Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. Its like full circle. Farming for us was like a chore, he says.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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

Unfortunately, delays in the federal appropriations process for FY 2024 and a risk of government shutdown threaten timely passage of the 2023 farm bill. 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.

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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. For example, PM2.5

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

By Cody Brown and Darron Gaus , NCAT Agriculture Specialists Carbon Farm Planning is a rewarding process for producers and conservation planners, as we “dig deep” and find all the potential carbon sinks and soil health practices that can be implemented across the landscape. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner.

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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

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. Barriers to owning, operating, and modernizing farmland date back over a century. percent today.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

To significantly reduce the land sinking process, there needs to be a significant increase in groundwater levels. Agricultural nitrate comes from fertilizers and is linked to several health conditions, including “blue baby syndrome”, miscarriages, and other conditions. I believe there is: strategic cropland repurposing.

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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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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. Photo courtesy of Chris Rauch) Rauch is one of many farmers taking a chance on a new process called Enhanced Rock Weathering, or ERW. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

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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Farming Farming Ruralism Farmland 59

Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

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. Since there are so many we have a few tips to help you in the process.

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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. Ultimately, hurricanes and high-pressure systems are “large-scale dynamics that occur at a planetary scale”—and unlikely to be influenced by local processes. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of the farmer) Earlier this year, a group of GOP Congressmembers began proposing that Congress use the farm bill reauthorization process as an opportunity to redirect these resources away from increasingly popular climate-focused conservation programs and instead add them to the general farm bill budget.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

“Depending on how strict the USDA inspector is, it can require the farm and the processing facility to update their HACCP plan just to capture something for us.” It isn’t hard to get something going, but [it] does require investment in the machinery to accomplish the process,” says Arnold.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We ” The chickens in that system eat more grain than chickens raised solely in a barn because they move around much more.

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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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Fertilizer Compost Processing Farmland 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. Growers get discounted dumping fees for cleaning, separating, and bundling products, all of which streamline the recycling process.)

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lake Shasta, built in 1945 to meet the needs of six million residents and irrigate a third of California’s farmland is at 33 percent capacity. They are further processed into almond milk for folks who don’t want to drink real cows’ milk. That happened long before automobiles and chemical fertilizers. Almond milk.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

invest in deeper root development and have greater mycorrhizal associations, which afford them vastly greater capacity to scavenge nutrients in low fertility soils,” Reeske wrote in the grant proposal. Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. “Landrace and heritage varieties of grains. Craig “Dr.

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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 counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow.

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Agwired

JANUARY 19, 2024

Scientists at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) use innovative technology to study the lifecycle of potatoes (including development, production, and postharvest storage), ensuring a high-quality supply year-round for snack food processing facilities, restaurants, and grocery stores.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

This chemical process is called pyrolysis, and produces charcoal, or, biochar. The repeated application of biochar over many years turned these nutrient-poor soils into fertile agricultural land. Available carbon is biomass that can readily be converted to carbon dioxide by processes like burning and soil microbial activity.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

These technologies provide high-resolution images of farmland, allowing farmers to detect stress factors such as nutrient deficiencies, waterlogging, pest infestations, or disease outbreaks before they become widespread. Traditional crop insurance often involves lengthy claim processes.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

Quantifying carbon emissions and sequestration isn’t a simple process, and neither is navigating carbon market opportunities. Grey explained that the data is not only collected from remote sensing, but also estimates some of the “unseeable” data like fertilization practices.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

They tend to be more productive than larger, conventional farms, and have a stronger commitment to protecting soil fertility and productivity in the long run. The Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Organic] amendments are more expensive than industrial fertilizers.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Our cover crop cocktail has resulted in an immense reduction in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He’s especially proud of the fact that because of his self-sustaining system that produces natural fertilizers for his crops, he hasn’t purchased a pound of nitrogen since 1982. To create its own Angus beef supply , it acquired a stake in a processing plant project in Nebraska and partnered with cattle feeders in Texas.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is the result of rapid advances in precision biology that have allowed us to make huge strides in precision fermentation, a process that allows us to program microorganisms to produce almost any complex organic molecule. Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. We estimate this will total more than $100bn.

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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. The field is further ingrained in the local and state economy.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

Whitney is an owner and operator of JW Farms and Ranch, a family-owned agricultural producer with lot stock operations in southern Oklahoma and farmland in eastern Colorado. I’m enthusiastic about this conversation, where it may lead us today, and the educational process that will come on both sides of the table.

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