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Farm Income Outlook for 2025 

Trimble Agriculture

Farm income is expected to take a turn in 2025, after two years of consecutive decline. agricultural economy faced financial headwinds in 2024, but new USDA farm income projections indicate that net farm income will increase in 2025, largely due to the substantial rise in government payments. Its no secret that the U.S.

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Farmhand Foundation: Cultivating Organic Change in Southern California

Food Tank

Department of Agriculture, only 1 percent of farmland in the United States is organic. Making the switch from conventional farming practices to organic is a three-year process, and comes with a series of steps. They will launch the first cohort in 2025 with three farms. According to the U.S.

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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public.

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European Big Ag in action

Food Politics

This gives Big Ag plenty of political clout, making it “”impossible to modify the CAP in ways that reduce the environmental impact of modern agricultural practices and promote sustainable farming.” If this sounds familiar, consider the US farm bill. Its bottom line: “Such capture of government by an interest group is dangerous.”

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders.

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It’s not the plough, but the how!

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Are environmentalists barking up the wrong tree when it comes to land use?

Sustainable Food Trust

Partly because I am old enough to remember that back in the 1950s and 60s, in other words before the widespread adoption of intensive chemical based farming, we used to produce food in harmony with nature at scale. Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides.

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