ATTRA

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

American Farmland Trust (AFT) and Sol Systems announced an agrivoltaic initiative aimed at growing Kernza perennial grain under solar panels at the Eldorado Phase II project in Illinois.

Grain 52

Grain Farmland Forage Cultivation 52

NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The following recipients and projects received funding in the first round: American Farmland Trust, Washington D.C. Auburn, NY Future Harvest, Cockeysville, MD Glynwood Center, Inc., Auburn, NY Future Harvest, Cockeysville, MD Glynwood Center, Inc.,

Food 130

Food Supply Chain Forestry Agriculture 130

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs. 5 near Winnebago.

Farmland 127

Farmland Acre Food Farming 127

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In fact, EU farmers receive $1,000 per acre per year just for owning farmland. This drives up the price of farmland and makes it far more difficult for a young person to acquire agriculture property. In a strange twist, though, they can harvest wildlife and sell it into the public market. In the U.S.,

Harvest 75

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farmland 75

Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America.

Harvest 103

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Agroecology 103

Agricultural Economics Insights

JULY 31, 2023

The farmland market in the second quarter of 2023 continued the transition that began earlier in the year. The slower pace of listings and auctions continued in the second quarter and will be the starting place for the pre-harvest sale season. Recent Data Table 1 summarizes recent farmland reports.

Farmland 52

Farmland Marketing Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In November, her farm in Alexandria achieved a milestone by harvesting its first full acre of rice after three years of smaller trials, marking their best harvest yet. Isaacs face lit up as she reminisced about their amazing first harvest of four varieties. Mason remains optimistic, though, saying, Were getting there.

Plantation 125

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 125

American Farmland

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The post Celebrating Regenerative Agriculture and Organic Transition with Daily Harvest and California Certified Organic Farmers appeared first on American Farmland Trust.

Harvest 52

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Agriculture 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Increased and Reliable Production Smaller spaces can still produce impressive harvests. Therefore, they make sense when the price of farmland continues to rise and prime agricultural land falls out of production and/or is developed. But how do the farms compare? Are they better for the environment? More productive?

Vertical Farming 62

Vertical Farming Food Farming Farming 62

American Farmland

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Go from the bustling wholesale markets of the East Coast to the heart of Illinois, in this is a story of passion, legacy, and a profound connection with the land. ??

Marketing 98

Marketing Harvest Harvester Harvesting 98

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.

Food 78

Food Production Farmland Farming 78

The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest. Gordon even took us out to the field where we saw the harvester in action. Gordon explained that the harvester only takes a minimal amount of dirt with the grass. So it isn’t really an issue.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Crop Rotation Farmland 98

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.

Farming 145

Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

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.

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2020, Williams learned that King County was looking to lease and reactivate fallow farmland in the Sammamish River Valley. Dubois estimated that in 1875, Black farmers owned 3 million acres, less than 1 percent of the total farmland recorded in the 1870 agricultural census. Nationwide, an average acre of farmland costs $3,800.

Crop 126

Crop Farmland Acre Food 126

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland. We hire harvesters, harvest techs, high tunnel maintenance workers, farmers, and anyone who’s operating from the distribution side. We’re not actually disturbing our soil, which is our way of taking care of our land.

Farming 103

Farming Farming Distribution Harvest 103

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. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

Farming 96

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 96

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Across the road, peacocks shriek. They must be pets?

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Agritourism is any venture on a farm or ranch that’s not directly related to raising and harvesting produce or livestock commercially. Educating visitors, preserving farmland, and sharing agricultural heritage were named the top three most important benefits—but there are so many more. What is agritourism?

Farming 98

Farming Farming Farmland Finance 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland. We hire harvesters, harvest techs, high tunnel maintenance workers, farmers, and anyone who’s operating from the distribution side. We’re not actually disturbing our soil, which is our way of taking care of our land.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Distribution Food 97

ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Using tractors increases productivity and efficiency, leading to bigger harvests, better quality produce, and access to lucrative markets that require a larger volume of products. I am all too aware of the back pain that planting, weeding, and harvesting crops can lead to. Another barrier is knowledge. and Lewin, P.

Tractor 40

Tractor Farming Farming Cultivation 40

Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. But it is OK to call it a “harvest festival featuring a live music performance.” Photography by Topaz Farm) Other issues emerged. And we’re not alone.”

Farming 127

Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 127

Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mary Miller (R-IL); MO Ag Secretary Chris Chinn; and IA Ag Secretary Mike Naig The Syngenta Golden Harvest tent featured an Agricultural Outlook panel on the first day of the 2023 Farm Progress Show that provided perspectives from officials in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri on a host of ag policy issues. L-R: Spencer Chase, Agri-Pulse; Rep.

Harvest 59

Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farmland 59

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.

Food 133

Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

An example of how harvest may look like at a freight farm. Route 1 will hire three to five individuals to work the freight farm and will then distribute the food grown to local communities.

Ruralism 130

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 130

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. Cover crops are planted to protect and enhance the soil, rather than for the purpose of being harvested.

Crop 116

Crop Food Agriculture Agriculture 116

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Because with farm leases that only cover up to three years at a time, the threat of the landlord selling out to a pricey condo developer has hung over every kale and garlic harvest. I’d imagine a lot of farmland investors want to see numbers on a spreadsheet about how to maximize yield from acreage,” he says.

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. 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.

Farming 141

Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using farmland for solar panels, especially in the agriculture-heavy Midwest, is fraught with controversy. There has also been little research conducted in the Midwest, the heart of agriculture, where farmland is gold. Issues such as harvest timing and growing season will be studied, as well as climatic impacts.

Crop 134

Crop Production Science Agriculture 134

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. Here is our best food justice reporting this year.

Food 139

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 139

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. I do think vineyard operators are not under the same stress of harvesting kale and rushing to market five days a week, so there’s a real cushion,” Whitlow said. “It Grape harvest photo courtesy of Dodon.

Farming 143

Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

The photos represent most Midwestern farmland and much of the farmland in the continental U.S., I've found one of the most effective ways to positively impact the soil is to cover it completely with residue and living vegetation, and then allow animals to do the harvesting. Sadly, these are not "outlier" images.

Fertilizer 116

Fertilizer Crop Acre Farmland 116

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. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 73

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

As farmers seek to lease land for solar arrays to diversify their incomes, the practice could help them maximize their income and fend off opposition from critics concerned that solar development will take prime farmland out of production. The goal is to harvest the forage crops as efficiently as possible.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Forage Acre 98

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.” But Klemm says he sees a decent harvest even in dry years. Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. People get stuck on [need for] combine [harvesting], threshing, cleaning. Reeske’s hunch was correct.

Grain 138

Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For many seasons, most of the kale, chard, tomatoes, beets, napa cabbage, carrots, and collard greens harvested by Growing Home , a 1.5-acre To support both the farm’s bottom line and its mission, the project includes building a bigger space for preparing its harvest for distribution and delivery.

Food 125

Food Farming Farming Distribution 125

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Come autumn harvest after a short growing season of about 58 days, Sakari donates most of the yield to regional tribes with distribution assistance from state agencies. They can learn how to grow and harvest traditional foods, make their own recipes in the incubator kitchen, and market and sell their products.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145