UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. Overgrazing pasture is a negative disturbance just the same as plowing or spraying, so minimizing the negative compounding, cascading effects through adequate rest and recovery is key.

Pasture 105

Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

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.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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.

Fertilizer 145

Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

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.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

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.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Its also an area that has been battered by human-caused climate change. Photography via Shutterstock.

Agriculture 75

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvester 75

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. Once colonies have plague, they can disappear in two weeks, said Shamon.

Ranching 92

Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 92