Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Tony Schultz put his own twist on the diversified family farm in Athens, Wis., raising hogs, cattle, vegetables — and pizza.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2025

Rachel Bouressa is a fifth-generation farmer and grazing specialist Rachel Bouressa is a fifth-generation farmer and grazing specialist who operates the Bouressa Family Farm in Waupaca County in central Wisconsin. The programs freeze has resulted in a $60,000 loss for her farm in just one week.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays. Understanding Data-Driven Farming Farming today is more than just relying on instinct or what was done in the past. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

.); Jayson Berryhill , Wholechain; Jay Bhatt , The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; Joseph Brinkley , Bonterra Organic Estates; Pat Brown , Impossible Foods; Sweta Chakraborty , We Don’t Have Time; Joi Chevalier , Austin Travis County Food Policy Board, The Cooks Nook; Chaz Daughtry , Sweetwater Farms, Soulfitgrill Seasonings; Maj.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 8, 2024

expanded their family farm to 2,000 acres and 1,800 cows. 2024 Master Agriculturists from Waunakee, Wis.,

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. They want to come out to the farm.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As kavas allure grows, so, too, have local restrictions. In Florida, the so-called U.S.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). Additionally, being such a novel method of farming in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled the most, despite selling something we all need—food. Why is running a small-scale farm more like an expensive hobby?

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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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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. We look forward to working with you to bring a bipartisan 2024 farm bill to fruition. Thank you for considering our request.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Caiti Hachmyer of Red H Farm in South Sebastopol started a CSA in 2020 which helped her farm survive the pandemic but the heavy workload took its toll. Rebecca Bozzelli of Lantern Farm in Cloverdale also was able to pivot to selling farm boxes but not without cost. “It She farms 1.5 It was non-stop.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

America’s farmers, especially beginning and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers face insurmountable challenges, yet 87 percent of young farmers are dedicated to regenerative, climate-smart farming practices. The next farm bill can fix this. with farmer Michelle Week of Good Rain Farm really impacted me.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Holden Farm Dairy is one such unit.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

The Wall Street Farm Bill was precisely the sort of law that President Truman warned about in 1948. The sort of balance encouraged by the New Deal Farm Bill preserved economic stability and insulated farmers from fluctuations in prices. That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recent statistics on American agriculture reveal a decline of 200,000 farms between 2007 and 2022. million farms —to 2 million from 6.8 The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community.

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Food Tank

MARCH 31, 2025

. “The Brighter Future Funds Emergency Resilience Grant is not only meant to help ease immediate hardships but also provide stability for the future, says Ashley Brucker, Senior Manager of Grantmaking, Brighter Future Fund & Farm Viability tells Food Tank. The fund has distributed over US$4.5 The fund has distributed over US$4.5

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. When I visited the farm in late 2022, research supervisor JP Bergmann showed me the 40 varieties on which they were then focused in their breeding program. Rice growing in one of the Lundberg Family Farms test greenhouses.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. The tractor, the most ubiquitous tool on America’s farms, is also the most dangerous. In one instance, a 56-year-old man had worked on his father’s farm all his life.

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Organic Farming Research

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Tiffany Stanley runs A Different Chick Farm, a Certified Organic family farm on just under 6 acres in Johnson City, Tennessee. She is participating in OFRF's Farmer Led Trials (FLT) Program to explore options for making on-farm compost to reduce input needs and increase fertility on her farm.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. Join us for the awards ceremony on Feb 28 as part of this year’s California Small Farm Conference. Janet ran the farm for 24 years until her recent retirement. Learn more here.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Food and farming writer, Steph Wetherell, explores the potential of share farming, an agricultural model common in the New Zealand dairy farming industry and on the rise in the UK, whereby new entrants gain access into farming through connecting with existing landowners who in turn benefit from the support they receive for succession arrangements.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Steven and Alaina Imhoff knew they wanted to expand their hog farming at Triple Creek Farms in southeast Iowa. Niman farmers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business. And who was really in charge when I was co-owner of our family dairy farm? I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

Hernández Reyes grew up subsistence farming with her parents in Oaxaca, and the garden spoke to her. She is now in her second season of managing a 1-acre farm that Outgrowing Hunger leases in the nearby town of Boring, Oregon. I was a gardener before, but I wanted to get to the next level of farming. And I said, ‘Yes!

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa. Johnson laughs.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“We lost 10 percent of our saleable Christmas trees that year,” says Leanna Anderson, owner of Aldor Acres Family Farm in Langley, British Columbia and treasurer of the BC Christmas Tree Association. Photo courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. But they’re adapting.

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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. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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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. They lived with friends in a number of different farm houses outside of Madison. When they purchased the farm, the front 40 acres were planted in corn.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. Instead, lets talk about cattle and making money.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Now let’s take a look at some of the economic costs and benefits of addressing erosion on farms and ranches. An example from our family farm is shown below. To determine the cost of erosion, I used the NRCS tolerable soil loss or “T” value for our farm of 5 tons per acre.

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