Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly For the past eight years a direct drill was the only piece of equipment Wiltshire mixed arable and beef farmer George Hosier has used to establish his arable crops.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Yet with California’s agricultural hub dominated by large-scale farms and commodity crops, he’s found a comfortable niche at his local farmers market. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The goats, and to some extent the cows, have been replaced by sheep in recent times, a shift that speaks to the widespread social, cultural and ecological degradation that has occurred thanks to more than two centuries of Highland Clearances , followed by agricultural intensification.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. As stated by Ryan M. Lefers, Mark Tester and Kyle J. Herbs grown by Mojan Farms. Greener Crop Inc.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Since our inception, we have known that mycorrhiza – the Queen of Biologicals – offers a compelling agricultural solution to mitigate climate change,” said Dr. Yossi Koffman, co-founder and CEO of Groundwork BioAg. Rootella Carbon delivers on that vision by paving the way to a gigaton of CO 2 sequestration in the next decade.”

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Cold plasma technology has established uses in traditional outdoor agriculture, but its uses have not been explored in indoor agriculture until recently. One of the main pain points of indoor agriculture is the massive amount of energy it takes to run CEA operations. Two workers inspect plants in a vertical farm.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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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. Land access was the first step.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Of that lost land, 4.4 million acres were considered “nationally significant,” meaning it was some of America’s best land for food and crop production. Supply of arable land per capita has declined by 0.5 Preserve American Farmland America lost 25 percent of its farmland since 1950 due to urbanization. years old in 2017.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. And these think tanks continue to crank out their nonsense. They don’t get fired. They just keep going. The average U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

With a population of almost half a million, the region is known for its arable land and stunning vistas – the “Tuscany of America,” according to local rancher Bronte Edwards. In a tight-knit agricultural county like Sonoma, though, even the big players are friendly faces at the grocery store.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The free-flowing water is a welcome sight in southern Colorado, an agricultural region in the throes of a groundwater crisis. This patchwork of land marks the personal sacrifices that are keeping the region’s agricultural industry—its largest employer —alive. “If Many are not replenishable. more reliant on imports.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The post-war Government enabled an agricultural transition that dramatically shifted farming and diets. v] [vi] [vii] Yet, under the last Government, Defra underspent on its agriculture budget commitments by £358million over three years. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shaken the market since its inception, and this weeks news of Chinas DeepSeek competing with US rivals such OpenAIs ChatGPT shows the revolution has only just begun. This has resulted in up to 25% yield increase in key markets.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

Some producers have switched to land-based protein sources, such as soymeal and soy oil. But Schester says that approach creates a similar dilemma: taking protein from arable land that could directly feed people and turning it into fish feed. There is no free lunch when it comes to fish farming,” he adds.

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