Acre Plowing Yield 
DTN
JULY 24, 2023
Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence.
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. A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans.
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Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres. ppm for nitrates.
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. As contamination rose, crop yields fell by 15 percent. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future. But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops.
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.
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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