DTN

JANUARY 31, 2025

economy continues to demonstrate resilience with solid growth and moderating inflation, the rural economy faces continued volatility and uncertainty. More than ever, preparation is key for grain buyers to secure the best deals and maintain a stable supply chain. While the U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. AMSP’s director, Roger Kaboré, explains that prioritizing the crop’s yield was a priority largely held by the men, who had historically been considered the primary decision makers.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Finance Agriculture Agriculture Farming 94

The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). Rural communities are vital to US agriculture, since they are home to most of the land under cultivation and provide much of the workforce for the agriculture sector.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 28, 2025

Eco Technology s flagship product, aquasource, is a biodegradable absorbent that significantly reduces water usage, increases crop yields, and improves soil health. FA Bio s patented technology drives highly efficient discovery of novel biological crop inputs to preserve and restore soil health.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 19, 2023

Rural communities are a necessary element of renewable energy development, but across the United States denizens of small communities protest solar farms cropping up across large swaths of land. Developing agrivoltaics, technologies combining solar and agriculture, could help reduce community pushback against solar development.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, it can reduce crop yields or augment water demands as some plants, like crops, will require more water to survive and produce fruit. In California alone, crop revenue losses due to drought totaled $3.0 Increases in VPD over since the late 90’s have led to increasing forest drought and tree mortality.

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Supply Chain Crop Crop Yield Finance 104

Caff

JULY 28, 2024

Sonoma county encompasses many environments: wet and foggy coastal redwoods, agriculturally fertile valleys, interior coast range oak woodland, densely populated cities, rural communities, and thriving tribal groups. Enhanced Crop Yields: In nutrient-poor soils, biochar application can increase crop yields.

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Production Crop Yield Fertilizer Yield 52

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

In addition, despite concerns that the sustainable practices that support mammals may reduce crop yields, some indications point to the opposite conclusion. “By By diversifying the system, you provide a lot more habitat for these natural pollinators to pollinate crops,” said Singh-Varma. Agencies like the U.S.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

The full report is available online at fapri.missouri.edu, but here are some key results: If weather conditions allow crop yields to return to trend-line levels in 2023, prices for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and many other crops are likely to fall.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. As research and reporting began to call significant attention to the company’s negative effects on rural economies and the environment , Harold Lee Scott, Jr.,

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

When arranged in the right way, studies have found this approach can actually offer compounding advantages such as shielding plants from excessive heat, cold and UV damage, thereby increasing the yield of certain crops. Some reduction in yield is still better than growing nothing," he argued. Photo is by Thomas Hickey.

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Farming Farming Crop Yield 52

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But blueberry land and other parcels of rural Maine are being increasingly eyed for housing development, and Sweetland feels the wild blueberry sector is under pressure, especially when blueberry market prices drop. He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Agritecture Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

With limited available land and the increasing distance between rural farms and urban centers, traditional agricultural methods face constraints. This research and development initiative is crucial, as climatic events have severely impacted crop yields across New Zealand.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. xix] Regenerative agriculture also has potential to support resilient rural communities and jobs. pdf [xxxi] [link].

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cooperatives contribute to the development of rural communities. The farm coop represents the collective voice of local farmers and can drive meaningful change and ensure that the needs of rural communities are considered in the decision-making processes at local, national, and international levels.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 10, 2024

Last week, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), alongside 97 food, farm, conservation, and rural organizations, delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators urging them to fully fund the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) at $60 million in fiscal year (FY) 2025.

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Crop Yield Marketing Agriculture Agriculture 103

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA. agricultural policy.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The loss of these small farms hurts rural communities, paves the way for environmentally harmful monocropping, and prevents farmers from building economic power through agriculture. Farms are consolidating as small producers struggle with rising costs, changing weather conditions, and other challenges. Land access was the first step.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Evidence shows there are no significant yield losses from planting seeds without neonic coatings. After five years and a 95 percent drop in the use of neonic-coated seeds, there have been no reported impacts on crop yields. And they emphasize the need for seed coatings as insurance against crop loss.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The monotonous succession of stricken row crops flashed by. Corn yields cut by almost half. The lines would start just south of Sunbury at a sprawling substation and then traverse a stretch of farming tracts and country homes within a rural township until they reached two substations northeast of New Albany.

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