Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

So, when new diseases strike, new pests emerge, and climate stresses increase on North American farms, scientists tend to look to places that are far from American farmland to find genetic resources in centers of origin that were never domesticated. We’re trying to encourage the flow of knowledge between the two systems.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Putting a value on this carbon (and other greenhouse gases) is not a simple matter and various pricing mechanisms exist. A carbon offset tends to refer to credits being traded on a voluntary market where companies – and individuals – can buy into carbon offsetting schemes to compensate for their emissions.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In a nutshell, Borlaug’s Green Revolution was America’s investment in industrial models for food production after WW2: hybrid seeds, genetic modification, mono-culture, selective breeding, mechanization, and chemicals. After finishing his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota in 1942, Borlaug began a career with DuPont.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

These occurrences in urban areas are scary, but heat stress can affect birds in more rural spaces, too, and farmland is no exception. If we figure out what the mechanisms are, that leads us directly to concrete conservation interventions,” says Lauck. Trees adjacent to farmland can provide critical canopy to wild birds.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits , worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland. “I Mechanization is the primary reason why hedgerows have disappeared in North America,” says Jones.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

A couple of weeks ago the media was abuzz about Bill Gates being the new largest farmland owner in the U.S. Unlike Turner, Gates is buying cropland (farmland) not ranch land. A mechanical, manipulative, Machiavellian approach to the living world. Today we have another rising star, but it's a far different situation.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S. The approach to addressing speculative ownership of farmland misses the mark.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. Throughout history, agriculture required a highly integrated approach because until cheap energy and mechanization, distribution was laborious. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. MECHANICAL VERSUS BIOLOGICAL.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Heres another example: Farmers in Nicodemus dont disturb their land with mechanized tilling because we know it erodes our soil. Her husband is a sixth-generation descendant of Nicodemus original settlers.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As a farmer, you might be a laborer, mechanic, artist, plumber, electrician, landscaper, entrepreneur, grower, inventor, salesperson, website designer, and honestly whatever else needs to be done. Find Farmland, Equipment and Materials This is the elephant in the room for many people. You might have to wear many different hats.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

You’re unlikely to come up with the domain of Big Sugar: the Everglades Agricultural Area, that 700,000-acre swath of farmland just south of Lake Okeechobee. Mechanical harvesters cut sugar cane in the U.S. But he was not convinced that Everglades restoration depended on farmland. Two companies—U.S. Sugar Corp.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In Nebraska, the Ponca people have been growing their sacred corn on farmland signed back to them in 2018. To safeguard present and future progress, Warren implores policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels to take action in creating institutionalized mechanisms for tribal nations to acquire publicly managed and owned land.

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