Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Record high prices and seeded acres in 2022 led to a dramatic decline in prices and production in 2023. Acres are expected to increase. Record high prices and seeded acres in 2022 led to a dramatic decline in prices and production in 2023. Acres are expected to increase. Read More

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Marketing Acre Seeding Production 294

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 13, 2024

With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops. Read More With an average of over 20 million seeded acres in Canada, canola is one of Canada’s most widely grown crops. Read More

Biofuel 281

Biofuel Acre Seeding Crop 281

Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More

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Seeding Yield Acre Crop 242

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

We plant everything deepfor instance, the corn goes 18 inches deep, depending on where the seeds will find moisture.” ” His seeds rely on the humidity from the melted winter snow and annual monsoon rains in June. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This Syngenta seed company sells Golden Harvest hybrids using a different marketing strategy than the norm. Read on to learn more.

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Seeding Acre Harvest Harvesting 116

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 17, 2023

Grosse Isle-area farmer and long-time seed grower. Grosse Isle-area farmer and long-time seed grower. That’s the basic premise behind a unique arrangement that has come to be known as “Innovation Farms,” just northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Read More

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Acre Farming Farming Technology 245

Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

A bag of seed corn checks in at 80,000 kernels and typically weighs between 35 and 65 pounds. But the job of producing that seed is very different than growing a commercial corn crop. Read More A bag of seed corn checks in at 80,000 kernels and typically weighs between 35 and 65 pounds. One bag will plant roughly 2.5

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Seeding Acre Crop Production 130

Western FarmPress

JANUARY 9, 2025

Planted rice acreage that was once predictable has shifted patterns, with acres inching higher the past three consecutive years. That, in addition to hurricane weather, tightened seed supply for one of the largest players in the market.

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Seeding Acre Marketing 105

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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Farming Farming Crop Acre 142

Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The cost analysis, which concludes that it takes about $17,000 an acre to produce Romaine, does not factor in fmeasures to assure safety. All I pay for is seeds. But what it does consider is impressive. Here is just the first part of a Table that continues well into another page. I would not have guessed.

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Food Acre Harvest Harvesting 305

Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

Planting across Ontario is nearing completion in many regions, but excessive rain continues to stall progress in some areas, leaving farmers to contemplate switching intended corn acres to soybeans.

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Acre Crop Seeding Production 293

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

We plant everything deep, for instance, the corn goes 18 inches deep, depending on where the seeds will find moisture, relying on the humidity from the melted winter snow and annual monsoon rains in June. million acres of reservation the Hopi occupy in Northwestern Arizona, a fraction of their original territory.

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Seeding Crop Farming Farming 83

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I I seek out purity of ingredients, those that speak to my heart, and that is why for the last 10 years I’ve been collecting heirloom wheat seeds—to one day plant and watch them grow, to learn from them, and pass on their radiant life force through a loaf of bread, from the heart,” Velazquez said.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Specialty canola oil currently makes up approximately 10 percent of canola crop acres. While years ago the choice to go with a specialty oil could mean a yield gap, today, options in the hybrid seed space are plentiful and that yield gap has closed. Specialty canola genetics are up there in performance with regular commodity.

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Yield Acre Seeding Crop 141

AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s been said high-yielding corn needs 25" of moisture per acre per year. In 2023, when Mother Nature didn't cooperate, management strategies to retain moisture coupled with new traits made a difference at harvest.

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Technology Seeding Acre Yield 125

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Specialty canola oil currently makes up approximately 10 percent of canola crop acres. While years ago the choice to go with a specialty oil could mean a yield gap, today, options in the hybrid seed space are plentiful and that yield gap has closed.

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Yield Acre Seeding Crop 130

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 106

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Canadian NC1 ripens early, with fewer smooth black seeds than other varieties. Chris Chmiel of Integration Acres in Albany, Ohio, started the Ohio Pawpaw Festival in 1999 and has since heard countless stories of people’s relationships with the fruit he says has become “a symbol of our Appalachian heritage.”

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Seeding Farming Farming Orchard 141

Agwired

MARCH 5, 2024

ASTA’s Jordan Gregory, Janae Brady, and Katrina Bishop at Commodity Classic Representatives of the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) were at the Commodity Classic last week with member GO Seed to talk about cover crops. “As you look at sustainability practices, seed is a very important part of that solution.”

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Acre Crop Seeding 69

AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2024, the company, which started in Australia in crops such as barley and canola, is offering its product for use on soybean acres in six states: MN, SD, ND, WI, NE and IA.

