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 63

Farmland Acre Farming Farming 63

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 141

Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

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 143

Farming Farming Crop Meadow 143

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

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

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

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.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

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