Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

I grow small-scale herbs, seeds and nursery starts in my backyard garden and work in the nonprofit agriculture world. Hearing her experience of feeding more than 150 families in her Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription yet still unable to afford to purchase farmland as an Indigenous woman in the Portland Metro area is alarming.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. We also chatted about the farmland converted into solar panels—the area around Red Hen Turf Farm has a lot of them. Gordon said it’s great for marginal farmland (or, land that doesn’t produce well). It was my first time on a turf farm!

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is on top of record-high farm debt, higher borrowing costs, higher break-even levels and likely downward pressure on farmland asset values due to higher interest rates. It is reasonable to expect that farm income may be even lower in 2024.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Its seeding future conflict. The demands of growing cities are increasingly impinging on farmland. Its inequity. Its destabilising the world, says lead reporter Nathan Halverson. The situation as portrayed in The Grab urges us to be wary of what lies ahead.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. The seedballs contain a dense powerhouse of nutrients and protective elements that give the enclosed seeds a greater chance to flourish in a challenging climate. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny. No-till drills and roller crimpers make cover cropping easier. And the world of precision farming methods, like GPS and sensors, save water, use fewer chemicals, and enhance crop yields with less environmental harm. Another barrier is knowledge.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Photo credit: Oisakhose Aghomo Forging Pathways to Land Access for BIPOC Farmers in Georgia Emerging tools are helping young and beginning BIPOC farmers find farmland and navigate the confusing legal process needed to acquire and manage it. Here is our best food justice reporting this year.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies (ASA, CSSA, SSSA) AgTexas Farm Credit Alabama Ag Credit Alabama Farm Credit Altamaha Riverkeeper Amcot American Beekeeping Federation American Biogas Council American Bird Conservancy American Chestnut Land Trust American Farm Bureau Federation American Farmland Trust American Pulse Association American Rivers (..)

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sincerely, Agricultural Retailers Association American Agri-Women American Association of Crop Insurers American Bankers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Farmland Trust American Malting Barley Association American Property and Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) American Seed Trade Association American Sesame Growers Association (..)

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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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The Farmers Daughter USA

AUGUST 29, 2023

It might seem a little crazy that farmers would plant seeds and then just hope for the best. And farmers can’t always afford drilling and maintaining wells on farmland. According to the USDA, only 12 million acres of corn are irrigated, which isn’t a lot when you realize that U.S.

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Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

Join the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) this December 5 – 8, 2023 at a NEW venue, the Hyatt Regency Orlando, for the Field Crop Seed Convention , an unparalleled seed business networking and educational opportunity.

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Agwired

JANUARY 3, 2024

The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) brought its well-known and widely attended Field Crop Seed Convention to Orlando for the first time in December. EarthOptics , a next-generation soil mapping and measurement company, announced it has mapped and physically measured one million acres of farmland and ranchland.

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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. Solar power may be the answer to the world’s future energy needs. The basic business model is based on reality.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

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.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” are systemic insecticides that are now used to coat corn, soy, and other seeds planted on hundreds of millions of acres across the country. In 2013, ABC published an initial report that found a single neonic-coated seed could be enough to kill a songbird.

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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. Moser plans to work with other crops, too. Soybeans are one example.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1. The zoning code is often based on the size of the parcel.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

There’s also the “Fuzz and Buzz” – a solar seed blend used at the Brookfield site that benefits pollinators and sheep. There’s good seed-to-solar contact, and the imprints from the sheep hooves allow the seeds to be captured in the soil. Erosion is a big concern at the base of the panels.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Whatever happens, like the wildflower seeds that stick to my trousers, the land grabs hold of me, and it wont let go. Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. And when I was in high school, around 2009, I started a community garden on our farm called “Project: Plant a Seed.” The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Photo: Jasmine Pankratz) While Central Maui has a few pockets of diversified farms, seed production and pastures, most fields have simply been abandoned—only to be taken over by hardy, invasive grasses. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

version of its 40-million-acre Poncho®/VOTiVO® seed treatment that includes a GE bacteria aimed at improving plant health. seed treatment—it combines a GE biological with a toxic neonicotinoid insecticide associated with the decimation of pollinators and growing concerns for human health. And BASF sells a 2.0 Take BASF’s 2.0

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

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Agwired

JULY 28, 2023

For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. Through its innovative initiatives and partnerships, AFT has advocated for farmers, regenerative agricultural practices and policies, and fostered resilient agricultural communities.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act The Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act is an important climate adaptation tool for agriculture. It would create a $75 million carveout in USDA research grants for the development of new public seeds and animal breeds that are regionally-adapted and publicly available.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ag Equity Line of Credit (AELOC) This line of credit is secured by the equity in the farmland rather than your inventory. Operating Loans These loans can cover daily expenses like seeds, fertilizer, livestock feed, and family living expenses. seeds, labor) or a long-term loan for investments (e.g., equipment, land).

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Bartz’s farm, Bolan-Vale was the first farm in the northern half of the state to try seeding with a drone back in 2021. “I’m If you own farmland, be intentional with your management and work with any renters to ensure that practices consider the long-term impact to the farm. I’m always trying something new every year.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA.

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Fork Farms

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Bloomer is located in the northwest part of Wisconsin where there is ample farmland and a strong farming community. They provide hands-on experience for students to develop leadership skills while working in teams to care for the leafy greens from seed to a successful harvest. This innovative hands-on program is led by Ms.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

of the American Farmland Trust. This study includes an analysis of nearly 200,000 acres of California lettuce farmland that is analyzed using two separate analytical tools. A resource that I have found extremely useful that dives into this topic in detail is a piece written by Steve Shaffer and Edward Thompson Jr.

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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. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil. Absolutely.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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