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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 75

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. Across farmland in the lower parts of the province, producers dealt with the deaths of thousands of animals, including more than 630,000 chickens , while 2,500 acres of blueberries wilted.

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Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 83

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Adeeb: There was a loss of farmland, farm traditions, knowledge, and skills being passed from one generation to the other due to migration. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock.

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 111