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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.
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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Civil Eats
AUGUST 23, 2023
The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. This process transformed natural ecosystems, as the companies diverted water from wet areas of the island to irrigate the fields in the drier parts.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 17, 2024
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. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Only the rice becomes food for humans. Grocery stores are scarce.
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. As it takes 90 years for an oak to fully mature, anything to speed up the process is a help.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed. 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. Mexico has nearly 1.5
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