Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company focused on digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced an integration into MyCHS, the farmer-facing platform from CHS, Inc., Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer.

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American Farmland

DECEMBER 15, 2023

American Farmland Trust was pleased to sponsor this year’s Sustainable Agriculture Summit held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 2023 theme—“Scaling Collective Impact” —was apparent from the over 800 food and agricultural supply chain leaders and experts present for the lively sessions and engaging conversations.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recognizing the value of farmland and the fact that, as a popular phrase goes, “they’re not making any more land,” investors are buying up agricultural acreage. Farmland conversion to subdivisions, strip malls and low-density housing is acutely affecting Tennessee, but it’s prevalent across the country. million acres. Press, 2023).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. The company would eventually like to source more of its hemp fiber domestically, from minority farmers in particular, with the hope of increasing the diversity of the farmers in its supply chain.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 9, 2024

And during the environmental and societal reckoning of the pandemic—not to mention the collapse of the industrial food supply chain—the work of these regenerative farmers became more meaningful than ever before. These two questions launched me on the journey to write this book. But it was only later that I learned of their urgency.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

(Photo credit: Paige Hodder) Farm stops operate quite differently from typical mainstream grocery stores like Kroger or Albertson’s, which rely on industrialized food systems and complex supply chains. They are also distinct from a farmers’ market, which requires farmers to either be there for sales or hire someone to sell for them.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

Secure access to affordable, quality farmland is the top challenge facing the passionate young people across the country who are stewarding land and feeding their communities. Young farmers desperately need access to quality, affordable farmland.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Such risks include pests, diseases, fluctuating market prices, and supply chain disruptions and more. These technologies provide high-resolution images of farmland, allowing farmers to detect stress factors such as nutrient deficiencies, waterlogging, pest infestations, or disease outbreaks before they become widespread.

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DTN

JANUARY 25, 2024

Calculating carbon emissions from agricultural practices is a topic that has been garnering a lot of attention recently, especially as end-users of ag products start examining the sustainability of their entire supply chain. Consumers would also see supply chain transparency.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The hearing covered various topics, including the lack of data on farmland tenure, foreign ownership of farmland, and rising land values driven by non-farming buyers. The Issue of corporate ownership of farmland and farm consolidation is very, very important. The Farmland for Farmers Act (S. With approximately 40% of U.S.

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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. Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In both cases, its the initial conversion of undisturbed land to farmland that has the biggest impact. If its coming to the Delta, its going to be existing farmland switching from one crop to another, not new land being converted.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

His research focuses on economic decision-making throughout the food supply chain from agricultural production to consumer demand. Although all the speakers agreed it was likely that farmland is of higher value due to the higher value of corn, there was no known research on the implications of that.

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

American Farmland Trust (AFT) released a white paper summarizing the climate benefits associated with agricultural conservation easements. Agtools is succeeding at converting raw data into reliable, curated and audited data to make it simple for every food supply chain stakeholder.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. This, as supply chain disruptions from that conflict drove up the prices that European farmers pay for inputs such as gas and fertilizer.

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Tillable

OCTOBER 14, 2024

While cotton was the hardest hit overall, crops like peanuts and oranges also experienced significant losses, impacting farmers’ livelihoods and agricultural supply chains.

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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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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. The film examines how neoliberal economics have disrupted food supply chains and forced small farmers out of business.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. And yet, heat is also already the deadliest extreme weather event in the U.S.,

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Despite this, regional food supply chains have long been under-funded and under-resourced. farmland owners identify as white. Farmers worked overtime to make up for and build this infrastructure on their own. This deeply inequitable history has resulted in our current landscape where 98% of U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation. Title 4 – Nutrition Takes a different approach to sustaining catalytic local and regional food supply chain investments than the Senate proposal. 2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Global Growers Network (GGN) Working with a network of 175 families, many of whom are resettled refugees, GGN connects food producers to sustainable agriculture resources and quality farmland. They support 10 farm, community garden and orchard sites in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, helping communities grow fresh, culturally familiar crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

But dog owners distrust this mysterious supply chain. The Conscious Pet No discussion of vanishing farmland or concerns about wasting human grade food on pets is complete without a mention of food waste—when 30 percent to 40 percent of the entire US food supply gets dumped in landfills.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When farmers have secure, equitable access to land, they contribute to national food security, strengthen local supply chains, grow rural economies, and build climate resilience. An investment in access to farmland in the next farm bill will generate immense returns for taxpayers. “The

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For farmers and agribusinesses, the idea of sustaining farmland for future use is not new. Greening the food supply chain requires efficient methods to connect grain buyers with sustainable grain growers, and buyers will want to be assured that the grain they’re buying really was grown sustainably. from 2022 to 2030.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. agriculture industry—currently running at about 150 million barrels of oil equivalent a year—will disappear as all parts of the supply chain related to growing and transporting cattle are disrupted. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

Together, they’re safeguarding affordable access to the farmland by providing a long-term lease to Mountain Bounty so that it continues to produce local, organic food in an ecologically responsible way for generations to come. Self reliance runs deep in this part of California.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. How can we create shorter supply chains, both to and from the farm? We literally are managing fields this year for weed reduction in 2024. How can we build systems that provide more on-farm soil fertility and weed control?

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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. million starting in 2024.

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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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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Does any of that sound familiar?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2023

The local and regional food systems that support this network of local producers, retailers, and consumers are receiving growing recognition and support for their unique value add every time we experience a global supply chain disruption (such as the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

Lastly, the Local and Regional Food Systems campaign seeks to strengthen local food systems by investing in local infrastructure and food supply chains while purchasing food from small, local farms and from farmers from socially disadvantaged populations that can go to schools and food pantries.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Local Food: Markets, Supply Chains and Access The farm bill plays an important role in supporting the health and prosperity of our rural and urban communities. It also offers a new flexible financial product for food supply chains by expanding the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loans to offer complimentary grants.

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