Touch the Soil News #2038 (photo – Urban Farm) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domian) Journalist Wayne Pratt on the KBIA news portal brings an interesting story from Missouri. The state is offering tax credits to encourage more urban farms throughout the state. The tax credit aren’t targeted specifically to food-insecure areas, but anyone that wants…
Touch the Soil News #2037 (Grain Terminal & Train Moving Grain for Export) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an interesting story about farm exports. The focus of the story is on how high interest rates artificially increase the value of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies. As such, nations…
Touch the Soil News #2036 (photo – Soybean Plants) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain) AgWeb News Portal brings the story of a company called Taranis, which says it is in the business of scouting fields for real-time data on crops. The idea is to enable farmers and agronomists with the best data for decision making. …
Touch the Soil News #2035 (photo – Hackney City Farm) (Courtesy of Dr. Neil Clifton, CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Coming up with an urban farm idea in the midst of the greater London area has to have some attraction. In addition, operating as a non-profit while everyone gets a paycheck which makes contributions to Social…
Touch the Soil News #2034 (photo – Healthy Farmland Soils) (Courtesy of USDA Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an insightful story about farmland values that even bankers are wincing over. When the price of farmland reaches a certain threshold, the revenue from crops can no longer pay the cost plus its financing costs. …
Community Garden – As Much for Inspiration as Food Production Touch the Soil News #2033 (photo – Community Garden) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain CCA 2.0 Generic) The Times of San Diego comes with an interesting story of a community garden being built in a city park. There was almost $500,000 raised for the park. …
Touch the Soil News #2032 (photo – Food Bank) (Courtesy of Harrison Keely Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) Food Bank News comes with an interesting story about Matt Habash, who was selected as Food Bank CEO of the year. Habash relies on data to understand his hungry constituents to make decisions about how a Food Bank…
Touch the Soil News #2031 (photo – South Chicago farm) (Courtesy of Urban Growers Collective, https://www.urbangrowerscollective.org/our-farms) The Daily Journal, an Illinois news Portal bring us the story of urban farm tours in Chicago. These tours have become so popular that even rural farmer come to get ideas and network. While it is not a new…
Touch the Soil News #2030 (photo – Lettuce Greens) ( CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Oregon State University) At almost 8 acres of indoor space, this vertical farm is capable of producing almost 6,000 lbs. of fresh leafy greens a day. Now that is a lot of salad, when calculating about 5 servings of salad for…
Touch the Soil News #2029 (photo – Food Market) ( Public Domain, USDA) Most farmers believe their occupations are forever ensured. And that is true. Even farmland has attracted the world of investors who want to ride the crest of the demand for food by owning farmland. NPR News recently reported that 44.2 million people…
