Fields of Dreams
Land used primarily for growing crops and other agricultural products.
What is Farmland?
Land used primarily for grazing livestock and supporting native vegetation rather than cultivated crops.
What is Rangeland?
This asset acts as a bank account, an insurance policy, and a retirement fund.
What is a family farm?
Pays farmers a per-acre fee not to grow crops on highly erodible land for 10 – 15 years.
What is the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)?
58, means that in the next few decades many of America's farms will be in new hands.
What is the average age of America's farmers and ranchers?
They produce less than $10,000 a year in gross sales, and the owners rely mainly on off- farm jobs.
What are hobby farms?
State with the highest percentage of rangeland.
What is Nevada?
Highly productive soils, a slope of 8% or less, and adequate rainfall or water access.
What is prime farmland?
Intended to minimize the impact of federal programs may have on the unnecessary and irreversible conversion of farmlands into land for non-agricultural uses.
What is the Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA)
Laws that are designed to reduce conflicts between farmers and nonfarm neighbors due to farming operations often using heavy machinery and chemical sprays.
What are right-to-farm laws?
Pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, and livestock manure can attach to soil particles and threaten the quality of water and aquatic life.
What is agricultural water pollution?
An animal feed lot consisting of 1000 units of livestock weighing 1000 pounds. This translates roughly to 1,000 cattle, 2,500 hogs, or 30,000 chickens.
What is a Confined Animal Feeding Operation? (CAFO)
Fertilizers and dust seeping into neighboring properties, machines being loud, and livestock producing foul odors.
What are concerns from nonfarm neighbors?
Limits how farmland can be developed, ensuring the land remains for agricultural uses, partners with landowners to purchase wetland reserve easements. Works to restore, enhance, and protect wetlands and water quality.
What is the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)?
Offers farmers limited protection without land-use restrictions such as zoning.
What are Agricultural Districts?
The "Three Sisters" farming method used by Indigenous peoples includes these three crops.
What is corn, beans, and squash?
The largest rangeland region in the United States, covering parts of 11 states and primarily used for cattle grazing.
What is the Great Plains?
The economic value that land gains when it is used for agricultural production, which can be impacted by factors like soil quality, water availability, and market demand for crops.
What is agricultural productivity?
Federal agency that oversees agriculture, food safety, and rural development.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
This state does not have right-to-farm laws, probably because everyone living there inherently understands the idea.
What is Iowa?