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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. Similarly, in 2015 , 51 percent of the value of US farm production came from farms with at least $1 million in sales, compared to 31 percent in 1991. 21, 2024.
Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. A childhood photo from the family farm.
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Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. But Black farm ownership has dropped dramatically over the years, with just 1,500 estimated to remain in Arkansas today. His brother and late father, Harvey Sr.,
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.
Daily Yonder
MARCH 4, 2024
Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas. Family members share that risk.
Modern Farmer
JUNE 6, 2024
After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine. Combine or tractor harvesting destroys eggs and can even result in the deaths of birds.
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