Acres U.S.A.

12/20/2024

🚜🌱 It’s Farm Friday, gang!

Introducing Levy Farms, located in Blairsville, GA.

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12/20/2024

Good Bookkeeping
By Kirsten Simmons

Four ways good bookkeeping makes farm life easier (especially when someone else keeps them)

Back in the first few months I was working full time with Good Agriculture, we were preparing some content for a webinar on bookkeeping, and my cofounder asked me if we could use my farm’s books as an example. I said of course, and I shared the Google Drive folder with all the spreadsheets I’d been keeping over the years.

About 20 minutes later, Alex came back with, “So, this is a great series of one-off analyses, but it doesn’t appear that you’ve actually done your books. At all. In seven years.”

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Four ways good bookkeeping makes farm life easier (especially when someone else keeps them)

12/18/2024

The Soil Electric
By Nigel Palmer

Plants control voltage (Eh) and acidity (pH) to thwart pathogens and insect pressure

Electricity is ubiquitous, but it is often not discussed when evaluating living systems. Plants produce energy in the form of sugars during photosynthesis by splitting water into electrons (negative charges) and protons (positive charges related to acidity) while releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. These sugars are distributed throughout the plant and into the soil through the phloem sap pathway.

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Plants control voltage (Eh) and acidity (pH) to thwart pathogens and insect pressure

12/17/2024

📚Book of the Week Sale!📚

Agriculture in Transition
By Donald L. Schriefer

Ideas such as “crop and soil weatherproofing,” the “row support system,” and the “tillage commandments,” exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Donald Schriefer’s highly successful “systems approach” farming.

Schriefer was a pioneer in developing an awareness of the relation of tillage to soil fertility, focusing on three major soil basics — soil aeration, soil water, and soil decay.

This book covers such topics as soil chemistry, plant and soil dynamics, above- and below-ground plant management, row support fertilization, zone-tillage, disc-chiseling, and more. Schriefer focuses on reducing "yield-limiting factors" such as seed selection, excessive tillage and a dependence on technology.

Use code: Transition30 in our online bookstore to get 30% this title!

12/16/2024

Water Quality Is Not a Difficult Problem
By Brian Dougherty

If we would just address its underlying issues — by applying the principles of soil health — water quality degradation would not be a problem

Poor water quality from nonpoint agricultural pollution is considered a “wicked” problem. Conflicting social, political, economic and environmental factors prevent easy solutions. However, the reason we have been unable to tackle water quality problems is because government programs and industry initiatives focus on treating the symptoms (e.g. sediment loading, nutrient loss) rather than addressing the underlying cause of the problem.

The root cause of degraded water is dysfunctional soil. Soil that is dysfunctional cannot infiltrate water or cycle nutrients effectively. Most agricultural soils have poor biological activity, resulting in broken carbon and water cycles. This is primarily due to lack of diverse living ground cover and surface armor, excessive physical and chemical disturbance, and nutrient management practices that do not account for the fact that soil is a biological system.

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If we would just address its underlying issues — by applying the principles of soil health — water quality degradation would not be a problem

12/13/2024

🚜 It’s farm friday, gang!

Introducing .farm
This farm/ranch is a first generation operation specializing in soil health, direct market meat production along with community education! Their story about how they went from traditionally managed operations to holistically managed practices is one to tune into! Check out their website!
https://atdrycreek.com/

12/13/2024

Tips for Pick-Your-Own
By Megan Neubauer

Five essential components of a pick-your-own farm

Pick-your-own farming is a production model in which consumers go directly to farms to pick and purchase fruits and vegetables. This very profitable agritourism model has enabled us at Pure Land Farm to produce much more volume than we would be able to move through traditional market gardening avenues of sale, like the farmers market or local restaurants, without significant investments in labor and equipment. The time we save by eliminating the harvest, prep and marketing labor is repurposed to scale up the number of plants we grow, resulting in a fatter top line at no additional expense.

This model is not new; agritourism pioneer Dr. Booker T. Whatley preached about the value of pick-your-own more than 40 years ago. While we too are evangelists for the model, it’s understandably not going to be the best fit for every farm. There are five components of our operation that we’ve identified as key contributors to our success.

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Five essential components of a pick-your-own farm

12/12/2024

Glyphosate Does What It’s Designed to Do — Kill
By Acres U.S.A.

