Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This event, organized by the Farm Credit Associations in the CoBank District, is designed to help young and beginning farmers and ranchers enhance their business skills, build valuable relationships, and learn from fellow producers nationwide. In addition to managing 30 head of stockers and 14 cows, he also trains horses.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released “ Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill ”, a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill).

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The loss of farmers in Canada is exacerbating these problems, with the farming population shrinking and aging significantly. This trend reveals that few young people from farming families are choosing to stay in farming, and those from non-farming backgrounds face obstacles like high costs and a lack of training.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Following the formation of the USDA in 1862 and the abolishment of slavery in 1865, many formerly enslaved African Americans pursued independent farming. Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. This was a losing battle for most of them.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators.

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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). This system of integrating ducks into rice farming has been effectively used in Asian countries for hundreds of centuries.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. The star-studded film Kiss the Ground , featuring celebrities Woody Harrelson and Tom Brady, put the movement on the map in 2020, claiming that regenerative farming could be the solution to, not the cause of, climate change, biodiversity loss and soil erosion.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Its much more complex than that.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Saskatoon berry production reduces soil erosion & mitigates the risk of climate change on Solstice Berry Farm By Trina Moyles Rick and Marsha Gelowitz were brand new to farming when they bought their farm northwest of Calgary in 1994. The Gelowitz’s kept a garden on their farm where they grew several Saskatoon bushes.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. In its second year, the Challenge sought submissions from around the world for innovations that can help solve the unique challenges facing small farms and local food systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Just off of State Route 20 headed west out of Burlington sits the Skagit Valley location of Viva Farms. Viva Farms is a nonprofit that helps new and limited-resource farmers with access to land, equipment and more, and this site is home to 18 incubator farms and a half-acre student farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. But numerous exhibits had drones to fly on chemicals and AI mechanisms to adjust chemical fertilizer. I told the chipper guys that if every farm had one of those babies and a manure spreader, half the exhibitors could go home because they’d be obsolete.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

The debate surrounding industrial agriculture and farm consolidation is complex and multifaceted. On one hand, industrial agriculture is criticized for contributing to the decline of small family farms and promoting unsustainable practices. But at the same time, the average size of farms has been steadily on the rise since 2007.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. Writing in 1985, Steele presents a clear-eyed view of the complex environmental, economic and social challenges that were facing farmers, many of which continue to be at the heart of today’s conversations about our food and farming system. Intensive farming, as we know it, did not exist.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Following the formation of the USDA in 1862 and the abolishment of slavery in 1865, many formerly enslaved African Americans pursued independent farming. Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. This was a losing battle for most of them.

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Caff

MARCH 15, 2022

BACKGROUND: Last year, when a young farmer was stopped in his tracks while trying to establish a new organic farm, we learned that Cotati forbids the growing of crops for sale within city limits on most properties, even if sold direct to neighbors. Increase the number of hens allowed to 20 per acre.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Manure is the primary fertility source in organic farming systems. Far from it.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Soil prep increases time, labor, and overall farming costs, and potentially increases soil disturbance. Direct seeding provides the best seed-to-soil contact and opportunity for establishment.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

We’ve put together a guide of the most common types so you can choose the best one for your farm. Center pivots are also used on larger areas than other types of systems - approximately 20 acres (8 hectares) per machine and up to 1,000 acres (405 hectares) with multiple machines running at once.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Here, Becky reflects on the thriving biodiversity on their hill farm and the interconnectedness of the farm and nature.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ryan Mason transitions a successful urban farm operation back to his rural roots in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. He spent the first eighteen years of his life on his family’s farm — a small-scale chicken operation — in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. We both wanted to get into farming as a way to contribute to bettering the food system,” says Ryan.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. The total nitrogen requirement for wheat can vary, but it’s often in the range of 60 to 120 pounds per acre. Adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium are typically maintained at 15-30 pounds per acre of P2O5 and K2O, respectively.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

At Arla Foods , its UK emissions are 4.8MtCo23 and 83% of those come from its farms. Arla is running pilots with 24 farmers in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark to “explore regenerative farming methods in a structured and coordinated manner.” Nestlé ’s footprint is 92MtCO2e with 71% from ‘ingredients sourcing’.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago. Locals and tourists alike go there to enjoy the bounty of Brazil’s legendary abundance of plant and animal life.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Some have joined groups to learn about innovative farming practices such as cover crops, minimum tillage or low-disturbance manure application. Program funding to help farmers implement conservation practices on their farms has continued to increase, with $1 million distributed this year to 36 watershed groups across the state.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

In a more sheltered part of the bay, the Welcomes farm sugar kelp and oysters. They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. It was slippery, al dente, and tasted a little, but not unpleasantly, like blood.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), is losing an average of two tons of topsoil per acre annually. and various production technologies.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. As a general rule of thumb, 1 ton per acre of lime will raise pH by 0.3 Its much more complex than that. Youll be glad you did.

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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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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I Against all odds, their family farm has persisted, part of the just 1 percent of remaining Black-owned farms in the United States. When the U.S. Albert Johnson Jr.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

My heartfelt thanks for following us, if you do, and for your part in striving, as we all are, not only to make sense of the strange and challenging world in which we find ourselves, but also to ensure that in the future the food we eat has a better farming story behind it.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Heroes are People who do the work on farms.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 30, 2023

Instead of beautiful green trees, I saw thousands of acres of dead, scraggly trees. A disease is running rampant through the groves and turning many of these farms upside down financially and emotionally. The darling of the industry is a drug drip—the mechanical view. Just a few years ago, Florida produced 240 million 90-lb.

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