Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Farmers Weekly Philip Wright and his family have been farming their 600 acre farm in Norfolk for four generations. Predominantly focused on arable, about 15 years ago he diversified into egg production and since then has become one of the largest free range producers in the region.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2025

The purpose of the award, which has been presented since 2013, is to recognize outstanding completed research projects, funded by USPOULTRY or the USPOULTRY Foundation, that have had a transformative effect on the poultry industry. Cox Graduate Student Scholarship in Poultry Food Safety in honor of the late Dr. Nelson Cox.

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Poultry Cattle Food Logistics 45

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The increased profit of corn has meant more corn is grown which has resulted in a 5% increase in erosion and nutrient leaking into public waters as acres are converted from perennial management or kept in row crops. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. The overall energy production of ethanol is positive.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Many birds with one stone The Carbon Chicken Project, which aims to develop a market-based, carbon-negative farming ecosystem, has taken shape in Northwest Arkansas, an area with a strong poultry production industry. In fact, the state of Arkansas ranks third in the country for the number of broilers produced (1 billion in 2022).

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Trimble Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

Soybeans Soybean plantings are predicted to fall by nearly three million acres in the 2023/2024 marketing year. Poultry and Poultry Products After experiencing record high prices in 2022, boiler prices have started to decline. A competitive market is placing downward pressure on soybean prices. Soybeans are projected at $12.75

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Marketing Net Farm Income Agriculture Agriculture 104

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, input costs were an average of $431 per acre for wheat and as much as $1,200 per acre for rice and peanuts. Livestock and Poultry: +17.9% Dairy, chicken eggs, and poultry are down due to low prices. Overall, production costs are predicted to increase by 6.9 percent in 2023 after accounting for inflation.

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Farming Farming Net Farm Income Poultry 105

Modern Farmer

JULY 3, 2023

After an initial push to attract new growers and expand the number of acres planted, and with support through the BC Hazelnut Renewal Program launched in 2018, hazelnut production is steadily increasing. In 2021, BC produced more than 70,000 pounds of hazelnuts on around 350 acres. In comparison, BC hopes to reach 1,000 acres.

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Orchard Acre Production Processing 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

In an email to High Country News , Roy Smith, a Sonoma County farmer who runs a seven-acre hay operation, wrote that the debate lacks nuance: “Both sides argue a truth, and both sides permit a falsehood,” he said. In a country dominated by large-scale farming operations comprising thousands of acres of monocrops, Sonoma County is an outlier.

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Livestock Acre Poultry Farming 62

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland. I did have to put huge aviaries up to protect my poultry from coyotes and sometimes a persistent fox,” she wrote in an email to Civil Eats.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 143

ATTRA

JANUARY 7, 2025

They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. Paul Wilson raises vegetables and laying hens and is developing a sheep operation on 48 acres in Warfield, Virginia.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. Tetrick says his company has no interest in squeezing out small-scale poultry farming operations that favor sustainable and humane methods. The lab at Good Meat. says Tetrick.

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Cultivation Food Production Poultry 98

Agwired

APRIL 1, 2024

million acres have been burned, 600 structures have been destroyed and tens of thousands of animals have been lost — and with the fires only 15 percent contained at the time of writing, the total loss won’t be known for quite some time. The destruction has been staggering: The most recent assessments estimate that more than 1.2

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Poultry Supply Chain Processing Production 45

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm. But here are a few to show the use cases of using precision data today. By analyzing aerial imagery, they were able to pinpoint areas suffering from nutrient deficiencies on their farm.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 96

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Acre Agriculture 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. Gerhardt, now 66, farms organic hay on his own 10-acre field in Mohawk, NY. On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 137

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 5, 2024

On its 361-acre demonstration farm located in the southern McDowell County community of Berwind, EDGE is currently training community members using an entrepreneurship-based model in food production around viable products that are high value and should be scaled in production to increase food sovereignty locally and ideally across the US.

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Food Production Poultry Acre 86

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Furthermore, the House’s FY2025 proposal again insists on harmful policy riders that would prevent the implementation of rules designed to promote fair competition for livestock and poultry producers under the Packers and Stockyards Act and prevent any funding for efforts at USDA to advance racial equity and support for underserved communities.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 123

Agwired

MARCH 26, 2024

poultry and egg product exports, culminating several months of collaborations with the Colombian Institute of Agriculture to resolve this trade barrier. poultry and egg product exports, culminating several months of collaborations with the Colombian Institute of Agriculture to resolve this trade barrier.

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Poultry Cattle Agriculture Agriculture 45

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 140

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Poultry populations are similarly uniform, with the Food and Agriculture Organization warning that up to 50 percent of poultry breeds are at risk of extinction. (Of that 72 percent, 73 percent are Angus cattle, 15 percent are Red Angus and nine percent are Hereford). Sheila Patinkin. Photography courtesy of Vermont Wagyu.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 97

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

His bottom strands are only 6 inches off the ground, which he said has been extremely effective for predator control, as he also raises poultry and smaller livestock. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 142

Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

That year he hosted his first national conference and asked me to do a speech about pastured poultry. Suddenly we were getting calls from around the country: “How do you do this pastured poultry thing?” In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15. Seuss) or an incredible idea (pastured poultry).

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Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 64

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some 3 million acres of agricultural lands were in the storm’s path, including row crops like peanuts and cotton, dairy and poultry farms, aquaculture operations and more. Early reports from agricultural operations in Florida’s Big Bend region indicate production losses caused by Hurricane Idalia fall in an estimated range of $78.8

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Manufacturing Harvester Seeding Harvest 45

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre. This short supply will likely lead to higher prices—cotton is forecast to increase by three cents to 79 cents per pound. New, more weather-resistant varieties of rice are contributing to this increased production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

Our mission was to earn a living as full-time regenerative farmers on just 10 acres in South West Wales. We experimented with a combination of ruminants and agroforestry, perennial crops and poultry, as well as some annual crops. In hindsight, what we did was crazy, but we have no regrets.

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Farming Farming Compost Manure 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Farmers experienced additional backups processing their beef, pork and poultry animals as meat processing plants shut down when workers contracted COVID-19 or needed to distance themselves from other meat processing workers. Many of their usual customers, schools and restaurants, were shuttered because of the virus.

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Food Supply Chain Distribution Processing 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 84

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. In his debut book, Nuggets of Gold , historian Patrick Dixon offers a primer on the history of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the poultry industry, and the chicken nugget. And she could. By 1926, she had 10,000 birds.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

A recent study from the USDA’s Economic Research Service found that just two giant seed companies —Bayer and Corteva—accounted for nearly three-quarters of planted corn acres and two-thirds of planted soybean acres in the United States between 2018 and 2020.

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Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

Another notable USDA highlight included the release of its Equity Commission’s Final Report and the announcement of one of the Packers and Stockyards Act final rule s, designed to protect the rights of livestock and poultry producers. The shared commercial kitchen at The Good Acre, a food hub in Falcon Heights, MN.

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Agwired

MARCH 17, 2025

Nationwide, 543,753,123 acres of farm and ranchland were covered in 2024 or nine out of 10 eligible acres. Thats up dramatically from just five years ago, when fewer than 379 million acres were insured. Profitable feeding margins in the livestock and poultry sectors are also supporting corn demand.

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Acre Crop Greenhouse Poultry 45

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Becky raises South Poll cattle as a cow-calf operation, breeds replacement heifers, and sells seed stock on 160-acres of land. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69