Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, higher grain prices and weaker yields were the norm. In 2024, higher yields and weaker prices reigned. Strong sales still happen, but a pullback has occurred.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At night, and on weekends, he’s a serious sourdough bread baker—and an aspiring grain farmer. After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Landrace and heritage varieties of grains.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 11, 2024

China passed a new law to protection farmland and promote grain production. The USA isn't the only country with growing concern over its food security.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Policy-induced expansion of organic farmland: implications for food prices and welfare. Raising the organic cropland share in rich countries from 3-15% increases food prices in poor countries by about 2% on average for 4 major grains and oilseeds. Maybe mothers-in-law should calculate it. No word on what the LCA and nLCA looks like.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. The number of U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S. More than 75 percent of farmland in the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. Figure 1: ARC and PLC Leave Out 69 Percent of US Farm Acres (2023 Enrollment) Just eight states have a majority of farmland acres eligible to enroll in ARC and PLC. In 2023, there were 239.7 ARC and PLC Favor Corn, Soy, and Wheat Of the 239.7

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Commodity Prices Prices for grains, oilseeds, and cotton are expected to remain low, impacting crop farmers margins. Land Values and Cash Rents Farmland values are still rising, but growth is slowing. Livestock producers, especially cattle ranchers, will likely benefit from strong cattle prices and lower feed costs.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JULY 31, 2023

The farmland market in the second quarter of 2023 continued the transition that began earlier in the year. As discussed in previous articles ( here and here ), farmland is a long-term investment, and one must look at expected future income to make informed decisions about what to pay today for the land.

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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. Testing, however, is only the first step towards regaining use of PFAS contaminated farmland. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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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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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.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. Drying rice at the Jubilee Justice mill, November 2024.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units. If only my attempts at patchwork quilting looked as neat as this, I thought.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JANUARY 21, 2024

The influx of cash from government payments and profits propelled cash available to purchase farmland boosting demand and competitive bidding. Figure 6 – Factors Affecting the 2023 Farmland Market. Wrapping it Up As has been discussed previously, multiple factors have supported higher farmland prices. Figure 8 – Annual U.S.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These products are, in fact, deeply rooted in a sense of place that is so much more complex than tidy rows of vineyards, hops, or grains convey at first glance. Your personal bar cart may seem far removed from forests and farmlands, but they are inextricably linked. Soter Vineyards. Photography by Josh Chang. Mijenta Tequila.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. Because most grains need to be replanted every season, it’s hard for even regenerative farmers to minimize the disturbance to their land and build biodiversity, says Tim Crews, Chief Scientist & Director of the International Initiative at The Land Institute.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Year-end inventories of major grains, oilseeds, poultry and dairy products are projected to increase in 2024. 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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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

In Part One, Feedgood, a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, outlines a public framework and presents principles and practices for food systems planning. And in Part Two, she shows readers the policies and programs that support farming systems, sustain agriculture, and bolster community food security.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Strengthening the land—and the people who steward it—is central to creating a more resilient and nourishing future, farmers and food system leaders said during a Climate Week NYC event convened by Food Tank and the American Farmland Trust. But, as panelists discussed, the U.S. Biodiversity is our real crop insurance,” he continues.

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sincerely, Agricultural Retailers Association American Agri-Women American Association of Crop Insurers American Bankers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Farmland Trust American Malting Barley Association American Property and Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) American Seed Trade Association American Sesame Growers Association (..)

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. With a loss of nearly 142,000 farms, the number of U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies (ASA, CSSA, SSSA) AgTexas Farm Credit Alabama Ag Credit Alabama Farm Credit Altamaha Riverkeeper Amcot American Beekeeping Federation American Biogas Council American Bird Conservancy American Chestnut Land Trust American Farm Bureau Federation American Farmland Trust American Pulse Association American Rivers (..)

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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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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

American Farmland Trust’s Water Initiative has released a three-factsheet series on A Farmer’s Guide to Soil Health Economics. The two-page guides are focused on corn, soybean, and small-grain production systems.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. Adding insult to injury, EU authorities allowed the import of cheap Ukrainian grain to assist that country in its ongoing war with Russia.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

I think, especially for new and beginning farmers, it’s hard to start farming – especially if you don’t have that generational access to farmland,” said Lisa Buckner, education coordinator for the NFU. We’ll have large-scale grain farmers in the Midwest to really small urban farmers in cities like Detroit and St.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Banners are hung, grain samples are on display, and a voice over a megaphone invites the crowd’s attention. Pearl millet is a small, round grain that feeds vast swaths of sub-Saharan Africa. The seedball caravan has arrived. They’re speaking to thousands of people about this unassuming little item.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. We truly have been doing this in a relational way.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

In July, a team of researchers led by Kate Tully at the University of Maryland published a paper that mapped the extent of saltwater intrusion onto Delaware and Maryland farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula for the first time.

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. The 45Z Clean Fuel Credit, which takes effect in 2025, incentivizes biofuel and ethanol producers to increase production of renewable fuels using low carbon-intensive grains.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers. ppm for nitrates. Each year, the measurement in their water kept creeping up.

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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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