Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Worsham farms, growers and producers of over 1,500 acres of sweet corn, 1,200 acres of peanuts, and 2,500 acres of pecans—with trees over 100 years old—allowed us to document their journey and share the story of what it takes to be a resilient farmer in an industry where you risk it all to work the land you love.

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Acre Ranching Livestock Farming 105

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Eagle Rock Ranch. The acreage is going down, too: There are about 879 million acres being farmed, down slightly from the 900 million acres growing crops or feeding animals in 2017. A cattle ranch educates customers Eagle Rock Ranch was founded in 1868 by Louis Holst as a working cattle and hay operation.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ranching 84

Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

She since partnered with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S. Niman Ranch provides the participants with a guaranteed market for their hogs in exchange for upholding high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Ranching 116

CalCAN

AUGUST 24, 2023

55 miles south of San Francisco along Highway 1 lies Pie Ranch. Beginning with 14 acres along The post Senator Becker Visits Pie Ranch: A First-Hand Look at Climate-Resilient Agriculture appeared first on CalCAN.

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Ranching Agriculture Agriculture Acre 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up. She witnessed how difficult it was for them to work the ranch alone. Carman uses the principles of regenerative soil management on the ranch.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 134

DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

agriculture and ranching was released in February. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. million acres annually. The pinnacle report on the state of U.S. more than five years ago.

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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are.

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Ranching Family Farming Farming Farming 105

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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Plantation Pasture Ranching Acre 110

Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

Brisa Ranch went through their first 3rd Party Audit in 2020 because they participated in the USDA’s Farm to Food Box Program (a COVID-19 response program) and needed the certification to sell to the program. The post Food Safety & Wildfires Case Study: Brisa Ranch appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Ranching Food Crop Farming 52

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

farms and ranches. million farms and ranches (down 7% from 2017) with an average size of 463 acres (up 5%) on 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%). Ag census data provide valuable insights into demographics, economics, land use and activities on U.S. The results show that there were 1.9 That is 39% of all U.S.

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Ranching Agriculture Agriculture Farming 40

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 77

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 137

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

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Livestock Acre Cattle Ranching 145

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Farm and Ranch Enterprise has installed an in-conduit hydropower system that integrates sustainable energy production with advanced center-pivot irrigation technology across its 7,700 acres of irrigated farmland.

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Ranching Farming Farming Farmland 40

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Furthermore, new and beginning producers , defined as farmers and ranchers who have operated a farm or ranch for not more than 10 consecutive years, increased in both the number of producers and the share of all producers. million farms and ranches across the U.S. – farms and ranches produced $543.1 million acres to 196.5

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 111

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

In 2019, they connected with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States. Niman Ranch offers a guaranteed market for its farmers’ and ranchers’ products in exchange for a high standard of practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs.

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Farming Farming Ranching Farmland 96

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently. million acres of farmland and ranchland through conservation easements. But real estate developers can afford it.

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Farmland Acre Real Estate Ranching 106

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 such, strictly grass-fed or grass-finished operations tend to be modest in scale, says Cheung, with the majority of ranches in the U.S.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 116

ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Greenhouse Processing Ranching Acre 98

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Smokehouse Creek Fire that started in Hutchinson County has burned a total of 1,075,000 acres across Texas and Oklahoma and is 3% contained. Read More → The post Largest wildfire in Texas history continues appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Acre Ranching Farming Farming 122

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Now let’s take a look at some of the economic costs and benefits of addressing erosion on farms and ranches. To determine the cost of erosion, I used the NRCS tolerable soil loss or “T” value for our farm of 5 tons per acre. Despite the complexity, 5 tons per acre per year is a reasonable estimate for the Midwestern U.S.

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Acre Fertilizer Crop Ranching 76

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 130

AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 According to U.S.

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Cattle Pasture Livestock Acre 115

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. The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 124

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. We bought the ranch by forming a land cooperative with three other families and collaborating on different uses of the land,” he said.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 89

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

CSP remains the largest conservation initiative in the US, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled in the program in FY2023 (see Figure 1). Despite this strong foundation, this figure is actually a drop in cumulative acres of nearly 7 million acres during this farm bill cycle. million new acres enrolled in FY2023, 3.28

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The US is now home to about 880 million acres of farmland, down from 900 million at the time of the last census in 2017. That’s 20 million acres, or as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack puts it, every state in New England except Connecticut. million farms. Here are three of our top takeaways from the data.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Farming 112

AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The $13 million facility is a joint. Read More → The post Texas A&M begins construction on Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center first appeared on AgriLife Today.

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biotechnology Construction Acre Livestock 122

Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Texas leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, with 248,416 , and has the highest rate of uninsured residents, at about 18%.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 100

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a landowner with hundreds of acres of upland Appalachian hardwoods, I would sit there and watch a bevy of bureaucrats carve off massive pieces for logging in what are known as “below cost” timber sales. But at least the Secretary of the Interior wouldn’t, with the stroke of a pen, be able to give private largesse to millions of acres.

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Ecology Acre Compost Ranching 96

Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Each week is dedicated to a different farm-business-health topic,” Buckner said.

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Ranching Cattle Farming Farming 114

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business. At his ranch, they perform short-term monitoring of data points such as species diversity and the amount of bare soil. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 93

Agwired

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

USDA officials release 2022 Census of Agriculture USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on Tuesday released results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture , which includes more than 6 million data points about America’s farms and ranches and the people who operate them down to the county level. ” There were 1.9

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Farmland 45

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For three generations, Fanny Brewer’s family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota’s Ziebach County. million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 128