AgWeb Farm Journal

JULY 27, 2023

“Producers looking to adopt precision ag technologies need network connectivity that extends far past their residences. They need to be able to make real-time decisions that increase yields," says Sen. Fischer (R-Neb.).

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By greening the desert and the drylands you could dramatically increase soil fertility, retain and store rainfall, restore landscapes and biodiversity, reforest semi-desert areas, regenerate rural livelihoods, and eventually restabilize the climate. I could hardly fall asleep. This book is Cummins’ living memorial.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, Nortth Carolina. In a rural area, that same mile of cable might connect a single family, so ISPs aren’t financially incentivized to run cable in those regions. Haxby hopes these figures will finally compel ISPs to build out in rural areas. “I

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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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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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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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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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ATTRA

MARCH 25, 2025

The Nebraska Farm & Food Economy report, released by the Center for Rural Affairs and Heartland Regional Food Business Center, provides a snapshot of the agricultural economy in Nebraska. Between 2017 and 2022, Nebraska lost nearly 2,000 farms and 1 million acres of farmland. However, farmers sold at least $16.6

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The resurgence gained further traction in the 1990s with support from the Department of Defenses Rural Economic Transition Assistance-Hawaii grants , which helped farmers shift from sugarcane plantations to diversified agriculture. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2025

Adam Chappell of Arkansas Adam Chappell of Chappell Farms in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, an 8,000-acre farm that the Chappell family has tended for four generations, spoke next. For more information on last weeks briefing see NSACs press release.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Rooted Northwest is a 240-acre piece of land which hosts a growing number of farmers, including Aiello, with collaboration and farmer support at the center of their operation, similar to an agri-hood. This will allow the project to preserve at least 200 acres of working farmland.

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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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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Short-term cash aid can be really helpful in building sustainable livelihoods in agriculture among rural farmers, refugees, and potentially vulnerable communities—but we need to pair it with financial education and policy support, too. And, as always, we need to see greater coordination and cross-silo work. It’s time to do more!

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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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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. In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs , more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. If youre working in an urban space, you probably dont have acres and acres to play with.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. And its not just our farmers and ranchers who are affected, its their local communities scattered all across rural America that have decayed right alongside them. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 6, 2025

These are small businesses in rural communities. He was scheduled to plant 500 acres of grain this spring and the contract was scheduled to go through 2028. There are many small businesses, from excavating companies to plumbers, engineers, and suppliers that will also be impacted and they may not even know it yet.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2016, he purchased 12 acres in nearby rural Cedar Grove to start a regenerative vegetable farm, which he named Sankofa, after the West African word for reclaiming and carrying forward what has been lost. My great-great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side owned 50 acres of land.

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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

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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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory. Roasted corn in a Hopi pit.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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