Dr. Don Huber talks about his career as a researcher, professor and Army officer, as well as about the many long-term dangers of glyphosate — as a mineral chelator, as an antibiotic, as a cause of plant disease, and more

Acres U.S.A. You’ve been speaking at the Acres U.S.A. conference for years, but people probably don’t know your whole background. You taught at Purdue, but where did you actually grow up?

Don Huber. I grew up in Arizona and in Idaho on dairy farms, after World War II. We wanted to expand and didn’t feel like the opportunities were there at the time in Arizona for either good land or water supply. So, we moved the dairy from Arizona to Idaho. As a freshman in high school, I rode a freight train with my father for six days, right before Christmas, to arrive in Idaho with a hundred head of heifers and four or five milk cows, to start our dairy in Idaho. I got well acquainted with those cows, being boxed up for six days with them. We had five cows milking while we were feeding calves, trying to move as much of the genetic stock as we could to start our new dairy in Idaho.

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Dr. Don Huber talks about his career as a researcher, professor and Army officer, as well as about the many long-term dangers of glyphosate — as a mineral

12/07/2024

Acres U.S.A. will move Ecological Agriculture forward, just as Charles Walters would have wanted. Not just today, but everyday, for the next 50 years.

We are blown away by your support and excitement in this movement of a smarter way forward for humanity and regenerative agriculture.

Please get excited for next year as we get ready for the 50th Annual Acres Conference, details to be announced! 🎉

Thank you all for joining us! 🌱

12/05/2024

🌱🌱 FINAL DAY is underway, we have a packed day for you! Make sure you make it back to our Keynote room for the Panel Debate with Gary Zimmer, Joel Salatin & Gabe Brown at 2:00pm moderated by John Kempf.
Following with our Closing Keynote from Joel Salatin () at 3:00pm!

12/05/2024

🌱🌱 FINAL DAY is underway, we have a packed day for you! Make sure you make it back to our Keynote room for the Panel Debate with Gary Zimmer, Joel Salatin & Gabe Brown at 2:00pm moderated by John Kempf.
Following with our Closing Keynote from Joel Salatin () at 3:00pm!

12/05/2024

Day 3 has wrapped up, We can’t thank you all enough for being here with us in this time. ❤️

To our speakers,

Thank you for joining together in this movement, as you are the most important piece of AcresUSA, the people, the farmers. To unite together for the greater good of our civilization— a greener, and more ecological future just as Charles Walters once said, “To be Economical, Agriculture Must Be Ecological.”

We can’t wait to grow with you. 🌱



Tag, if you want early access for next year.

12/04/2024

Allen Williams everybody, what a start to our Keynote Speakers…
Together we can restore the future of our agriculture.

Tomorrow we start with a Keynote Erin Silva, and ending with Gabe Brown!

12/02/2024

Thank you all for joining us for Day 1 of Eco Ag 2024, a lot of great conversations happening around the rooms.
Thank you to our speakers that spent time with us, we couldn’t be here without you!

See you tomorrow for another info-packed day! 🌾

11/26/2024

Timing Every Seeding
By Acres U.S.A.

A short interview with Seedtime cofounders Paul and Edwin Dysinger about how crop planning software can significantly improve efficiency on the farm or garden.

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A short interview with Seedtime cofounders Paul and Edwin Dysinger about how crop planning software can significantly improve efficiency on the farm or garden

11/25/2024

📚Book of the Week Sale! 📚
"A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line"
By Charles Walters

This book is the culmination of Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters’ lifetime of experience, written in his honest, straight-ahead style, outlining how the small farmer-entrepreneur can find his way to a profitable bottom line.

Head over to our online Bookstore and use code: BottomLine30 at checkout to receive 30% off.

11/22/2024

🚜 It’s Farm Friday, gang!

Introducing Bayou Sarah Farms!
Located just 30 miles north of Baton Rouge.
Are you local to this farm? Let’s help support our local regenerative farmers! You can learn more about this farm and other highlighted farms by subscribing to our weekly newsletter! You can also find out other news and events here at Acres U.S.A!

11/22/2024

Luke Jones, a rural West Central Illinois native and father of three, has transitioned from a conventional agriculture career to running his own farm. Despite early doubts about farming as a livelihood, Luke pursued an Agriculture Science degree from Western Illinois University and worked in ag retail before returning to farming. Influenced by alternative agricultural practices and mentors like Gabe Brown and Dr. Williams, Luke now focuses on importing Australian White Sheep, row crops, and improving land sustainability for future generations.

Link to Register for the Conference: https://conference.eco-ag.com/conference-