Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organic farming is a practice that emphasizes natural processes, ecological balance and the conserving of resources. For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Take mass balance fraud: A producer gets an organic certificate for 100 acres of grain and begins selling grain for those 100 acres.

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Food Supply Chain Farming Farming 101

Caff

MAY 2, 2022

I work about one and half acres that I rent. In addition to working my farm, I also run a farmer training program and Ag education center, the Ecological Agriculture Training and Cultural Center in Norco. Obviously, I will have to add a couple acres to make it all happen but that is what a vision is all about!”

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm. But through cooperation, determination and community, they pulled through.

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Food Farming Farming Ecology 52

Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.”

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Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Of the 160-acres, Jenna and Thomas steward 25-acres to grow organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers and raise honeybees. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a lot of ways, carbon farming is like organic farming—the end result is good for a lot of people and agro-ecological systems, but our societal’s economic system isn’t really structured to reward this slow path. In 2019, it was over my head while I was sitting on the tractor! This was just last week in our resting high tunnel!

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Cultivation Farming Farming Crop 52

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. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 23, 2025

Not many commodity farmers are farming like grandpa did: running open-station narrow front tractors with trip buckets: milking in buckets: using pull-type combines: a scythe: or draft animals power to do most of their farming (unless they are part of a small agricultural sub-community). Yet change is common in agriculture and life.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ecology Tractor 83

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Galen and Linda had been under tremendous stress since they took over the 160-acre family farm. They had initially arranged to split responsibilities with Galens high-school-aged brother, but the plan fell apart only months later when he was killed in a tractor accident. Stay in the Loop!

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ruralism 54