Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So, for those animals, the road is 100 feet wide, and yet, it’s denying them access to millions, potentially millions of acres of good habitat. These sections of interstate were plowed through communities of color in the 1950s and 60s very deliberately. The other thing I would say is road noise.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. I've concluded that both camps have merit and it depends on immediate objectives and circumstances as to which theme to employ. The following year it was solid weeds.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. Across farmland in the lower parts of the province, producers dealt with the deaths of thousands of animals, including more than 630,000 chickens , while 2,500 acres of blueberries wilted.

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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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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

My 89-year-old Aunt Corinne told me recently that when she was a child, she was her dad’s – my great-grandfather’s – “right-hand man” on their 1,500-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Family members share that risk. She helped him work the land, riding a horse named Booger Red. The work and risks didn’t end when she got home.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Old school farmers would be quick to point it out, and likely ask why we aren’t growing in that gorgeous six acre lower field where we could have long beds and everything in one space. Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Is this going to be some vertically integrated industry with thousand-acre farms owned by three guys who are getting all the benefits?”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

The farms ranged in size from less than an acre to over 50 acres. youth and adult volunteers Location: Fresno, California Acres in cultivation: Less than one acre Marketing: farmer’s markets, farm stand and CSA Crops: mixed vegetables “I think the food safety piece is just as important as all the other stuff that we do.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. That has left cover crops as essentially the last major idea standing for turning the roughly 400 million acres that U.S. percent for corn and 3.5 farmers grow annual crops on into a carbon sink. ’ But the study has drawbacks.

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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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