Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Amy Scanes-Wolfe harvesting sunflowers at Niwot Homestead. Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. It had contracts in place, and it would pay homeowners for city water use by comparing bills to previous years.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. She harvests the holly during winter to sell as holiday greenery. The NRCS will invest $1.4

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Farming Farming Crop Production 108

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.

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Science Seeding Technology Greenhouse 59

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. 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.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

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. My previous post was focused on the carbon footprint of crop transportation from the lettuce production regions on the West Coast of the US to East Coast Markets.

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Cultivation Vertical Farming Acre Yield 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We It’s a greenwashing scheme.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97

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. percent Black.

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Crop Farmland Acre Food 126

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. Agriculture is responsible for 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

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. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. By 2050, without cuts to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions (known as the business-as-usual scenario), that portion will jump to 39 percent.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 75

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. states have standards for panel height and shading. states have standards for panel height and shading.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The previous evening, when I had closed up the greenhouse for the night, there had been a perfect row of beautiful young pepper plants just getting ready to flower. Yet, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, more and more wildlife habitat is being taken away and turned into housing developments or converted into farmland.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 139

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

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. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. Height of nimbleness?

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Farming Farming Fertilizer Food 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Since October, 40% of Gaza’s total farmland has been destroyed by bombs and bulldozers. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It had been a brutal harvest for Ohios farmers. But in Central Ohio, a farmer recently sold 227 acres of farmland to Microsoft for $29 million. The monotonous succession of stricken row crops flashed by.

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Acre Construction Ruralism Harvesting 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

And that’s after the corn is planted, doused with fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, shielded from weeds and insects with toxic chemicals, and harvested. As a result, we devote about 30 million acres of prime farmland—an area the size of Virginia—to growing fuel for our cars. As a result, the portion of the U.S.

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Acre Crop Fertilizer Greenhouse 119

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025. In October, the administration unveiled a national strategy to reduce food waste , which is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmworkers harvest zucchini in Florida. According to the USDA, more than 21,000 farms and 5.2 Bidens USDA also invested $2.2

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