Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public. Because of the loss of soil health, fertilizer response has reduced drastically.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 24, 2024

The 2024 cotton planting season proved mostly ideal, a rarity with the area's rich, fertile farmland that hugs the Atlantic Coastline.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. The legumes replenish nitrogen in the soil, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers while also improving soil structure and reducing pest and disease pressure.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. A report by the U.N.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Different economic drivers are influencing the value of farmland across the U.S. Fertilizer prices have been a challenge to all growers, along with labor. Fertilizer prices have been a challenge to all growers, along with labor. Farmland values reflect the increased profitability seen in 2022.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Input Costs Costs for feed, fertilizer, and pesticides are stabilizing or decreasing, helping to offset financial strain. Land Values and Cash Rents Farmland values are still rising, but growth is slowing. Commodity Prices Prices for grains, oilseeds, and cotton are expected to remain low, impacting crop farmers margins.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This excess fertility has value when you purchase farmland and the value of the “excess” is allowed to be deducted, usually over about 3 years. In order to properly document this deduction, you should get an agronomist to workup the value of the excess fertility. Actual purchase of $7,500 multiplied by 35% = $2,625.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer in Maine was documented thanks to licensing requirements to apply biosolids. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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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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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

EVERY square inch of all those "brown areas" have been treated with various chemicals and fertilizers. Is it any wonder that our surface waters are filled with sediment, and fertilizer, and chemicals? Is it any wonder that our surface waters are filled with sediment, and fertilizer, and chemicals?

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

The hurricane’s downpour resulted in severe flooding, eroding topsoil and depositing debris combined with hazardous materials across businesses, homes, and farmlands. This loss of fertile topsoil will pose long-term challenges for crop production and soil health. Farmers faced dire situations. Click here for a comprehensive list.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Because, first of all, it excludes recommendations for so-called grade one and two farmland, presumably based on the assumption it will be business as usual on the best farmland, in other words continuous arable cropping to increase the amount of food from those areas where we have the best soils.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

But soil quality, pest control, crop rotation, and fertilizers are all used to produce quality sod. We also chatted about the farmland converted into solar panels—the area around Red Hen Turf Farm has a lot of them. Gordon said it’s great for marginal farmland (or, land that doesn’t produce well).

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Years of indiscriminate use of ‘forever chemicals’ in various products, from fertilizers to firefighting foams, has led to alarmingly high PFAS levels in our soils and water,” Klemperer says. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection now has clearer information and more resources available for farmers.

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Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land. Get the most out of your farmland.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The immense counterweight to all of these restrictions is that land use laws are in place for a reason: to protect the integrity of farmland. Across the country, millions of acres of farmland have been lost over the last 30 years, due to development and other forms of land conversion. And we’re not alone.”

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

JUNE 3, 2024

The North Carolina Blacklands, with its rich, fertile farmland that hugs the Atlantic Coastline, usually has cool and wet weather in spring, but this year had […] Read More

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes. Denali regional manager Mark Fischer landowner Lawana Gill, farmer Jamie Marion, and JB Hunt driver Jeff Johnson with a truckload of hay that is enroute to support ranchers in the Texas Panhandle.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is on top of record-high farm debt, higher borrowing costs, higher break-even levels and likely downward pressure on farmland asset values due to higher interest rates. It is reasonable to expect that farm income may be even lower in 2024.

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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. Among their efforts is the formation of the seedball caravan.

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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.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Hard truth: we have to use farmland differently Strategic cropland repurposing is the change in land use from an economic activity that produces negative side effects (such as harming people’s health and the environment) to new land uses that produce positive side effects. I believe there is: strategic cropland repurposing.

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Caff

MARCH 22, 2024

Gullies pose many threats to farmland, including the removal of fertile topsoil, damage to infrastructure, danger to livestock, and decreased water quality. Also, due to loss of protective vegetation, erosion can increase after wildfire. This practice also raises the water table, improving resilience to wildfire.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Between the years 2017 and 2022, America lost almost 20 million acres of farmland. Although some categories like labor, machinery, and insurance are predicted to increase, other categories like fertilizers and chemicals are expected to decline. Farmland remains a crucial asset. Farms are consolidating.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. The state has developed the country’s first meaningful thresholds for the chemicals in some foods and soil, has banned the use of sludge as fertilizer, and will, by 2030, ban the sale of all products with intentionally added PFAS.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day. Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

The farmland market is historically strong, and home values in agriculture-heavy states are rising rapidly. The Implications of Rising Property Tax for Rural Landowners High land values seem like a good thing, but the downside is that when the value of farmland goes up, the taxes farmers pay on that land also go up.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. How to lease farmland for alternative energy Why you should join or start a farm cooperative Is a CSA right for you The government offers a number of programs for young farmers.

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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. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.” At its peak, sugar cane covered nearly a fifth of the island of Maui.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

farmland as a way to diversify and increase revenue streams. For instance, precision ag data can help farmers apply fertilizers and pesticides more accurately, leading to better crop health and reduced input costs. Land Use The rapid expansion of renewable energy projects raises concerns about the conversion of farmland.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland).

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Funding more and better conservation practices also helps grow farmers and protect farmland. The IRA conservation dollars fund programs that offer direct financial support to new and existing practices on farms and they are much more inclusive than commodity programs.

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Organic Garden Farmer

JULY 11, 2021

The agricultural scientists trained by the chemical industry define soil as sand, silt, and clay mineral including added inorganic matter and NPK fertilizer to help with nutrient supply for proper plant growth. The great news is that it is possible to convert dirt or any soil with issues into a healthy fertile garden or farmland.

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Organic Garden Farmer

JULY 11, 2021

The agricultural scientists trained by the chemical industry define soil as sand, silt, and clay mineral including added inorganic matter and NPK fertilizer to help with nutrient supply for proper plant growth. The great news is that it is possible to convert dirt or any soil with issues into a healthy fertile garden or farmland.

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