Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: Let’s start with the basics.

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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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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Organic recycling company Denali today announced it has transformed over 10 billion pounds of organic byproducts into natural fertilizers, according to its newly released third annual sustainability report detailing findings from 2023. Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5%

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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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Food Politics

JANUARY 30, 2025

But I sure noticed this one in the New York Times: Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. The company, Synagro, sells farmers treated sludge from factories and homes to use as fertilizer. Even as PFAS has turned up in wastewater , the government has continued to promote the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Deer, for example, help cycle nutrients and fertilize soil. It affects the type of habitats that the animals can use.”

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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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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He was paid to plant it by the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program , a local effort that seeks to reduce overall fertilizer use by building soil—therefore cutting down on the nutrients that enter waterways—while helping farmers save money. farmland is regularly cover cropped.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost.

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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 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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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

A couple of weeks ago the media was abuzz about Bill Gates being the new largest farmland owner in the U.S. Unlike Turner, Gates is buying cropland (farmland) not ranch land. Interestingly, this crop land became fertile only after centuries of perennials under herbivorous choreography. The difference is important.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer. million by the National Resources Conservation Service to study nutrient runoff from manure fertilizer. billion pounds.

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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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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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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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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

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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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Richard reports, stunningly, that he is sequestering 10 times more carbon than the farm is omitting, and this is despite the fact that he built his fertility with beef cattle. It is up to us as citizens to protest about the way in which chemical agriculture has become the norm on more than 90% of the farmland of the UK.

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