Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This will allow the project to preserve at least 200 acres of working farmland. If successful, this experiment could become a replicable model for farmland conservation. Despite its long tenure as farmland, the former Tillman Dairy was actually zoned residential. Aiello drives a shared tractor. It can be both.

Farmland 88

Farmland Acre Farming Farming 88

Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

sales of Ag tractors and combines fell during January 2025 compared to the year before. sales of Ag tractors dropped 15.8 Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer. percent, while U.S. sales of combines fell 78.9 billion pounds.

Textiles 45

Textiles Poultry Tractor Supply Chain 45

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

Farming 140

Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 140

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.; When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him.

Acre 103

Acre Crop Farming Farming 103

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. As a result, carbon stored in vineyard soils won’t ever add up to a meaningful reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. “Soil carbon sequestration is one indicator that we’re on the right track.”

Farming 142

Farming Farming Meadow Crop 142

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144