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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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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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

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers believe it’s not just because many farmers have other risk factors, such as rural addresses and access to guns. He and his brother-in-law raise corn and soybeans on the 500-acre farm where Haglund grew up. They try to solve their own problems, whether it’s a busted tractor or a debilitating bout of anxiety.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. stems from burning, soil management, and gaseous emissions from both tractors and soil. a company that manages over 110,000 acres of farmland throughout the Central Valley. Agriculture’s contribution to PM2.5

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Farming Farming Tractor Agriculture 139

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. A recent report from the American Farmland Trust says Ohio could lose more than 518,000 acres of farmland to urban sprawl by 2040.

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Farming Farming Forage Acre 98

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

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. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. The quality of rural care can be low.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. We can’t escape the season of mud, but there are some management strategies that can help minimize the number of impacted acres.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Agwired

MAY 28, 2024

8R Autonomous Tractor Farmers never have a shortage of work to do on any given day. Autonomy increases overall farm productivity, enabling more acres to be covered by extending the day or unlocking 24/7 operation without adding help. He says they leave with a better understand of what agriculture is all about.

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Tractor Technology Orchard Agriculture 45

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. But the crop duster did.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Solar developers and agriculture researchers from the University of Maine have been studying the issue for two years at this 12-acre, four-megawatt project in Rockport. Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. It’s a whole different world.”

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Farming Farming Construction Agriculture 115

Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

During the time before the fire got to their property they used their tractors and implements to make 10-12 foot wide fire breaks around the exterior of their property. Due to the farm being in a more rural and remote area, it took about four days from when the fire initially started to when there was a firefighter presence near their farm.

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Ranching Food Crop Farming 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Of the 160-acres, Jenna and Thomas steward 25-acres to grow organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers and raise honeybees. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm. But through cooperation, determination and community, they pulled through.

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Food Farming Farming Ecology 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C.,

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 108

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Galen and Linda had been under tremendous stress since they took over the 160-acre family farm. They had initially arranged to split responsibilities with Galens high-school-aged brother, but the plan fell apart only months later when he was killed in a tractor accident. He got through the winter and started to improve.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ruralism 54

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2020, he went back to northern Iowa and joined his father in farming 500 acres of corn and soybeans. Why It Matters Neonic-treated seeds are planted on approximately 90 million acres of corn fields and more than 40 million acres of soybean fields each year. This is true. has barely budged in its approach.

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Seeding Pesticide Yield Acre 145

Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Biden administration is in the final days of a two-week national rural “barnstorm” designed to take the administration’s accomplishments to rural America, which could be a pivotal part of the 2024 presidential election. Though some of his remarks resonated with rural attendees, for others they fell flat.

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Ruralism Family Farming Farming Farming 101

Civil Eats

MARCH 21, 2025

Brittenburg grows organic vegetables and raises livestock across 200 acres, and he needs help to shake off the winter and get things moving again. Farmers in Limbo Matthew Fitzgerald grows corn, soybeans, wheat, and beans on 3,000 acres in McLeod County, Minnesota. Matthew Fitzgerald in a tractor in Minnesota.

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Farming Farming Processing Acre 141

Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothersthird-generation Black farmersstarted a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and milo.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Acre 130