Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else.

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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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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

And the world of precision farming methods, like GPS and sensors, save water, use fewer chemicals, and enhance crop yields with less environmental harm. Conclusion Tractors, used responsibly, can turn more acres into productive, sustainable land, reducing food insecurity and improving the local economy in communities. and Lewin, P.

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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 ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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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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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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). Rural communities are vital to US agriculture, since they are home to most of the land under cultivation and provide much of the workforce for the agriculture sector.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 19, 2023

Rural communities are a necessary element of renewable energy development, but across the United States denizens of small communities protest solar farms cropping up across large swaths of land. Developing agrivoltaics, technologies combining solar and agriculture, could help reduce community pushback against solar development.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” That’s the promise that AcreTrader , a company with the mission of simplifying investing in valuable U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Most of the people in our ag program are coming from an agrarian background but are trying to be innovative with new ways to approach farming,” says Leventhal.

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Caff

MARCH 27, 2023

The Local Food Producers Bill, if passed, will help identify and create a legal definition for “Local Food Producers”, independently-owned farms operated on less than 500 acres who sell direct to their local community. Join us today in calling on our state leaders to pass this bill!

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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. Shade from the solar panels is significantly reducing blueberry yield. Emmett Gartner covers accountability and Maine’s rural communities as a Roy W.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

The bulletin says, “Iowa State University researchers generally recommend terminating the cover crop with herbicide 10-14 days prior to planting corn to protect yield; however, that time frame is less critical for soybeans.” For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

A 2022 study of organic farming in India found “that there is no short-term yield penalty when adopting ZBNF in small scale farming systems compared to conventional and organic alternatives.” As the name implies, this is a no-cost system relying on ecological processes to produce the same yields as more expensive conventional systems.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

In January 2022, SHI launched Promoter 4 Change, a farmer-to-farmer training program creating rural climate resilience, biodiversity, and new economic opportunities through sustainable farming practices. Crop failure and low yields, in turn, have exacerbated political instability, poverty, and migration. million trees.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

hectares (less than 2 acres), and just over 40% of the population of around 3 million, work in agriculture – Albania’s primary economic sector. The reasons for Albanian farmers making this switch is understandable – modern cultivars offer greater yields and lower production costs due to scale and better storage.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While these breeding programs furthered the base of scientific knowledge around plant breeding and led to significant increases in yields, farmers were slowly pushed out of their historical role as the primary stakeholders in seed saving and development. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Through the USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited decade-long Rice Stewardship Program , we have built a field team of partners who have worked on more than 1,000 rice farms spanning nearly one million acres, improving agricultural and environmental performances. Biolevel Ltd. ,

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Fields in the San Luis Valley yield two billion pounds of potatoes a year, making the region the nation’s second-biggest spud producer. In southwestern Colorado’s high desert, producers already till fewer acres, tax themselves to fund fallowing programs, and plant less water-intensive crops.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

But a few studies have indicated that increasing amounts of nitrogen fertilizer has little effect on yield in cool-season tunnel greens production. Secondly, we know that for each percent of organic matter above 2%, a nitrogen credit of about 20 pounds per acre can be considered before applying nitrogen fertilizer for a crop.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. We can’t go out there and not get the yields. This year, $1 million was awarded to a program-record 36 groups across the state. We’re not the culprits. Work with us.

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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. Land access was the first step. That’s how bad it was last year.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2023

Outside of the University he owns and operates a cottage-food business, Vulcan Mine Bakery, where he bakes and provides free business consultations for rural redevelopment initiatives. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. Environmental Protection Agency, nitrogen fertilizer sales increased from 17 pounds per acre in 1960 to 83.6 pounds per acre in 2013.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, NC. 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. In the face of evidence and data, why have we set up a system that overbuilds in urban areas and nearly ignores rural spots?

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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

JULY 9, 2024

One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. At those tables, farmers could grab an Advanced Acre Rx hat from WinField United, Land O’Lakes’ seed and chemical company, and a water bottle emblazoned with the logo for Truterra , its carbon market platform, in one fell swoop. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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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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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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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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