Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

But the reliance on utility-scale solar, which requires hundreds to even thousands of acres of land for panel installations, has sparked questions regarding the magnitude of land use requirements. Plus, it enables households and business owners within rural areas, farmers and non-farmers alike, to benefit from renewable energy.

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USDA Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

USDA’s Forest Service is responsible for managing 193 million acres of grasslands and forests. For rural America to thrive, we recognize we must partner with land managers and landowners.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MAY 3, 2024

By becoming a part of Acres’ growing network, users can unlock rural land insights. The post Acres’ California Farmland Values: A Data-Driven Analysis – Telling the Story Behind the Numbers appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Small and midsized farmers are being forced out, with consequences for rural communities. million acres. That “ratio” changes from place to place.

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Tillable

JULY 22, 2024

Rankings: Top 10 States with the Most Land Ownership in 2024 The average acres owned by a landowner varies dramatically across states in America, reflecting the unique characteristics and historical factors which influence land ownership among individuals and families. What do you think this map shows about rural land ownership in America?

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. acres where his great-grandfather Byron had been enslaved.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs. But that reality is starting to change.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Some CAFOs can produce as much waste as a small city, but without comparable waste management infrastructure, rural communities face health, economic, and environmental hazards. Large cities are often cited as major culprits when it comes to waste and pollution, but a CAFO in a rural area can compete with even a midsize metropolis. “A

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Editors Note: This is the inaugural edition of our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonders geographer and data reporter. Cut-your-own Christmas tree farms are part of a growing agritourism movement in rural communities, according to the USDA.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.” It is transforming many of the once-rural communities on its edges. It can lead, at times, to rural gentrification.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years.

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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.

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The Equation

MAY 13, 2024

One very important piece of information missing from the State of the Air report is air quality data for farmworker communities and other rural areas in the United States or California. These monitors are very expensive and largely absent from small rural communities. Source: California Natural Resources Agency.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Accelerating Appalachia has launched an innovative program to support underserved farmers and expand regenerative farming across Central/Southern Appalachia and the rural Southeast, including Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Southeastern Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Northern Georgia.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024, S.5335 5335 , sharing a detailed vision for keeping farmers farming, families fed, and rural communities strong. (November 25, 2024) On Monday, November 18th, U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. Through a pilot program, MWD pays the farmers leasing the land and the tribe up to $473 per acre.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 128

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The team estimated the environmental and socioeconomic costs and benefits of retiring and repurposing cropland within a mile of 154 rural disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley. Example of cropland within and one mile around several rural disadvantaged communities in Tulare County. million acre-feet per year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. I do care passionately about this existential threat to the family dairy farm.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The report highlights the critical role of CSP as the nation’s largest conservation program, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled. It reveals that during the 2018 Farm Bill, 36,799 new CSP contracts were signed, enrolling 49 million new acres, although the renewal rate for expiring contracts plummeted from nearly 60% to just 20%.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The concentration of benefits across programs primarily in the Midwest and Great Plains appears to correlate more closely to the number of acres planted to covered commodities than to the number of farms in a state or its value of production.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This episode of Voices from the Field continues a conversation between NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Linda Poole and Dr. Kathy Soder, who runs 125 Dorset ewes on 96 acres in Pennsylvania with her husband Ken and son Nathan.

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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. ppm for nitrates. Each year, the measurement in their water kept creeping up.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 124

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. Like what you see here? To care for it.

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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. Early 20th century agriculture was labor intensive, and it took place on many small, diversified farms in rural areas where more than half the U.S. population lives.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. acres are reserved for vegetables. Only a fraction of the land, around a quarter acre, is devoted to rice.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Critics of this approach will likely argue that it would require too much labor and take too many acres to grow cover crop seed. We’ve been chasing that rabbit for decades and it has hollowed out the heart of rural America.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

They had always said that they wanted to raise their kids in a rural community, and in 2010, when their eldest child was about to enter kindergarten, they decided to make the move and ended up on 47 acres in Avoca, WI. This was the beginning of Straight Forward Farm.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 tonnes per year, not zero.

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