National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The report finds that more than $142 billion was distributed through farm safety net programs from 2017-2022: $46 billion to crop insurance premium subsidies, $29 billion to commodity programs, and $67 billion to ad-hoc disaster assistance.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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Crop Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 79

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This sort of production could make it possible for more diverse farmers to succeed, and for a greater variety of products distributed into local markets. Rethinking urban growth boundary expansion to include small-scale farming, as well as making it possible to sever 50 acre farm lots in rural municipalities would be a good place to start.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

As above, it is likely that some rural communities will be classified as disadvantaged through the CEJST. However, reforestation projects account for just 4.15% of the forest acres on these registries. In addition, it states that “EPA expects to provide each applicant with flexibility to invest in additional project categories.”

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Greenhouse Forestry Finance Supply Chain 130

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 106

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Award Highlights NSAC congratulates all LCM recipients, including the following NSAC members: California Alliance of Family Farms (CAFF) , World Farmers , Cultivate Kansas City , Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) , Maine Farmland Trust , Agrarian Trust , and Land Stewardship Project (LSP).

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, while some of our recommendations were voiced in the Pathways to Farming Senate Subcommittee hearing, the focus on base acres and reference prices as the best solution to support the next generation of farmers missed the mark ,” said Michelle Hughes, Co-Executive Director of Young Farmers. “

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Because we’re in an extremely rural location, we rely heavily on transportation to get our groceries from the next town over, which is 50 miles away,” Majenty says. “We Majenty hopes that these gardens will eventually cover more of the 1-million-acre reservation to help feed its approximately 1,400 residents.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

For Topper, the issue is about the way the installation has disrupted the peace of her rural life. They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. I expected that they were just gonna put the panels over the vegetation.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Solar developers and agriculture researchers from the University of Maine have been studying the issue for two years at this 12-acre, four-megawatt project in Rockport. Emmett Gartner covers accountability and Maine’s rural communities as a Roy W. It’s a whole different world.” Howard Fellow through the Scripps Howard Fund.

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Farming Farming Construction Agriculture 115

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will distribute more than $56 million to producers to enact climate-friendly practices and serve as a pilot program for a national model. According to Thompson, the credit for the pilot concept belongs to RIPE (Rural Investment to Protect our Environment).

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Farming Farming Forestry Agriculture 52

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. We’re hopeful to get our frozen berries into a wider distribution,” says Rick.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

hectares (less than 2 acres), and just over 40% of the population of around 3 million, work in agriculture – Albania’s primary economic sector. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. Today, the average holding is 1.4

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Because of all the data it gathered through studying its groundwater, the district developed a unique way of using and distributing that water. Credit: Keely Larson, RTBC S heridan County is extremely rural, home to about 3,500 people across its 1,706 square miles. Currently, the district is using about 10,000 acre feet.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. Sankofa spans 3.5

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes. We wanted to take what we were learning about [soil health] and push it further,” says Tim.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The food security part of this plan aims to increase local food production—on rural farms, city farms, backyard gardens and community gardens. “We That distribution can go to it staying here, rather than getting exported elsewhere and reduce the need for us to import food here,” says Albright.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, while some of our recommendations were voiced in the Pathways to Farming Senate Subcommittee hearing, the focus on base acres and reference prices as the best solution to support the next generation of farmers missed the mark ,” said Michelle Hughes, Co-Executive Director of Young Farmers. “

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Farming Farming Acre Agriculture 40

Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. Program funding to help farmers implement conservation practices on their farms has continued to increase, with $1 million distributed this year to 36 watershed groups across the state.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. When you see founders who really want to change the world, they’re so rare,” says Galina Chifina of RTP Global, one of Plantix’s early venture capital investors.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Underground greenhouses, emerged three decades ago in Bolivia as a way of trying to help rural communities gain food security. Conscious Alliance distributes shelf-stable food to about 25 families a week on the reservation and sometimes to the 14 schools. This past summer, we had tremendous hail storms that took out a lot of gardens.”

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Greenhouse Food Construction Harvester 52

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

In 1993, we self-published Pastured Poultry Profits: Net $25,000 in 6 months on 20 Acres. He called me and asked if they could distribute them. I became a distributed publisher for Chelsea and it was one of the best decisions I could have ever made. I think I’m Chelsea’s number one distributed publisher now. I hope not.

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Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 60

Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Finally, in 2017, they convinced Sakuma Brothers Farms—which occupies more than 1,500 acres in Washington State—to sign a pioneering collective bargaining agreement. Finally, in 2017, they found the 75-acre plot where the co-op farms today. Torres helped bargain the contract, and is still president of their union.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Outside of the University he owns and operates a cottage-food business, Vulcan Mine Bakery, where he bakes and provides free business consultations for rural redevelopment initiatives. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find. The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. The world produces enough food to feed everyone, if distributed equally,’” Barnett writes, quoting the founders of Food Not Bombs.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 135

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Tracing Big Ag control from seed to supermarket We can trace corporate power through every stage of food production and distribution, identifying some of the largest and most problematic corporate actors—think of them as the Monsantos of today—along the way.

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