Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

As news of weed killer resistant plants hits the headlines, Patrick Holden reflects on discussions at the latest Oxford Real Farming Conference, highlighting why the plough may not be the worst option when it comes to nature-friendly cultivation. In parallel, Richard Gantlett, who is somewhat of a data geek (I mean that as a compliment!),

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Participation requirements on the farms vary.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

AUGUST 28, 2023

Farmland Values Since 2020 As mentioned earlier, farmland values have surged higher since 2020. Given the economy-wide inflationary pressure, farmland value gains for some regions of the country – notably the South, Southwest, and West – could be disappointing when adjusted for inflation. While slower than the 14.3%

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

Understanding farmland market trends is crucial to risk management for landowners, farmers, and ranchers alike. farmland market trends directly affect the equity and borrowing power of rural landowners. Overview of the 2024 Farmland Market The U.S. National Trends Farmland values in the U.S. farmland market.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. Then he asks: “I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?” In it, farmland is turned into a subdivision, a sign of “progress.”

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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). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 It is always overdrawn.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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American Farmland

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Rather than a typical farm, the mountaintop looks unkempt, uninhabited, overgrown. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. Farm Hounds jerky.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. The privatization of land in the 1850s gave rise to large sugarcane and pineapple plantations—a huge divergence from Native practices of sustainable and diverse farming on communally held plots.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Though San Diego is home to more small farms than any county in the U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 7, 2024

American Farmland Trust is accepting applications for the Brighter Future Fund’s New England Regenerative Livestock Farming Grants. Projects can include fencing, cover crop seeds, reduced tillage equipment, irrigation, pasture establishment, pollinator habitat, and other conservation practices.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Congress let the last farm bill expire at the end of September, I was navigating an ongoing drought on my Iowa farm for the third year in a row. Meanwhile, it may be months before lawmakers can agree on a new farm bill. Iowa is known for its lush, green summers and abundant rivers and streams.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., Farmland Reserve Inc. The church likely originally purchased land in Nebraska through its nonprofit, Farmland Reserve Inc., By that point, the church had already purchased more than 200,000 acres of Nebraska ag land under Farmland Reserve Inc.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

But on Mallonee Farms , a Washington State dairy farm , things are different. Only found in small areas of prairie grassland west of the Cascade Mountains, Mallonee Farms is the northernmost epicenter for the lupine in the US. In most instances, farmers will spray the plant with herbicide and kill it.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The news hasnt really shown the devastation wreaked on the farms and forests in our area. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. Gene has a small beef farm with 15 cow/calf pairs and raises 1.5

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. The original farm bill was enacted during the 1930s in part as a response to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and was an element of President Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the time, Corse was working off farm, while her parents transitioned their dairy into an organic operation. But Corse didn’t want the farm to disappear. She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

His farm lies on the Columbia Plateau, a 63,000-square-mile basin formed by ancient basalt lava flows. Chris Rauch’s Oregon farm lies on the Columbia Plateau, a region that has seen increasing levels of soil acidity. Then they truck it to farms, where it is used in place of ag lime. “That’s crazy,” he thought.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

Earlier this year, I put a call out for help preparing my farm for spring. Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland. Together, we raised sheep, pigs and chickens.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

And just as alfalfa fixes nitrogen, builds soil, fights erosion and feeds livestock, community solar lowers energy costs, can make the local electric grid more reliable and brings money and jobs through labor and income, such as farmland leases, to the area. A solar project located at Gedney Landfill in White Plains, NY.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Stewart Bartz, local farmer and a leader in the Hay River Farmer-Led Watershed Council, spoke about his farming practices. The Bartz family has been farming in Dunn and St. But crops are also an important part of the farm’s whole picture. Work with public officials to keep communities farming friendly.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Attending this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier this month, SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, shares more on the sessions that took place, in her round-up article on this year’s event. chemically based) farmland in the Green Alliance modelling got some strong push-back from the audience.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter. How did America Establish Today’s Farming Methods?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Flat, sprawling farm fields fill the screen. She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon. As the planet faces a climate and biodiversity crisis, the family’s investments could coincide with a fundamental supply shift at Walmart, driving truly resilient, regenerative farming at scale.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He continued, “We’re very grateful to have the seashore’s federally recognized and affiliated tribe be part of this project.” “By getting rid of these small family farms, we’re forcing dairy farms to get bigger and bigger and the whole food system to be less environmentally friendly and produce lower-quality food that’s not organic.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. And that’s by design. Photo courtesy of Wil Crombe/Organic Compound.) Regenerative is a complex term with many interpretations.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

His history working in a corporate environment led him to think more about what was important to him—the land, local farming, and clean energy. This is more than a hobby-farming operation. We’re used to farming out the back door, and now we have sites spread hundreds of miles apart. The grazing fees make that cost affordable.”

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives.

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