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. She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie.

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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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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

Red Hen Turf Farm is one way! I had the opportunity to ride along with Max Niespodziany, Senior Financial Officer with Farm Credit Mid-America, as he delivered a patronage check to Red Hen Turf Farm. It was my first time on a turf farm! Red Hen Turf Farm Max and I met up with Gordon Millar, the owner of Red Hen Turf Farm.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. Then he asks: “I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?” The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. The farm also teaches local students about agriculture and conservation—and donates much of the fruits and vegetables it grows to people in need.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

The American family farm is the cornerstone of our nation—but is its existence in jeopardy? As the land of the free and home of the brave, the American family farm has been a foundational part of this nation and the meaning of independence. According to the 2022 ag census, family farms still dominate U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The farm safety net is a cornerstone of agriculture policy and is a fault line in ongoing farm bill negotiations,” said report author Billy Hackett, NSAC Policy Specialist. Ultimately, the report recommends lawmakers adopt common-sense policy reforms to build a sustainable farm safety net that is fair, functional, and informed.

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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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Tillable

JULY 22, 2024

Rankings: Top 10 States with the Most Land Ownership in 2024 The average acres owned by a landowner varies dramatically across states in America, reflecting the unique characteristics and historical factors which influence land ownership among individuals and families. What do you think this map shows about rural land ownership in America?

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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. Reclaim Urban Farm was born out of that.”

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Research underway at a Madison County solar farm promises to shed light on how well multi-use farming can work at a large scale. The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

By October 1, Congress will need to fund the government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 and determine how to extend ( again ) the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). In Search of a Farm Bill In November 2023, the five-year 2018 Farm Bill was extended for nearly a full year, through September 30, 2024.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 15, 2024

This week, farmers, consumers, and advocates across the country are making calls to Congress with a central message: pass a farm bill for all farmers that centers conservation, not consolidation. Farm bill negotiations may be heating up once again after a standstill that has left members of Congress divided about what to prioritize.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

During the growing season of 2023 as summer turned into fall, the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast and Regeneration Canada were on the final leg of the Stories of Regeneration tour. This next phase of our journey brought us to Cawston, British Columbia, acclaimed as the Organic Farming Capital of Canada.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Agriculture Census reports that farming in Alaska is vibrant and expanding rapidly. Agriculture Census reports that farming in Alaska is vibrant and expanding rapidly. The 2017 U.S.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’ve always found ways to turn “waste materials” into useful resources on the farm fascinating. On my farm, I tried to reuse and recycle resources as much as possible to close the off-farm input loop. I think farms can become more resilient as they rely on fewer off farm inputs.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

After a record high in 2022, farm income is anticipated to decline by 22 percent in 2023. In 2022, landowners experienced record high farm income, with net farm income reaching $183 billion. Net Farm Income and Cash Farmer Income, Inflation Adjusted (billion dollars) Note: F = forecast. Data as of August 31, 2023.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Farm income was at an all-time high in 2022 but not without challenges, according to the latest ag census. But the latest ag census also revealed a deeper, more concerning story regarding the current and future state of American agriculture—farms are shrinking in numbers and expanding in size. Farms are consolidating.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Agritourism is any venture on a farm or ranch that’s not directly related to raising and harvesting produce or livestock commercially. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. How Farms Benefit from Agritourism In a study of 173 farmers, respondents were asked to rank the importance of agritourism benefits.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, the US has lost both farms and farmland, according to the latest data from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture , released this week. The US is now home to about 880 million acres of farmland, down from 900 million at the time of the last census in 2017. million farms. It doesn’t have to be.”

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Accelerating Appalachia has launched an innovative program to support underserved farmers and expand regenerative farming across Central/Southern Appalachia and the rural Southeast, including Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Southeastern Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Northern Georgia.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. And in the Midwest, 127 million acres of land overall are dedicated to ag, said the USDA.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Though San Diego is home to more small farms than any county in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s here, on this 100-degree August day, to show high school and college students—the future of the Winnebago Tribe—how Ho-Chunk Farms, the tribe’s farming company, is changing the face of agriculture on their reservation. The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. Ho-Chunk Inc.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. Around 2018, Prusia received a second federal loan, this time from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), specifically geared toward women and minority producers. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Caff

JUNE 7, 2022

Annie Main has always known water, or the lack of it, loomed as the greatest threat to Good Humus , her 30-acre farm in rural northern California in an area known as Hungry Hollow. The post Will California’s New Groundwater Rules Hurt Small-Scale Farms and Farmers of Color? Without water, we can’t function,” she says.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You see, becoming a full-time sheep farmer was never the plan, but farming runs in the family, and it has become a way of life. On a hot July Sunday afternoon at the farm, while she repaired fencing and bridges, I learned her story. Julie’s grandparents farmed, and she grew up on her parent’s beef farm in Ontario, WI.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 5, 2024

If you’re a rural landowner, you know as well as us that land is your most valuable asset and must be used wisely to build long-term financial success. Throughout our years of navigating both the financial and ag markets, we’ve learned a thing or two when it comes to farm finance. ” Mike D.,

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Daily Yonder

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers believe it’s not just because many farmers have other risk factors, such as rural addresses and access to guns. He noted many farms have been passed down for generations. She has lived on farms, and she has seen how the profession can become a person’s entire identity. A lot of them are born to it.

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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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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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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Paul Sweetland brings a bucket-like object with him to work on a blueberry farm in Rockport — not to collect Maine’s hallmark fruit, but to protect his head. That’s because this farm is a little unusual: Looming over the narrow rows of wild blueberries are 8-foot-tall solar panels.

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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. Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year.

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