Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve just read in Farmers Weekly that Tesco has announced their decision to reduce the number of dairy farmers in their milk supply pool , giving just 12-months’ notice to those who will be dropped. I do care passionately about this existential threat to the family dairy farm. Holden Farm Dairy is one such unit.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Supply Chain 128

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During that same time, production has grown, as only farms of more than 200 hectares (approximately 400 acres) have increased in number. According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland.

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Manure Farming Farming Production 108

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic. Could you stack multiple enterprises on the same acre?

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Ranching Farming Ruralism Farming 95

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. Im very proud of that.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 75

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

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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Farming Farming Farmland Ruralism 75

Caff

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During this year’s legislative cycle, we advocated for small business emergency relief funding, culturally appropriate technical assistance, new farmer training, as well as tool sharing and supply chain infrastructure. “The But when you’re a small family farm, you’re just trying to make ends meet.”

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Family Farming Food Supply Chain Farming 52

Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Despite this, regional food supply chains have long been under-funded and under-resourced. This year we will work with CDFA and allies to ensure this program will equitably support the growth of food systems jobs and the local farming economy. Farmers worked overtime to make up for and build this infrastructure on their own.

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Supply Chain Food Processing Integrated Farming 52

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic. Could you stack multiple enterprises on the same acre?

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Ranching Farming Farming Ruralism 59

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Here are snapshots from those visits: Members toured Sister Gardens, one of three sites that are part of Frontline Farming, based in Denver, CO, Sister Gardens is a vegetable, herb, and flower garden on more than one acre of land within the Aria Denver development. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St.

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

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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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

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. Does the author ultimately take on the family farm?

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 137

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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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

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. The organization aims to address systemic food supply chain issues and ultimately eliminate the need for their work.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

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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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

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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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For more than 30 years, the Thompsons had farmed on 20 acres, growing tomatoes, green beans, and squash—basic crops meant to provide food for themselves and the local community. On one of these trips to eastern Kentucky, I met Mr. and Mrs. Thompson (whose names I changed to protect their identities), a Black couple in their 60s.

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Ruralism Food Marketing Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lately, Heyn has been fielding inquiries from people looking to start mills with federal Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure grant funding , which supports the middle of the food-supply chain and bolsters markets for small farms and food businesses. Appalachian White Wheat at Brown Family Farms in Warren Co, NC.

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Grain Food Marketing Supply Chain 136

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The newly freed men and women desired land from the government, which resulted in an ordinance for the redistribution of 400,000 acres of land from South Carolina to Florida for the four million freedmen. After the antebellum plantation system ended, exploitative and oppressive systems continued through the sharecropping system.

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Food Plantation Sharecropping Farming 106

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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