Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion pounds of food waste of which more than 75% was recycled into organic, nutrient-rich animal feed or made into customized formulations to address specific dietary concerns of cattle. The report also notes the company collected 1.7 According to US EPA calculations, converting 1.3

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Real Agriculture

MAY 19, 2023

Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio! On today’s show, host Shaun Haney is joined by Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture, for the RealAg Issues Panel. They discuss many topics, including: Ontario’s Bill 97 carving up farm land; Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau planning a trip to India in.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., Farmland Reserve Inc. The church likely originally purchased land in Nebraska through its nonprofit, Farmland Reserve Inc., By that point, the church had already purchased more than 200,000 acres of Nebraska ag land under Farmland Reserve Inc.

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American Farmland

AUGUST 5, 2024

Raising cattle can be an uncertain income stream, buffeted by swings in the market, uncertain weather patterns, and ever-rising input costs.

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 29, 2024

For example, Illinois Congressman Mike Bost introduced the Securing Our Lands and Resources (SOLAR) Act to protect prime farmland as solar installation rapidly increases in popularity. Some legislators, like Bost, are concerned that this transition to solar will eliminate more of America’s precious farmland.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

Those realities, combined with a dose of pandemic-induced social distancing and a chance to buy an extended family member’s farm, led the couple to venture into the world of Black Angus cattle production in 2020. The challenge: Between the two of them, the couple had limited agricultural experience, and none in cattle.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. The new law removed any motivation to conserve land.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 14, 2024

American Farmland Trust (AFT) announced that it disbursed more than $700,000 to 139 farmers across the United States through this year’s Brighter Future Fund. These crucial funds will allow farmers to rebuild and replace vital infrastructure, equipment, cattle, and more that were destroyed in the early 2024 wildfires.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. With a loss of nearly 142,000 farms, the number of U.S.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Funding more and better conservation practices also helps grow farmers and protect farmland. New farmer Hannah Bernhardt says EQIP funding paid for fences and waterlines at her farm in Finlayson, Minnesota, which allowed her to grow her herd of cattle.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. The goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis walked up to the podium displaying a “Save Our Beef” poster — the logo designed as a parody of the World Economic Forum’s brand.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MARCH 31, 2024

cattle herd – or U.S. Imagine how disappointed you’d eventually be if your entire investment thesis was buying agricultural assets (farmland or cattle) because they were at historically low levels.” For example, only considering the size of the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The driest period in more than 1,200 years has forced producers in both areas to curtail well water use, fallow farm land, and sell cattle. For example, the city of Aurora in March purchased farmland and water rights near Greeley, about 100 miles west, with plans to transfer the water to urbanites for good.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Production loans are issued to cover the cost of land purchases; equipment purchases such as tractors; seeds, fertilizers and chemicals needed for growing crops; breeding livestock like cows or pigs that produce milk; feeder cattle sold at auction markets, and more. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Benjamin Ruddell , director of the National Water-Economy Project , said that Colorado River water shortages left large areas of farmland in Arizona unsowed, a bellwether of things to come. “Up Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Some studies show California’s farmland acreage will be reduced by about 20 percent by 2040. Almonds are a shelf-stable source of protein, for one.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Conscious Pet No discussion of vanishing farmland or concerns about wasting human grade food on pets is complete without a mention of food waste—when 30 percent to 40 percent of the entire US food supply gets dumped in landfills. In recent years, the company, which now has a nationwide following, has landed on the Inc.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again. Croix county for 6 generations and counting.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Those systems still involve cattle being sent to large feedlots.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Repayment might be an issue, as well as farmers ability to grow certain crops or rebuild cattle herds due to the high costs of borrowing.” ” Dede Jones, Texas A&M University The good news is the value of farmland has also gone up by 42 percent, helping offset the farmers debt-to-asset ratio.

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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. It’s kinda cool to watch the cattle eat turnips because they’ll eat the leaf first, then the stem, then they’ll pull the turnip up and eat that, as well.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2024

Just be sure you fully understand requirements to avoid unwanted restrictions on how you can use your farmland. ” Mike Damboise, Cattle Rancher Ag Loans Made for Farmers by Farmers AgAmerica is dedicated to supporting farmers with tailored financial solutions.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. With dual-use agrivoltaics, crops are grown under or between the rows of solar panels, with the aim of generating renewable energy without removing farmland from production.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites. Communities like to see that a (solar) development company cares about the land and the process of development.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle. Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. That’s already happening in San Diego, with successful results. feet high in this exceptionally rainy year.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

Whitney is an owner and operator of JW Farms and Ranch, a family-owned agricultural producer with lot stock operations in southern Oklahoma and farmland in eastern Colorado. I’m a fifth-generation Oklahoma cattle rancher, married to a fourth-generation Colorado row crop farmer. Doss Roll, his name became Eddie Gibson.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

Garrett worries a lot about farmland being taken out of production with the development of more and more solar farms across the West. He said he would support more agrovoltaic development with cattle or sheep to maintain the agricultural nature of rural areas.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Our research team are using GPS collars on cattle to compare heat stress risk and grazing behaviour between paddocks with minimal tree cover, and paddocks where over 30% of the forest was retained as shelterbelts. These win-wins look different depending on which beef producing region you are in.

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