Western FarmPress

AUGUST 13, 2023

Land Values: The statewide stability, with promise of big crop yields, helps offset the high input costs.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Restoration after mining can yield productive farmland.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Different economic drivers are influencing the value of farmland across the U.S. While location and yield will always be important, changes to both crop and animal genetics, climate shifts and other new technologies are bringing to light subtle changes that have been growing for decades. But with great change comes great volatility.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 30, 2025

Fractal benchmarks a fields value using yield data, aerial imagery and other agronomic characteristics.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. Figure 1: ARC and PLC Leave Out 69 Percent of US Farm Acres (2023 Enrollment) Just eight states have a majority of farmland acres eligible to enroll in ARC and PLC. In 2023, there were 239.7 ARC and PLC Favor Corn, Soy, and Wheat Of the 239.7

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Agwired

OCTOBER 31, 2024

farmers are using a new solution to treat soil compaction – a problem that affects over 68 million acres of farmland and significantly reduces crop yields. Three years of independent field trials have confirmed significant yield boosts of up to 34 percent in a multitude of crops, with an 86 percent win rate. soybean acreage.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The underlying data are derived from the Purdue University budget estimates and assume a 50:50 crop rotation on high-quality Indiana farmland. High-Quality Indiana Farmland. Expectations about revenue – commodity prices and yields – are also important. Cash Rent as a Percent of Expected Revenue. 50:50 Corn/ Soybean Rotation.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Because, first of all, it excludes recommendations for so-called grade one and two farmland, presumably based on the assumption it will be business as usual on the best farmland, in other words continuous arable cropping to increase the amount of food from those areas where we have the best soils.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Even though organic farming makes up less than one percent of US farmland , it’s still a multi-billion-dollar industry. For a food to become certified organic, the farmland must be proven to have not received any pesticides or unapproved substances for at least three years. Adopting approved organic practices is only part of it.

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Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. Increased Yields Soil testing combined with crop and fertilization management can increase yields significantly. Get the most out of your farmland.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops. Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains.

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes. The boost in plant nutrition increased forage yields enough to create a surplus.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

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

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JANUARY 7, 2024

How do farmland values find equilibrium? Speaking of moderation, farmland values were higher in 2023 but not anywhere near the 2022 gains. For example, top-quality Indiana farmland values were up 7.3% Historically, there has been a strong relationship between the cash rent to farmland value ratio and the 10-year treasuries.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

AUGUST 29, 2023

And farmers can’t always afford drilling and maintaining wells on farmland. While irrigation boosts yields, ensures food security, and enables crop diversification, it is not a one-size-fits-all solution for every farmer. These challenges make irrigation an unattainable option for many farmers.

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Crop Acre Farmland Yield 98

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. Most modern wheat is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety that does not produce roots as deep as many heritage types. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.” in March 2022.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JANUARY 28, 2024

treasury yields (in blue), 5-year U.S. treasury yields (in red), and 1-year treasury yields (in green). Variations of these data are frequently presented during discussions about the inverted yield curve and its potential indication of a looming recession. The Yield on 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year U.S. Treasuries.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Importing expensive chemical fertilizer, insisting on farming practices unsuited for local conditions, and prioritizing crop yield to maximize profit are some of the blanket agricultural prescriptions that have created unintended and lasting challenges. Among their efforts is the formation of the seedball caravan.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

At an industry-average field-farming yield rate of 22,175 pounds per acre (for the more boutique varieties that are grown in CEA settings), that's a lot of lettuce! 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.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

For Paddock, maximizing “ crop per drop ”—getting the most yield with the least amount of water—is important. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Some studies show California’s farmland acreage will be reduced by about 20 percent by 2040. Some of that loss comes from rising temperatures.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

farmland as a way to diversify and increase revenue streams. Precision agriculture tools, such as GPS-guided equipment and drones, enable farmers to optimize field management, reduce waste, and increase yields. Land Use The rapid expansion of renewable energy projects raises concerns about the conversion of farmland.

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Technology Agriculture Agriculture Finance 59

Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

Those policy actions, combined with depleted consumer savings, tighter commercial bank lending standards and the persistently inverted yield curve are likely to result in a mild recession by the fourth quarter of 2023.

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Real Estate Farmland Lodging Seeding 40

Agricultural Economics Insights

MARCH 2, 2024

. #1) Long Term Rates Figure 1 shows the market yields on 10-year and 1-year U.S. Long–term rates – which farmland loans and values are heavily impacted by – might be sticky or even drift higher as the Fed adjusts short terms. Market Yield on U.S. treasuries. Still curious? Read more here.) Data Source: St.

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Yield Farmland Marketing Production 57

ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 tonnes per year, not zero.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Benjamin Ruddell , director of the National Water-Economy Project , said that Colorado River water shortages left large areas of farmland in Arizona unsowed, a bellwether of things to come. “Up Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. said Nabhan of the conversation. “I

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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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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. Thirty-eight percent of farms reported using no-till practices in 2022, which is 1.1% more than five years ago.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

He hopes that a new “crop” growing in tandem with berries could help boost the local industry and preserve farmland. With dual-use agrivoltaics, crops are grown under or between the rows of solar panels, with the aim of generating renewable energy without removing farmland from production.

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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. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. Imagination leads to affection, and affection yields fidelity. The second is the issue of agricultural consolidation.

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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. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns. Polyester was once thought to be a wonder fiber.

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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. And as European farmers have shown, protest can yield results. Matters are much the same in the US. In 1987, that figure was 15 percent. Do such proposals challenge free trade?

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. The rich soil of the Arkansas Delta takes its minerals from the Mississippi River that winds in circuitous patterns between the state and its neighboring namesake.

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Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 98

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Come autumn harvest after a short growing season of about 58 days, Sakari donates most of the yield to regional tribes with distribution assistance from state agencies. And we’re protecting these traditional Native plants that we grow for communities like the Hopi Nation and the Oneida Nation in the seed bank.”

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