Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. Distillers today are just the stewards of their distillery, the forest, everything.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. We found that when these natural elements were included in croplands, and also for forest plantations, that species abundance and species richness can be similar. A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

million acres of shade-grown coffee, much of it bordering protected natural areas. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. The agriculture department backs up this recommendation with technical assistance. That help is working: 96 percent of the coffee grown in Mexico is now shade-grown.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. With roughly 230 acres, the farm is relatively small, says Simkin, but “with pigs you can still work at scale, have a viable business and provide excellent animal welfare”. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Grow Dat is a seven-acre urban farm with 13 full-time adult staff, and a rotating crew of teenagers who work there after school. They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. The latter tended to fare better in the North. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. Freeman offers thorough histories of the privations of Indian boarding schools and commodity diets, plantation feeding methods, and the home economics efforts used to “Americanize” immigrants.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. They knew the federal government was promising 160 acres each to prospective settlers such as themselves, to improve land in the West. So they moved.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

I’d come to this neighborhood to talk to migrants working in local agriculture, and this cluster of worn stucco apartments was a short walk from a massive mango plantation and packing house. With more than 95,000 acres devoted to mango production in 2021 (roughly 1.5 million mango trees), it is one of Mexico’s top mango-growing states.

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