Dustin Henningsen: There's hundreds of acres here of farmland and woods, and we have the Mississippi River not far away, so knowing that he could have went any direction really makes the search difficult … Fanning out from the kennels, heavily armed officers searched nearby neighborhoods — ho...
Each pod contains five acres of farmland. Let that sink in; five acres of fresh food is grown within the footprint of a 40-foot metal box. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. Sign Me...
These REITs typically purchase farmland and then lease it to farmers. Farmland REITs offer many benefits. For one thing, they provide more diversification than investing in a single farm, as they give investors an interest in a number of farms across a wide geographic area. Farmland REITs offer...
The September 1 deadline for notice of changes to farmland leases in some states is looming. For farmers, that means there is a good deal of number crunching going on, and in many cases the math isn’t pretty. Cash grain prices sitting well below 2019 levels are forcing farmers to rethin...
A deer has to eat 6-8% of its bodyweight in plant material each day. That means an adult deer can eat over a dozen pounds of plant foliage per day. (Think about how many leaves from your fruit trees and vegetable garden plants it takes to add up to 12 pounds!) ...
(fertilizer) costs and higher water use efficiency, especially for irrigated farmland. Altogether, no-till farmers gain at least $142 per acre in economic benefits. This value represents $16 billion dollars of value to the 110 million acres in the U.S. that are using no-till farming ...
• Growing market: In 1990, the United States had less than 1 million acres of organic farmland. By 2002, that number had doubled, and it doubled again in 2005, the most recent year for which USDA data is available. As organic farming has spread, it has adopted some of the principle...
Abel:Absolutely, well, we’re doing a little podcast swap, and it’s a lot of fun to talk to people who are in different parts of the world. And one cool part of the ancestral health community is how many Australians are into it and have been into it for awhile. ...