Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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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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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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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The case dealt with a part-time framer near Creston, Iowa farming about 500 acres. Instead of buying new tractors, the farmer elected to purchase 40-50 year tractors and place them with implements attached at each of their five farms. Especially when the farmer purchased 8 tractors in 2013, 12 in 2014 and 9 in 2015.

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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. Aiello drives a shared tractor.

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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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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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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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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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land. The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm.

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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

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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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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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process.

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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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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It is crucial that you understand how to estimate forage DM availability per acre so you can build appropriately sized paddocks. It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. This allows you to place bales when pasture conditions are dry and will easily hold up to the tractor traffic to place bales.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. Halfway across the world, April Hemmes is facing off against unrelenting bouts of heat amid verdant fields of soybeans and corn in Hampton, north-central Iowa. Photography via Shutterstock.

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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

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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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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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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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