Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Meet some Midwestern agrarians, some of whom come from conventional farming families, who are using their land to reestablish the connection between trees, animals, and food production. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years. The field was very skewed towards men.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. But farming can be a lonely, overwhelming task.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm. By analyzing aerial imagery, they were able to pinpoint areas suffering from nutrient deficiencies on their farm.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

My parents both worked full-time off the farm. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. And when I was in high school, around 2009, I started a community garden on our farm called “Project: Plant a Seed.” A childhood photo from the family farm.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. Photography courtesy of Burroughs Family Farms.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Most of the people in our ag program are coming from an agrarian background but are trying to be innovative with new ways to approach farming,” says Leventhal.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When his father, Randy, equipped his combine with a yield monitor in the early 1990s, teenage Ryan thought it was a huge step forward for the family farm. The Britts now farm 5,000 acres, raising cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hay in Randolph, Chariton and Macon counties.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

MFA will once again be a primary sponsor of the popular show, which features the latest agricultural equipment and many other attractions for farmers, ranchers and their families. Admission to the demonstrations is free to all Western Farm Show paid attendees. A Cattle Showmanship Seminar is planned Friday at 1 p.m.,

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Worse still, many of them have invested large amounts of money in huge buildings to house factory farmed animals, and they are financially exposed with no alternative deployment for the infrastructure they have borrowed on. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, NC. They raise beef cattle and plant wheat and soybeans. But they have been consistently stymied when it comes to internet access on their farm. Haxby and her family farm corn and soybeans and raise cattle and goats.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Stroup and her husband farm about 200 acres near Bessemer City, Nortth Carolina. They raise beef cattle and plant wheat and soybeans. But they have been consistently stymied when it comes to internet access on their farm. ” Haxby and her family farm corn and soybeans and raise cattle and goats.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Writing in 1985, Steele presents a clear-eyed view of the complex environmental, economic and social challenges that were facing farmers, many of which continue to be at the heart of today’s conversations about our food and farming system. INTENSIFICATION Modern farming is intensive. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. Environmental Protection Agency, nitrogen fertilizer sales increased from 17 pounds per acre in 1960 to 83.6 pounds per acre in 2013.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 29, 2024

One of the main bottlenecks for the farm bill has been disagreements over crop insurance —and how much funding should be allocated toward it. Opponents of increased crop insurance have long maintained that it drains taxpayers while benefiting large corporations and leaving more diversified family farm operations with nothing.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

And when Shad Dasher misses a call because he’s overseeing workers who hand-plant 84,000 individual onions per acre, his voicemail message offers an explanation: “You have reached the onion man,” it says. That’s because with 40 acres he can’t make a profit selling his onions to supermarkets anymore. “It

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Farming Farming Acre Food 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Because of the family fracture, she never visited India, did not speak the language, and could not replicate her grandmother’s traditional cooking.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. He told me multiple times that our family farm, when he was growing up, supported six families.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

tons of American agricultural soil per acre, costing farmers and ranchers US$44 billion annually and taxpayers nearly US$100 billion. a cattle rancher outside Atlanta, Georgia, an advocate for Black farmers, and a Democrat; and Rick Clark, a Republican fifth-generation farmer with 7,000 acres of row crops in Warren County, Indiana.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. It was like history repeating itself.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Agriculture was the first industry mentioned, and the ways in which consolidation was driving the loss of small family farms became one of Vilsacks most-cited talking points throughout the administration. A fifth rule related to creating fairer cattle markets is still in its early stages. Under his tenure, the U.S.

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