Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Kiawah River worked with established farms to begin its agrihood, building a community around preexisting farmland. Other agrihoods establish farms as central hubs when planning the community.

Farmland 128

Farmland Food Farming Farming 128

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Transparent tarps nailed to the ends of a half-finished greenhouse whipped in the wind behind him. Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build.

Crop 126

Crop Farmland Acre Food 126

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much non-recyclable packaging. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much?

Food 109

Food Farming Farming Compost 109

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. Farmers were hurting, consumers were worried, and Maine’s food system looked to be in crisis.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. food system more resilient. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. Grocery stores are scarce.

Acre 99

Acre Crop Farming Farming 99

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. Then there’s the Walmart Foundation, which last year gave the Nature Conservancy $1.5

Supply Chain 145

Supply Chain Food Acre Agriculture 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food. But it carries the highest risks.” percent of global emissions.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

CGI believes that 53% of the UN’s goal for net greenhouse gas reductions can be achieved by these practices that produce more food by increasing soil organic matter and integrating trees into the farming systems. A farm in La Pedregosa, Panama after transitioning to agroecology practices with SHI.

Harvest 103

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Agroecology 103

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” with the Berkeley Food Institute, and this conclusion seemed to fly in the face of all that I’d read.

Agroecology 97

Agroecology Yield Food Acre 97

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

full_link LEARN MORE How farmers are adapting to Phoenix’s rising temperatures to keep growing food. But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. It’s complicated.

Agriculture 71

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 71

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Theres hardly any of us left.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

Acre 52

Acre Production Crop Greenhouse 52

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“I see it as a key player for maintaining food security for the 10 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050.” I see it as a key player in dealing with heat extremes, with drought, with salinity, and other challenges that significantly impact our food, water, and energy security.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The volatility of wet and dry years, the lack of water infrastructure, and the continued depletion of groundwater resources adds up to California losing its resilience to cope with future droughts and to preserve future food security. Agriculture is the main water user in California by far, accounting for 80% of the water use in the state.

Ruralism 125

Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 125

National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Our food systems are a critical lever to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement and build a sustainable, equitable, and resilient future that enables people and nature to prosper. We hope governments around the world will make a political statement and investments that acknowledge the important role of food systems in the climate agenda.

Food 45

Food Ranching Mechanics Farming 45

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

That’s the conclusion researchers came to in a study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems earlier this year, which found that a slew of soil-building practices, especially in combination, added more carbon to soils when used in vineyards compared to being used on annual cropland. “If we take this as a holistic system.

Farming 143

Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace.

Science 76

Science Production Food Cattle 76

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. I had primarily done cut flowers as annual crops or grew in a greenhouse, so I didn’t have a lot of experience or knowledge of perennials.

Farming 106

Farming Farming Crop Production 106

National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

The testimonies presented during the hearing underscored the profound economic pressures and mental health strains experienced by farmers nationwide, which directly impact their ability to secure and maintain farmland. 3955) would provide essential funding for programs aimed at expanding access to affordable farmland for young farmers.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Farmland Ruralism 40

CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Crucial Role of Farm Bill Advocacy The farm bill covers a wide range of agriculture and nutrition policy that has a huge impact on how our food is grown and who has access to it, and what resources farmers and ranchers will have for conservation practices, crop insurance, research, and much more. agriculture by the year 2040.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Manure Pasture 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. By one estimate, storing an extra 2 percent of carbon in soil would return atmospheric greenhouse gases to “safe” levels.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

Midwestern corn and soybean growers earned more than $140,000 in 2023 for reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased soil carbon through implementing regenerative agriculture practices. These producers received both payments and technical assistance from Nutrien Ag Solutions as part of their participation in Eco-Harvest pilot projects.

Science 59

Science Seeding Technology Greenhouse 59

Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse. We hear about how the food system is broken,” says Watts.

Farming 133

Farming Farming Poultry Contract Farming 133

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Robb sees his work of coaxing beneficial fungi back into the soil, which he largely learned from an online program called the Soil Food Web School , as both a challenge to mainstream agriculture and as a way forward to restore agricultural soils. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

Farming 144

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. But now, people outside the industry are paying attention to how crops are grown, as an increasing number of food companies, grain buyers, and consumers seek ingredients grown using sustainable practices. Cover crops are a good example of this.

Grain 52

Grain Agriculture Agriculture Marketing 52

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Since then, technology in the field continues to advance and reimagine our food systems. of the American Farmland Trust. This study includes an analysis of nearly 200,000 acres of California lettuce farmland that is analyzed using two separate analytical tools.

Cultivation 52

Cultivation Vertical Farming Acre Yield 52

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. Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

I ran into a neighbor last week who said to me, “Oh, you must be excited about this year and how good it’s going to be for you with food prices rising for once.” Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Fertilizer Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. We see Walmart or shitty food or HelloFresh as competition—not each other.” A decade later, the collective is still thriving. “We’re

Grain 144

Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

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. agriculture toward more diverse landscapes that directly reduce greenhouse gasses and increase agrobiodiversity. All of these policies help to shift U.S.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Roberts noted that toxic fescue exudes fluids that “pretty much destroy the food web,” poisoning insects that quail and other creatures feed on.

Ranching 110

Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 110

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Putting a value on this carbon (and other greenhouse gases) is not a simple matter and various pricing mechanisms exist. Alongside government incentives, it is hoped that carbon offsetting and the newly evolving nature markets will help farmers profitably produce good quality food from a sustainably managed and healthy landscape.

Finance 52

Finance Marketing Farming Farming 52

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Editor’s Note: Projects such as this proposed “agri-hood” are reimagining the ways in which communities can provide access to housing and food security through frameworks of racial justice, collaborative leadership, and environmental sustainability. It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Real Estate 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

For Jenna and Thomas, both teachers by trade, it was always a dream to build a life off-grid and grow organic food for their community. In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The pandemic and subsequent higher food prices have boosted interest in farming differently, several ag experts said. The organization works with growers and food hubs in eastern and central Iowa counties. Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres.

Food 123

Food Acre Greenhouse Farming 123

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Read more Nutrition and Food Access This concept has precedent. Want goodies from the USDA?

Food 97

Food Farmland Greenhouse Farming 97