Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. All the pesticides and fungicides or whatever type of management that big farmlands like to use can have a direct and indirect effect on the mammals in the area,” Singh-Varma said. “It

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It allowed me to triple the size of my operation and have healthier animals—they’re up on pasture [on the new land],” she said. We’re thinking more sustainably and regeneratively, thinking outside the monoculture box—about pasture, carbon sequestering, and perennial farming.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 7, 2024

American Farmland Trust is accepting applications for the Brighter Future Fund’s New England Regenerative Livestock Farming Grants. Projects can include fencing, cover crop seeds, reduced tillage equipment, irrigation, pasture establishment, pollinator habitat, and other conservation practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Next spring there will be swallows winging their way back across continents to feast on insects that live with cattle that graze on pasture that has never been ploughed.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. The NRCS will invest $1.4

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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. Many years ago I had a vexing fox in our pastured chickens that I couldn't catch or shoot. Goodness knows, I tried.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. farmland is regularly cover cropped. The EPA’s latest National Rivers and Streams Assessment found close to half of the country’s waterways were in “poor condition,” and nutrients such as nitrogen are a leading culprit.

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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.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. I have never seen so much damage.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods. Customers couldn’t get enough of the local grass-farmed treats.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Funding more and better conservation practices also helps grow farmers and protect farmland. The IRA conservation dollars fund programs that offer direct financial support to new and existing practices on farms and they are much more inclusive than commodity programs.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. Organic farms have been shown to have lower net greenhouse gas emissions than conventional farms, and California’s climate scoping plan includes a target of 20 percent of the state’s farmland under organic cultivation by 2045.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Just as a farmer might grow alfalfa as a cover crop on a fallow field, communities can install solar on a school’s rooftop, a parking lot, a brownfield site too expensive to remediate or on agrivoltaic -compatible land such as cranberry bogs or sheep pastures.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

My parents divorced when I was six years old, and I spent a lot of that time at my cousins’ farm where we ran wild through pasture and forest, daring each other to touch hotwire and finding portals in the branches of yew trees. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

chemically based) farmland in the Green Alliance modelling got some strong push-back from the audience. What made the session particularly lively was that it was somewhat contentious – something that doesn’t often happen at the ORFC where people are mostly in agreement about what’s being said.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. How often have you heard that said?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows. 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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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I But Tim observed that the rested paddock yielded twice what the neighbouring pastures did, even though they’d been managed the same for 15 years. “It I was really in tune with the movement of the seasons and the farm cycle—and I enjoyed that.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While his research indicates significant land use changes in the Dakotas - shifting to more row crop production and fewer pastures and CRP, there was only a slight increase in row crop acres in Wisconsin according to their research. Lark agreed with Cooper that ethanol policy has increased demand for corn which has increased crop prices.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Vast tule marshes surrounded its banks, creating a rich ecosystem teeming with fish and birds that, in turn, supported the Tachi Yokut and other Native American communities. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elk are particularly challenging for the dairies: Not only do they threaten their economic viability—including by damaging fences, competing for forage, and eating hay—but also their organic certifications, which require cows on pasture at least 120 days per year.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The deployment of the Waltons’ vast fortune across millions of farmland acres, ocean ecosystems, and food production spaces could boost the regenerative image that Walmart presents as a company while obscuring the fact that the majority of the food on its shelves is still produced as cheaply as possible.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. acres in a former horse pasture. Agricultural land values for avocados in San Diego and Riverside counties ranged from $13,300 to $35,000 per acre in 2020, while the average is $4,610 in Kansas. That makes lower-profit wheat a pretty hard sell.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The farmland market is an important indicator of an operation’s financial strength. For farmers who own their land, farmland makes up more than 80 percent of their total assets. In this article, we explore historical farmland market trends, including farmland ownership demographics, average farm sizes, and regional differences.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

This is rare in Minnesota and other the parts of the corn belt, where the water on millions of acres drain directly to waterways due to the ceramic pipes, or drainage tiles , that were installed below farmland over the last century.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., Farmland Reserve Inc. The church likely originally purchased land in Nebraska through its nonprofit, Farmland Reserve Inc., By that point, the church had already purchased more than 200,000 acres of Nebraska ag land under Farmland Reserve Inc.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. It’s a message that remains entrenched in America’s farmland today and fuels incredible revenues for seed/chemical companies. Cargill’s revenue is around $165 billion in 2022 ; Syngenta reports 25.9

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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.”

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Until its discovery in 2004 by an eagleeyed employee of Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources cycling past one of the farm’s pastures, Maynard Mall onee had no idea the lupine on the family property was endangered. But, it’s not always easy for growers to identify those species at risk on their properties.

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