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. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. What is agritourism?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 18, 2024

In May, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Carolina Mueller, Young Farmers’ Coalition Associate Director , joined Lian Zeitz of the Climate Mental Health Network and Caitlin Arnold Stephano of Farm Aid for an American Farmland Trust -hosted conversation on farmer mental health in a changing climate.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

I think, especially for new and beginning farmers, it’s hard to start farming – especially if you don’t have that generational access to farmland,” said Lisa Buckner, education coordinator for the NFU. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Certainly, we are not solving that problem.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Then, two years later, it added still more land in this rural Nebraska county tucked between Chimney Rock and Lake McConaughy. You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., Farmland Reserve Inc. confirmed that it is currently ranching on about 365,000 acres in the Sandhills. AgReserves Inc.,

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Our land at the ranch makes things interesting because we have lots of aspen and conifer forest, and high topography. That’s called drought-proofing.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, they often face barriers to accessing federal conservation programs, because their farms and ranches tend to be small. Young farmers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and need support to continue implementing solutions on their farms.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 25, 2024

Participating in appropriations means advocating for funding specific programs or initiatives related to agriculture, rural development, and food policy. The Farm Bill is a piece of legislation that is reauthorized every five to six years, impacting various issues related to agriculture, nutrition, and rural development.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2024

In times of economic contraction, AgAmerica understands that access to the right financial resources is crucial for maintaining and growing your farm or ranch into a booming agricultural operation. Just be sure you fully understand requirements to avoid unwanted restrictions on how you can use your farmland. Click the link below.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. It affects the type of habitats that the animals can use.” Mammals and humans want to occupy the same landscape,” said Rath.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Written by Niko Simos May 2, 2023 Agritourism offers a unique and authentic experience for travelers who want to explore rural areas, learn about agriculture and sustainable farming practices, and immerse themselves in local culture and traditions. Credit: Bowral Beekeeping. Corn mazes: A corn maze is a labyrinth created from a field of corn.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

Whitney is an owner and operator of JW Farms and Ranch, a family-owned agricultural producer with lot stock operations in southern Oklahoma and farmland in eastern Colorado. She also serves as chair of the board of the board for Farm Credit in Southern Colorado. ’ I’d sum it up with one word: that’s questionable.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

For Topper, the issue is about the way the installation has disrupted the peace of her rural life. Stottler, who grew up in rural Minnesota, understands how the view of a solar farm is not what residents desire. He sees agrovoltaics — the marriage of solar and agriculture — to be the best path forward.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

– Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. Farm Balance Sheet An agricultural balance sheet is a financial statement that provides a snapshot of the financial condition of a farm or ranch at a specific point in time. Who Can Apply?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 16, 2024

This disparity disadvantages farmers of color in both the national and global economy and stifles the growth and prosperity of rural communities. Farmers of color more commonly face unique and difficult challenges to starting and managing a successful farming operation, limiting the opportunity to have viable and resilient careers in farming.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The project will serve low-income, rural communities in over 30 California counties, primarily in the state’s Central Coast and Central Valley region. This disparity disadvantages farmers of color in both the national and global economy and stifles the growth and prosperity of rural communities.

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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. Using cameras that had been set up at these ranch water sources across west Texas for another study, Boal and his team began their work, which was later published in BioOne.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Flooding, excessive heat, and drought wreaked havoc on farms and ranches around the country, from California to Texas to Massachusetts. This investment is badly needed, as extreme weather fueled by climate change demonstrated during summer 2023. Of course, the problem is much bigger than this past summer.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” million grant in 2022 to Ujamaa for the purchase of a medium-sized plot of land in Yolo County.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These much-needed payments are helping farming and ranching operations recover following natural disasters in 2020, 2021 and 2022. In its continued efforts to support agriculture and farming communities, Farmland is proud to be an official partner of country superstar Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour for the third consecutive year.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 24, 2024

million agricultural workers working on US farms and ranches encounter a variety of hazards, from pesticide exposure to extreme heat. Slaughter and processing workers in this type of system—disproportionately rural, immigrants, refugees, and people of color—are vulnerable to dangerous and precarious work conditions.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

RWR sought the funds to kickstart a plan to drill deep wells on a ranch it owns in the San Luis Valley farther south, home to the nation’s second-largest potato crop. Rural and urban residents would then split water stored during wet periods in the northern part of the state for use in prolonged dry spells. billion in output in 2019.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains.

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