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Seeding Marketing Acre Crop 110

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. Furthermore, to enroll in ARC or PLC, a farm must have base acres enrolled with USDAs Farm Service Agency (FSA), which administers the programs, as one of these covered commodities. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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Farming Farming Acre Farmland 64

Agwired

APRIL 29, 2025

Jord BioScience , a leading science and analytics company providing customizable microbial solutions for agriculture, has just released two years of field trial data showing its proprietary microbial solutions can increase soybean yield by up to more than three bushels per acre in the Midwest.

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Yield Acre Science Seeding 45

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

In fact, from 2008-2016, croplands expanded at a rate of over one million acres per year, with the eastern half of the Dakotas leading the charge. Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. ton/acre/year. Unfortunately, 69.5% in some spots.

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Acre Fertilizer Pasture Crop 97

Civil Eats

JANUARY 22, 2025

Together theyve burned nearly 40,000 acres of urban Los Angeles. Altadena Seed Library Altadena Seed Library is a seed-exchange network, founded to expand access to green spaces and shade while increasing food sovereignty and restoring local ecosystems. Seed donations can be mailed to 37 Auburn Ave.,

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Food Distribution Seeding Marketing 144

Real Agriculture

MAY 29, 2023

You’ll hear from Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson, RealAgriculture’s resident agronomist, on a number of topics including: wrapping up seeding in Ontario, nitrate samples, dry conditions in southwestern Ontario, and favourite things to BBQ. Welcome to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! Read More

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Acre Seeding 100

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Accelerate the speed to market of new elite germplasm by increasing the scale of parent seed production over competitors’ technology. Hybrid seeds are created by crossing two genetically different parents – to ultimately produce more resilient, higher yielding plants for farmers.

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Technology Yield Soil Science Seeding 52

Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey results, published today by the U.S. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water. million irrigated acres, which included 83.4

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Logistics Acre Seeding Tractor 45

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. While state production still remains in the hundreds of acres, according to Edward Johnston, several producers sell kava online. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Food Plantation Acre Production 129

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres. While fewer farms were enrolled compared to the 2017 Census (which reported 380,236 farms with insurance), the total acres covered actually increased by more than 10 million.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 80

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 9, 2025

The SEEDesign company secured significant support from new and returning investors as it seeks to redefine the seed technology landscape CAMBRIDGE, Mass., The SEEDesign company secured significant support from new and returning investors as it seeks to redefine the seed technology landscape CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and Ghent, Belgium.

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Seeding Technology Production Food 52

Agric4profits

APRIL 21, 2025

Below are the methods of harvesting dry beans: (1) Estimating Bean Yield Beans yields can be estimated by knowing the number of seeds per pod, pods per plant and plants per 1/1,000 of an acre. At the time of counting seeds and pods, the maturity status of each should be determined.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Seeding 69

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

She is also the co-founder and owner of Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, Bertie County Seeds retail shop, and Quitsna Conniot ancestral gardens with Justin Fix Rahakwhstha Cain, who is Tuscarora (Skaroreh Katenuaka). My tribe has control of two million acres on the books, but really we only have about a million acres accessible to our people.

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Greenhouse Seeding Finance Acre 87

Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

The pods dense and waxy exterior gives way to seeds coated in white pulp sweet, bitter and nutty to the taste. Since joining Lavaloha in 2019, Bencomo has spent most of his days farming on the property made up of almost 1,000 acres 25 of which are dedicated to cacao. Daeus Bencomo. Photography by Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton.

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Compost Marketing Farming Farming 79

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Bison Ventures led the oversubscribed round with participation from new investor, Cibus Capital, and existing investors Acre Venture Partners, Congruent Ventures, Fall Line Capital, E14 Fund, SNR and Serra Ventures. and Australia.

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Orchard Manufacturing Technology Acre 52

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Today, the Mattives farm 2,000 acres of certified seed potatoes, a specialized crop that begins in their tissue culture lab, where a single plant is carefully propagated into tens of thousands. We start from one plant and then just go from cloning that one plant and just cutting your 30,000 plants, said Gail Mattive.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Crop Rotation 83

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is launching an Untreated Seed Pilot Program that offers funding on a per-acre basis to American growers and producers interested in sourcing and using corn, soybean, and cereal-crop seeds not coated with neonicotinoid insecticides.

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Seeding Acre Crop 40