Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Farmers Weekly Severe flooding of farmland across Scotland has left farmers facing a bill running into millions of pounds, NFU Scotland has said. Extreme rainfall over a 48-hour period over the weekend caused “unprecedented damage” to farmland, crops and infrastructure, particularly in northern and western parts of Scotland, said the union.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Land is a fundamental and finite resource, yet it is easy to overlook its value in our everyday lives.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 17, 2024

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 15, 2025

farmland market has a history of strong stability and performance. In 2024, farmland values increased by five percent for total farm real estate, with an increase of 4.7 farmland market and increased competition for land use toward the end of 2024, but there is still a lot of debate on the future of farmland market values.

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Farmland Marketing Real Estate Finance 59

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Percent of farmland used for oilseeds or grains: 32% Percent of farmland used for beef cattle: 40% Average age of farmers: 58.1 (up Average farm income: $79,790.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Woodlands are the focus this week, with the farmland market quiet in terms of new launches. This has maturing conifer crops, mixed broadleaves with ancient woodland and good internal infrastructure. Recently launched in north Wales is almost 157 acres of mixed woodland just south of Abergele in Denbighshire.

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Marketing Farmland Acre Crop 264

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. The current situation: Most American farmland acreage is dedicated to animal feed and fuel production.

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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

Crop damage and equipment loss can rack up to thousands of dollars for farmers, even with insurance. The spread of invasive species hinders future growing seasons of certain crops. Crop insurance didn’t cover all the damages incurred, especially not the long-term costs. The aftermath of such disasters is devastating.

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Farmland Supply Chain Crop Production 145

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently.

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Farmland Acre Real Estate Ranching 122

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID), which supplies water to over 500 thousand acres of farmland in southern Alberta, is no stranger to drought, and 2023 has been the sixth driest. The largest irrigation district in Canada is counting on above average snowpack this winter to replenish water supplies for the 2024 growing season.

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Farmland Acre Production Crop 271

Real Agriculture

MAY 18, 2023

Tucked into the Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ Bill 97 is a proposed change to severance allowances of farmland that the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) says could make siting of livestock farms much more difficulty.

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Farmland Livestock Agriculture Agriculture 130

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Even as inflation continues to grow and increasing borrowing costs have put pressure on farm incomes, farmland values across Canada rose 7.7 Read More Even as inflation continues to grow and increasing borrowing costs have put pressure on farm incomes, farmland values across Canada rose 7.7 Gervais.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The shouts to preserve farmland were not enough to reverse course on the breakup and development of southern Ontario’s Greenbelt, but it appears several scathing reports of misdoings and resignations of ministers was. Late last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference (CTV clip below) to not only announce a pull back on.

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Farmland Production Crop 289

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers across much of the country have been counting the cost of Storm Babet, with images of damaged infrastructure and unharvested maize and vegetable crops submerged in flood water suggesting it will be significant.

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Maize Farmland Acre Crop 198

Farmers Weekly

JULY 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly Greater use of various organic amendments is part of Welbeck Estate’s strategy for reducing reliance of synthetic fertiliser inputs, alongside the use of cover cropping.

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Manure Farmland Crop Farming 188

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. Our governments misplaced prioritization of growing and exporting low-value crops, which primarily benefits the corporations dominating our food system, is reflected in Americas public health. The number of U.S.

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Food Production Crop Farming 134

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

dairy trade; Pierre Petelle with Crop Life Canada on why the PMRA transformation agenda should be paused; Warren Kaeding, Saskatchewan minister of trade and export Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio!

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Farmland Crop 141

ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. This period is ideal for growing crops that thrive in cooler weather, including leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries.

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Farming Farming Harvest Harvester 98

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

American Farmland Trust (AFT) and Sol Systems announced an agrivoltaic initiative aimed at growing Kernza perennial grain under solar panels at the Eldorado Phase II project in Illinois.

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Grain Farmland Forage Cultivation 52

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 14, 2025

Savage whose book Agritopia tackles the crop insurance/farm subsidy program. Savage said between 1995 and 2023 Iowa alone received $24,552,000,000 in USDA crop subsidies. The more than $1 billion annual crop subsidies to Iowa, of course, only go to a couple of things. One of the other speakers was D. Not so Iowa.

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Farming Farming Plowing Acre 99

American Farmland

AUGUST 25, 2023

The post New AFT Paper Strengthens the Case for Building Bridges between Crop Insurance and Soil Health appeared first on American Farmland Trust.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Farmers Weekly Scottish farmers whose high-value vegetable crops were destroyed by Storm Babet have been given an assurance that government money will be committed to protecting farmland from future rainfall extremes.

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Farmland Ruralism Crop Farming 172

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs.

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Farmland Acre Food Farming 127

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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Farmland Real Estate Orchard Water Rights 145

Western FarmPress

MAY 29, 2024

More Than Dirt: Threats to food supply include Wall Street and foreign ownership of farmland, green energy and yield growth in grain crops.

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Food Farmland Grain Yield 124

NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dear Secretary Vilsack and Director Young: As the Administration develops its budget proposal for FY 2025, we respectfully urge you to once again protect crop insurance from harmful cuts. It is the certainty of the crop insurance program that provides critical reassurance to lenders.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 18, 2023

Crop acres shifted according to the last USDA report, which has made farmers slow down on making purchasing decisions.

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Farmland Acre Crop 98

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. The remainder of the crops will be planted in the spring. I think that’s worth working on.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The farm safety net, which includes commodity support programs and federal crop insurance, is a fundamental component of any farm bill. These programs primarily benefit a limited number of commodity producers, leaving behind many farmers, including small, beginning, and specialty crop farmers. In 2023, there were 239.7

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Farming Farming Acre Farmland 64

Western FarmPress

MARCH 25, 2024

So far, this is not lowering Iowa farmland prices. Rising input prices can pressure land prices.

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Farmland Crop 98

Western FarmPress

JANUARY 22, 2025

Direct emergency payments, strong exports and a mid-January USDA crop report surprise have helped renew optimism in Iowa land values.

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Farmland Marketing Crop 97

Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Commodity Prices Prices for grains, oilseeds, and cotton are expected to remain low, impacting crop farmers margins. Land Values and Cash Rents Farmland values are still rising, but growth is slowing. Operational Adjustments Diversify income streams through agritourism, value-added products, or alternative crops.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 13, 2023

Land Values: The statewide stability, with promise of big crop yields, helps offset the high input costs.

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Crop Yield Farmland Marketing Yield 96

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 64

Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Precision agriculture is a modern farming approach that uses technology to manage crops and farmland more efficiently. This method aims to enhance productivity

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

In the agricultural world, it refers to growing crops in stacked layers , usually indoors. This method is especially useful when growing small crops like microgreens , but it can also be used to grow lettuce, herbs, and other larger plants. Of course, not all crops make sense in this farming setup. What Is Vertical Farming?

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