Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska’s growing days. In 2021, the USDA listed the average value for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. The 2017 U.S. In Florida, it’s $7,300.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Importing expensive chemical fertilizer, insisting on farming practices unsuited for local conditions, and prioritizing crop yield to maximize profit are some of the blanket agricultural prescriptions that have created unintended and lasting challenges. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

An estimated 500,000 to 900,000 acres of irrigated farmland will likely be taken out of production to satisfy state-level groundwater laws by 2040. The worry is that fallowed farmland, especially in the eastern Central Valley where it is turning to desert, could generate more dust leading to more PM2.5 in the air. tons of PM2.5

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pre-cultivation, the region owed the healthy pH of its soils to the lucky coincidence of sitting atop a volcanic bed. However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Left unchecked, they’re fertile ground, experts say, for harboring fecund grasses and other non-native plants, trees and even deer. Straddled in the flat valley between Maui’s two mountains, directly downslope from Balthazar’s cattle ranch, the region “is a very dry area,” she notes, requiring constant irrigation to cultivate crops.

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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. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community. We will have to sacrifice.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Organic] amendments are more expensive than industrial fertilizers.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Nevertheless, it is crucial to sing praise to and nurture the small farms that play pivotal roles in creating alternative foodways and cultivating community and culture through farming. They tend to be more productive than larger, conventional farms, and have a stronger commitment to protecting soil fertility and productivity in the long run.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres. The greenhouses use hydroponic technology—using water and no soil to cultivate plants—and the recycling of water throughout its facilities, including capturing rainwater and snow melt. They yield very high,” Carlson said.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

The repeated application of biochar over many years turned these nutrient-poor soils into fertile agricultural land. 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.

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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. Our cover crop cocktail has resulted in an immense reduction in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

invest in deeper root development and have greater mycorrhizal associations, which afford them vastly greater capacity to scavenge nutrients in low fertility soils,” Reeske wrote in the grant proposal. But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. “Landrace and heritage varieties of grains.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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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. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), The researchers also discovered that while soil cultivation reduced the number of mycorrhizae, this was only significant in soils with a long history of continuous cultivation.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Small-scale farmers and ranchers have a crucial role to play in protecting our natural resources, conserving water, and improving soil health to cultivate thriving agricultural futures. “ Fertile Futures” artwork by Molly Costello. The Small Farm Conservation Act (S.2180)

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Small-scale farmers and ranchers have a crucial role to play in protecting our natural resources, conserving water, and improving soil health to cultivate thriving agricultural futures. “ Fertile Futures” artwork by Molly Costello. The Small Farm Conservation Act (S.2180)

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 2, 2024

Darcy Maulsby, a fifth-generation Calhoun County, Iowa farmer, has been speaking with farmers in her area for years to get a policy around foreign ownership of farmland in the books. There is no policy concerning foreign ownership of farmland in the Iowa policy book, according to Maulsby. million in revenue and $31.7

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. Farms are consolidating as small producers struggle with rising costs, changing weather conditions, and other challenges.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

And that’s after the corn is planted, doused with fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, shielded from weeds and insects with toxic chemicals, and harvested. As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars. As a result, the portion of the U.S. deaths each year.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. Peru still had only 100,000 acres of palm under cultivation, and Melka was seeking to triple that number, according to a documentary film, “ The King of Cocaland.”

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