Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

One of ALBA’s farmer partners driving a tractor. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization. Now, the couple are in the process of expanding to 5 acres. A landowner might have 100 acres available, which is too much for one new farmer. Rojas said recently in Spanish.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.”

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

About five years ago my wife and I bought a 200 acre ranch located in SE Washington state (about 40 miles west of Idaho and about 15 miles north of Oregon). My wife took a video of me on the tractor. It took exactly two hours to do the 8 acre field and now I am back to working on those pesky tax returns.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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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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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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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms. But the Innovation Challenge is about more than just tractors.

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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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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company, which already works with more than 20 of the leading permanent crop growers in the US, will use the funds to further scale its agricultural autonomous tractor and farming solutions, and expand into new markets worldwide based on its successful track record. The global market for autonomous tractors is due to reach $11.5B

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number. According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. Matters are much the same in the US.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

They can use drones to get aerial views without trekking through acres and acres. Hackers are jail-breaking tractors and they’re using ransomware to go after individual farms. Beyond just improving crop yields and reducing input costs, farms can monitor their fields from across the world. These aren’t simply empty threats.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. We also raised burley tobacco until I was a junior in high school. A childhood photo from the family farm.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Like a hoe or a tractor, digital tools in agriculture may offer farmers opportunities. Subranamian himself had three acres of cabbages to sell but was unable to travel to find a market. But as any farmer knows, some tools are better than others. Digital tools can also be costly and out of reach for smaller farmers.

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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We hiked to the top of a hill overlooking a brown barn, tied a ribbon to the top of the tree we wanted, and hollered for a 12-year-old with a chainsaw presumably the farmers son to cut it down and drag it to a tractor. During the holidays I pride myself on living in Christmas tree country.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a 41-year-old agriculture conservation non-profit, is pleased to announce its role as a partner in Farmers for Soil Health (FSH), a new program devoted to increasing the usage of cover crops on corn and soybean acres. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S.

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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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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 18.6 Total sales of Ag tractors dropped 14.1 Harrell, an innovative farmer from Smithville, Georgia, has shattered his previous world record by achieving an incredible 218.2856 bushels per acre, establishing a new global benchmark. bushels per acre. percent year-to-date.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A refrigerated tank pulled by a tractor comes to the field at the end of milking and hauls all the milk to the farm’s bulk tank where it is picked up by a dairy processor. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. All the milking is done by hand, with each guy milking 20-25 cows.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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Agwired

JANUARY 24, 2024

Case IH , a global leader in agriculture equipment, is recognized as a 2023 Good Design Award Winner for the Farmall 75C Electric and the Steiger 715 Quadtrac tractors. These acres are conservatively estimated to sequester more than 7.5 million tons of carbon over the contract periods.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

The end result of EcoField data calculations is a single value — the average carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions (kg/acre) for each field. Below is an example of the EcoField data dashboard output showing the total average CO 2 e emissions (kg/acre) as well as for each source.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. megawatts of DC power.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). Gains in the U.S. market were led by 100+hp 2WD units, up 25.4 percent, closely followed by 4WD units up 21.9

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In his case, this means a team of Suffolk Punch draft horses, but the same apparatus can be hitched to a tractor. Davis helped him modify his tractor so that he could cultivate his fields and apply urine in one pass. You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Viva Farms is a nonprofit that helps new and limited-resource farmers with access to land, equipment and more, and this site is home to 18 incubator farms and a half-acre student farm. Tractor laying plastic mulch ahead of the growing season. Photography by Jazmine Mejia-Muñoz.) We have to start designing this stuff better.”

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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. Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2022

I work about one and half acres that I rent. Obviously, I will have to add a couple acres to make it all happen but that is what a vision is all about!” This month we asked Patrick Mitchell from Windy River Farms to be a part of this series. When we asked why he joined CAFF, Patrick said “ I am a small farmer.

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