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. Payne’s family farm is a microcosm of American agriculture’s monocrop past and its changing future. We’re rethinking the farm process based on climate predictions,” Payne 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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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On top of this, they offer a generous and flexible buffer incentive payment for converted acres. Rick Hofland, a dairy farmer in the Horse Creek watershed of Polk County, recently joined his local council, and finds the council useful as he explores how to control erosion while managing manure on his fields.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. Now, with the Farm Bill debate continuing at least through September of this year, pricing policy reforms could take center stage.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

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. Most of the previous generations of my family were either dairy farmers or worked in fields closely related to dairy farming. And are those things related?

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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. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. is the first one that we worked with in the beef space. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. Decade of Family Farming, fostering policies and actions to enhance rural livelihoods and protect biodiversity.

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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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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Food Tank

MARCH 28, 2025

Larry Banowetz has raised pigs on his family farm in eastern Iowa for 45 years. Iowa farmland prices reached a record high in 2023, with an average price of US$11,835 per acre. He recently purchased his own farm and plans to use his pig manure to fertilize crop fields and build soil health.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2014, Lowell and Evelyn Trom learned that a farmer wanted to build a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) across the road from their family farm in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring.

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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. According to the USDA, more than 21,000 farms and 5.2 million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025.

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