Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s late October and Jon Griggs, manager of Maggie Creek Ranch in Elko, Nevada, still has more than a thousand Angus-cross calves left to wean. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. At his ranch, they perform short-term monitoring of data points such as species diversity and the amount of bare soil.

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DTN

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ag retailers that offer products and services that support regenerative agriculture, such as low-carbon fertilizer, cover cropping solutions and eco-friendly pest solutions may be able to get ahead of competitors in a new marketplace. Because the amount of data associated with farming and ranching is only growing is scope and scale.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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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. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2023

One 2020 study found that increasing pollination produces higher-yield crops with more concentrated sugar than other methods, like increasing water or fertilizer use. The pesticides that have the greatest effect on native pollinators are those that are highly toxic or that contaminate pollen, nectar, or soil.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The entire production chain of the feedstuffs going into modern confinement dairies and feedlots involves the burning of fossil fuels to produce the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides necessary for large-scale, mono-crop, industrial production of corn and soy.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides.

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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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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The members of trade association CropLife International have issued an Industry Declaration renewing and reaffirming their commitment to the principles and standards of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management. Campbell Tractor Co. , potato, leading to healthier and higher-quality products, including potato chips.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more. A field of Hopi corn, nonirrigated, grown with no herbicides, pesticides, or soil amenities such as nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Soil is alive.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. You should also determine if there are any restrictions on how you can use the land (for example: no pesticides). They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

Farmers have reduced the amount of labor and land used to farm and increased inputs such as machinery, farm structures, fertilizer, and pesticides, according to the U.S. Miller found a path to profitability by joining Niman Ranch, a network of more than 750 small, independent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. The problem is that its notoriously hard to define.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Crop prices plummeted and interest rates on operating loans which farmers take in the spring to pay for inputs like seed and fertilizer, then pay back after harvest were over 20 percent. It was the height of the farm crisis of the 1980s, when agriculture collapsed nationwide.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This new generation of farmers deserve USDA programs that better address the real needs for their farms and ranches. The environmental impact of precision agriculture is not yet understood, but it can potentially increase energy use and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. 7201) Strengthens Farmer Mental Health.

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