinators, such as bees and butterflies. North Carolina began its Wildflower Program in 1985, and it now manages 1,500 acres of wildflowers along major North Carolina thoroughfares. Go beyond planting. Learn more.

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Pesticide Seeding Meadow Agriculture 137

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

And because they grow quickly with minimal resources—and without herbicides or pesticides—scientists point to their potential to help bolster nutritional security, hedge against disruptions in the food supply chain and even generate fresh produce on long-term space missions. acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 125

Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Drone technology company, DJI Agriculture has designed a new spraying drone, Agras T30 to cater to the needs of modern farming The technology displays a wide range of features including: 16 sprinklers offering full coverage: The Agras T30 is equipped with 16 sprinklers that provide a 9-metre spray width, allowing it to cover up to 40 acres/hour.

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Pesticide Technology Distribution Acre 59

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agroecology Yield Food Acre 99

Agwired

DECEMBER 21, 2023

bushels per acre in this year’s annual National Corn Growers Association yield contest with Pioneer brand corn product P14830VYHR. Hula crushed his previous world record of 616 bushels per acre set in 2019 with the Pioneer brand P1197 family of products. David Hula of Charles City, Virginia, set a new world record of 623.84

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Meadow Acre Pesticide Science 59

The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

The intense use of pesticides in the San Joaquin Valley has contributed to air pollution so much that the region is among the top three places with the worst air quality in the United States. Toxic chemicals from pesticides are in the soil polluting community aquifers, and they are almost impossible to clean.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 90

The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We need to transform agriculture from the current model of monoculture (where one crop like corn or soy is grown year after year) to systems that involve a mix of crops and avoid synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Agricultural research. NCA 5 specifically talks about research gaps and the need for increased investments in research.

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Food Farming Farming Supply Chain 129

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. million acres of organic certified land in the US. There are currently 8.3

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 98

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

EcoField data Inputs Soil type Tillage type Cover crop used Cash crop planted Fertilizer type Nitrogen application rate Irrigation used Crop drying used Pesticide category Machinery used Crop soil moisture Crop residue removal Nitrification inhibitor used Soil organic matter percent How does EcoField data work?

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Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. But the crop duster did.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 93

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Pesticide Stewardship Alliance (TPSA) is pleased to introduce a new logo and a revamped website. With the 25th anniversary of TPSA on the horizon, the new logo reflects a dedicated mission to pesticide stewardship and a revamped website reflects an ongoing commitment to a user-friendly experience.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 45

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

Agwired

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For farmers looking to cover more acres in less time, the AF11, which Case IH announced earlier this month, sets the bar in maximizing time in field. February is National Pesticide Safety Education Month and a time to review pesticide safety practices at your home or business, announces the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA).

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Pesticide Science Supply Chain Technology 45

UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the acres he’s transitioned to regenerative agriculture, Mestas allows naturally occurring cover crops to emerge between the rows of the agave, and then grazes livestock- including cattle, horses, donkeys and sheep- to further advance soil health. Today, about 250 acres of his 2,200-acre Guadalajara, Mexico farm is fully regenerative. “In

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 52