Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.” Jason Isbell’s “Last of My Kind” calls out a family farm becoming a Wal-Mart parking lot. Subdivide, give it a name.”

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Farmland Ruralism Acre Real Estate 109

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.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built?

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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

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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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. The land has been in our family since 1892, but the ownership hasn’t exactly been “linear.” I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

“ Secure, equitable access to land is critical for ensuring national food security, and an investment in access to farmland in the next farm bill will generate immense returns for taxpayers,” said David Howard, Policy Development Director at Young Farmers. “

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

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Between the years 2017 and 2022, America lost almost 20 million acres of farmland. Despite this rapid decline, the average farm size increased five percent to 463 acres. This ag census data highlights the trend toward farm consolidation as more and more family farm operations are feeling the pressure to go big or get out.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. Family members share that risk.

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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. It was on Janssen’s family farm in the state’s Ozark Mountains where her uncle rolled his tractor—which had no ROPS—into a ravine in the 1980s. There were a lot of comments.

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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. 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

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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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. lost nearly 142,000 farms from 2017 to 2022. During that same period, an estimated 20 million acres of farmland went out of production. has been in decline. According to the USDA Ag Census , the U.S. agricultural industry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Both practices reduce their climate risk while increasing the farm’s ability to absorb carbon. Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Part of a state-wide program to help reduce farm-chemical run-off entering groundwater and waterways, these are considered “incentives” – not “entitlements” – which help farmers transition to more sustainable practices.

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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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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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Farming Farming Seeding Acre 52

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This direct feedback–from farmers urban and rural, small and mid-sized, and with a diversity of racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds–will now serve as the foundation of CAFF’s advocacy in 2022, guiding our priorities, policy stances, and our conversations with state leaders in the year ahead. WANNA GET MORE INVOLVED?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

“This is the moment for Congress to take action and ensure that the 2023 Farm Bill delivers material benefits for historically underserved farmers, ranchers, and forest owners striving to establish and grow their operations.” As the average age of farmers continues to rise, our nation faces an unprecedented generational transfer of farmland.

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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. To learn more about DATCP’s statewide program for farmer-led councils, visit , [link] To learn more about the Wisconsin Farmers Union and learn how you can support family farms and rural quality of life visit , www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Awards will be bestowed during the conclusion of the California Small Farm Conference on February 28, a free event featuring keynote speaker, Nikki Silvestri. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr. started farming as a form of self-transformation and restoration.

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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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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. Members huddled under a covered pavilion for live music, farm-fresh food, and local brew from Odd13 Brewing , while the rain poured down.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

Family farms are the backbone of our food system. More than 90 percent of farms—about 500 million—are run either by individual or family labor! billion people worldwide are involved in family farming, and these operations produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food value, according to U.N. More than 1.5

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the book, we meet Brandon Kaufman, a Kansas farmer who, after generations of family farming, plans “to get a divorce from wheat” to focus on perennials as a way to nurture the soil and the vital underground network of insects and microorganisms within it. Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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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. In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Conservation and Climate The benefits of on-farm conservation programs are widespread.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most respondents were farmers managing small-scale operations between 1-5 acres, and mostly women! We have been concerned with the increasing use of the H-2A guestworker program in agriculture, which is expensive and requires the provision of housing, something few family farms in California will be able to afford.

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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. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said.

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