Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts. Now 27, DiLillo has seen his business blossom.

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Food Politics

JULY 18, 2024

s growing and harvesting seasons are over. There is no product from this farm on the market and likely no ongoing risk to the public. Contaminated water used to cultivate fresh produce is a well-known cause of recurrent foodborne illness outbreaks. Bedner Growers, Inc.’s Oklahoma Law Review, Vol.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The autumn season in the Northern Hemisphere is centered on the post-harvest period, which is equally as important as planting and cultivation. Timing the Harvest Grapes, known for their delicate nature and significance in winemaking and culinary delights, require precise timing during harvesting.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The grape varieties and vegetables now optimally grown in the climate of Napa Valley, California today will have a tough time reaching harvest there in 2080, but can be more easily grown near the Willamette Valley and Portland, Oregon. The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. In the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. billion market. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last fall, Ava Taesali opened Kava Queen , Oahus only brick-and-mortar kava bar, after three years of building a loyal following for this traditional beverage at farmers markets in Honolulu. There are so many misconceptions about kava, Taesali said, adding that official recognition is key to changing the narrative. And in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Collectively, they cultivate seven different varieties, including the organizations signatures: Black Joy, Creole Country Red,” Black Belt Sticky, and Jubilee Justice Jasmine. Lotus Foods primarily works with farmers overseas, but teamed up with Mason to work on bringing Jubilee Justice rice to market.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Community Farmers Markets (CFM) Serving as an umbrella organization, CFM was established to meet the demand for more efficiently managed, community-based and sustainable farmers’ markets in Atlanta. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

A farm stop sells food on consignment from nearby small and medium farms, landing it somewhere between a grocery store, a farmers’ market, and a food hub. Here, farmers deliver freshly harvested produce to a brick-and-mortar retail shop with a full staff. FARMacy also cultivates learning and gathering around food, Nazeer says.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In their scheme sanitized “labs” and great machines out in the lifeless terrain of endless mono crop “fields” will harvest the new foodstuff needed to make the “Plant-Based” ingredients for New York’s chefs and cooks to practice their magical craft upon.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 21, 2024

The United States is now the second country, after Singapore, to approve the sale of cultivated meat. Cultivated meat is an application of the newest category of animal products: the animal cell itself. Like conventional meat, cultivated meat contains animal muscle, fat, and collagen. percent, lamb 4.4 percent, and beef only 1.9

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s.

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DTN

JULY 9, 2024

As harvest season approaches, grain traders face unique challenges. Ever-evolving global markets, unpredictable weather patterns, and fluctuating supply chains have created a complex environment that demands expertise and adaptability. Within the global market, disruptions in one part of the world can have far-reaching consequences.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

My previous post was focused on the carbon footprint of crop transportation from the lettuce production regions on the West Coast of the US to East Coast Markets. In order to properly address soil cultivation carbon impact, all of these must be included. of the American Farmland Trust. When we add another 0.31

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

From breeding and cultivation to testing and delivery, the cannabis blockchain captures a digital snapshot of every major step of production, distribution and sale, locking them into an immutable digital ledger. Doc Ray has been breeding and cultivating medical cannabis strains for nearly 50 years.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Because with farm leases that only cover up to three years at a time, the threat of the landlord selling out to a pricey condo developer has hung over every kale and garlic harvest. The market forces were pressuring them to get out of this work that we all love so deeply. Unfortunately, the scenario is a common one.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market As seaweed farms develop on both coasts and begin to contribute to America’s blue economy, much depends on infrastructure. it will take a long time to build a market for American-grown kelp. Supported by $6.2 million in Series A funding, for a total of $22 million from U.S. and] people realized.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Cultivation Technology Cultivation technology lies at the center of many strategies and modern CEAs. When reviewing a CEA operation, we ask the questions: “What is the cultivation system being used? Companies developing these novel cultivation systems are typically motivated by lowering their CapEx.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Increase Productivity One major reason to adopt tractor farming is that it makes it possible to cultivate larger areas in less time, with less hired help, and less backbreaking work. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Proper tilling and cultivation help with pest management.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Currently, Oshi’s products are only available in local retailers around Seattle and farmer’s markets, but it has plans to expand the brand to retailers nationwide. And, of course, there’s the most technologically advanced option for salmon lovers: lab-grown, cell-cultivated salmon. Photography courtesy of Oshi.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Tetrick is the co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which operates Good Meat , one of two companies approved by the USDA in June to begin selling cultivated, or lab-grown, chicken in the United States. So, our focus is how does cultivating meat ultimately replace a large-scale production of animal protein?” The lab at Good Meat.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. Hailing from a commercial lobstering family in Maine, Patryn sees cultivating this marine crop as a lifeline for a community threatened by fishing’s uncertain future. Given all that, the market, which stood at $15 billion two years ago, is projected to hit $24.92

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Krishna Bista grew up on a diversified farm in her native Bhutan, where her family cultivated sweet potatoes, ginger, corn, wheat, millet, citrus and cardamom. For Doli Wikongo, a refugee farmer employee who grew up cultivating bananas and rice in her native Congo, New Leaf has been a lifeline.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. Many growers see it as a bottleneck: Propagation from wild-harvested seaweed is costly, lengthy, and ties rural coastal communities to laboratories that are often hours, if not days, away.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 24, 2023

Research on the sustainability of cannabis cultivation, although nascent because of its illegal federal status, indicates an array of environmental impacts. Those numbers don’t concern Andrew Mahon, head of cultivation at Veritas in Denver. “We We built our own irrigation system to fit the style of growing we do,” he says.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. Nevertheless, CAFOs are also the basis of a “hyper-efficient” commodity system, says Renee Cheung, managing partner at Bonterre Partners , an impact investment advisory firm for regenerative agriculture and co-author of a market analysis of grass-fed beef.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils. Gardeners also share their food for free or sell produce and other locally made products at farmers’ markets and CSAs.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Photo credits: Dana Honn) Chefs can be part of the next chapter of this story, not only by telling the history of a food but also by helping build a sustainable market for its future.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

Investing in new market opportunities for grains — like the sustainable grain market — is no different. The market for sustainable ingredients is continually expanding due to an increasing number of food, pet food, and biofuel companies setting goals to reduce their environmental impacts. What makes grain sustainable?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When Albania emerged from Communist rule in 1990, collective farms were dismantled, heralding a move to a market economy. My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Higher Yields: Growing multiple crops together can lead to a more abundant overall harvest, even in smaller spaces. Market Demand: It may be necessary to find markets for multiple crop types, which can be more challenging than selling a single crop. Cons : Risk: Relying solely on one crop can be riskier, as a single issue (e.g.,

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

We race around all winter getting ready and then all spring planting, all summer harvesting, all fall cleaning up, cramming these tasks amid all the computer and outreach work, the deliveries and farmers markets and all the hundred tiny farm emergencies and dramas that pop up each day.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires linked to human-caused rises in global temperatures and changing weather patterns are decimating harvests of essential food crops around the world, driving a crisis in global hunger never before seen in the modern era. Mustard yields are way down The global mustard market is worth about $6.87

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microgreens are young vegetables harvested just after the cotyledon leaves have developed, typically seven and 21 days. In contrast, sprouts are germinated seeds harvested much earlier, usually within two to seven days. This difference in harvesting time is just the beginning of what distinguishes these two nutritious greens.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. We can wonder, then, why we don’t see dry pasta noodles marketed strictly as “wheat?” A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road. Perhaps, we’re asking the wrong question.

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