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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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage.

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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. Healthy soil can also produce healthier livestock. “If

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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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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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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

The San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the nation; it produced crops, livestock, and agricultural commodities worth $36.5 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. billion in 2022. in the air.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Between the years 2017 and 2022, America lost almost 20 million acres of farmland. Livestock purchases and labor came in second and third. Although some categories like labor, machinery, and insurance are predicted to increase, other categories like fertilizers and chemicals are expected to decline. Farms are consolidating.

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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. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1. Here are some other ideas on adding capital once you have land.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. Left unchecked, they’re fertile ground, experts say, for harboring fecund grasses and other non-native plants, trees and even deer.

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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 mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Livestock farmers who practice regenerative farming, improving soil and biodiversity with methods such as rotational grazing, strive to waste nothing and can still wind up with leftovers. Open Farm A new national strategy for reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030 includes “raising and breeding insects as livestock.”

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

French farmers, for instance, managed to persuade their nation’s leaders to ban food imports treated with the insecticide thiacloprid, dedicate €150 million (US$163 million) annually to support livestock producers and provide European-wide definitions for what constitutes lab-grown meat. Matters are much the same in the US.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

We might use that money to purchase land, buy equipment, or livestock. Ag Equity Line of Credit (AELOC) This line of credit is secured by the equity in the farmland rather than your inventory. Operating Loans These loans can cover daily expenses like seeds, fertilizer, livestock feed, and family living expenses.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. full_link LEARN MORE Find out why climate change has intensified fertilizer runoff. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Here, Brodie Crouch, a PhD student at The University of Queensland, unpacks how biodiversity and production win-wins can help livestock graziers to be part of the solution in tackling Australias extinction crisis whilst continuing to produce important nutrition. But its in trouble.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Summary of Marker Bills Converting Our Waste Sustainably (COWS) Act This bill would set up a new program in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions on dairy and other livestock operations. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland. The counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres. We know it can be done—farms that have diversified (crops), soil has improved, less fossil fuel used, less fertilizer used. They’re buying and interacting with businesses, to fix something, or to bank locally. They yield very high,” Carlson said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) announced the election of Brian Duncan, a grain and livestock farmer from Polo, Ogle County, as the organization’s 16th president, and Evan Hultine, a grain farmer from Princeton, Bureau County, as vice president. They will each serve a two-year term at the helm of the organization.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Plants and panels can exist in "symbiosis" Agrivoltaic solar parks see photovoltaic (PV) panels spaced further apart to allow more sunlight to reach the ground, and raised higher in the air so that crops – or even small livestock such as lambs – can be reared underneath. It's getting a lot of flack."

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Jubilee Justice supplies farmers who are a part of the Black Farmers Cohort with everything they need to get started with SRI, including seeds, equipment, minerals, fertilizers, labor support, and technical assistance. Most of Camptis land is dedicated to livestock, including sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens, while 2.5 percent today.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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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). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland.

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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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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. This rapid improvement is in stark contrast to the industrial livestock production model, which has all but reached its limits in terms of scale, reach, and efficiency.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

Farmers have reduced the amount of labor and land used to farm and increased inputs such as machinery, farm structures, fertilizer, and pesticides, according to the U.S. counties experiencing faster farmland consolidation. Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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