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. And when nitrates are present, it’s inevitable that other contaminants, such as pesticides , are also polluting the water. However, the farmers insisted on a lower cap so that more money could be spread around on more acres. “I

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice. plastics policy.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

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

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. There will be thousands of acres chirping with thousands or tens of thousands of animals and in two weeks, you will go map it, and theyre gone. This uncertainty has led to some bureaucratic contradictions.

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Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 92

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

But for now, to offset flood risk from rising water levels, the State Water Resources Control Board has agreed to send more than 600,000 acre-feet of water (pretty much what Los Angeles consumes in a year) to areas where it can soak into the ground and replenish the aquifer beneath the San Joaquin Valley.

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 96

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. If they put 80 acres in solar, they can make $50,000 a year. But that would take 80 of my grazing acres away.” Here’s how the U.S.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. As a result of this tech boom, yields the amount of corn and soybeans produced per acre increased steadily. Its not overly reductive to say it boils down to a half century of intentional federal farm policy.

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Food Crop Processing Tractor 60