Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” Meadows for the term that residents of the region use to refer to the vast marshes that create a fluid transition between solid ground and the water of the Delaware Bay.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 140

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

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. As a result, carbon stored in vineyard soils won’t ever add up to a meaningful reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. Subbing out a chunk of the meadow hay she feeds at $29 a bale has significantly decreased the costs to run her business. But it comes at a great cost to the region’s water supply.

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Cattle Technology Ranching Acre 98

Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Co-locating solar panels and crops can protect the crops from extreme weather, but it also produces energy for the farm or other purposes. Farmers in darker, colder countries like Germany or Denmark have to use a lower density of panels and space them further apart, so as not to rob the crops of the limited available sunlight.

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Farming Farming Crop Yield 52

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. I boasted about how indigenous flowers would aid pollinators that suffer from habitat loss, store greenhouse gasses and create a buffer against drought and heavy rains.

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Meadow Greenhouse Compost Soil Compaction 117

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 131