Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

farms has fallen below two million, with total farmland acres dropping to 880 million—the lowest since 1850. Rural communities lose not only their economic base but also a key part of their cultural identity. The Current State of American Family Farms According to the 2022 agricultural census , there are 1.9

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. Roa believes that SHI is “on track” but she notes that they need more partners to get them there.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. A 2022 study estimated an average of 2,000 acres of farmland are lost each day. If you’re looking to begin an agritourism business but you need to secure financing, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

During that same period, an estimated 20 million acres of farmland went out of production. Challenges and Barriers of Rural Land Ownership Before jumping to the solution, we must first properly understand the three biggest hurdles standing in the aspiring landowner’s way. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S.

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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 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Des Moines finances its removal system from its roughly 600,000 ratepayers. ppm for nitrates.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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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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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny. Conclusion Tractors, used responsibly, can turn more acres into productive, sustainable land, reducing food insecurity and improving the local economy in communities. Rural Sociology, 89: 3-39. Another barrier is knowledge.

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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 12, 2023

But they receive less than 2% of global climate financing. Teague added that 95% of the world’s farms are small-scale, but they only receive 2% of climate financing. We’re seeing that small businesses in very rural, very remote places with very limited resources are doing so much to try to invest in climate action.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Brooklyn Grange’s massive rooftop farms —which on a few acres produce more than 100,000 pounds of produce for markets, wholesale buyers, CSAs, and the city’s largest convention center each year—were not. He hadn’t considered including backyard gardens in rural areas in the sample, he said, even though city gardens were. “We

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In response to this, cash rents increased to an average of $307 per acre in 2023, increasing as much as 5.8% Get Unparalleled Agricultural Finance Insights AgAmerica offers a range of flexible financing options that can be tailored to fit the evolving needs of farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners nationwide.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 19, 2023

In rural Oklahoma, producers are asking how “carbon farming” works and, importantly, who benefits. Proponents argue the carbon trade will usher in an age of green finance that will protect biodiversity, incentivize conservation, and ease the energy transition. Many are tribal members, nearly all farm less than 100 acres.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Through the USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited decade-long Rice Stewardship Program , we have built a field team of partners who have worked on more than 1,000 rice farms spanning nearly one million acres, improving agricultural and environmental performances. Biolevel Ltd. ,

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family. However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. Resilience, livelihoods, and a rural way of life have been sacrificed on the altar of efficiency and progress.

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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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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 have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.”

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

– Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. Land Ownership – To qualify for a land loan, you must own or plan to buy 25 acres or more. With singular expertise in the ag finance space, we can help you gather the necessary documents to put your best foot forward.

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The Equation

MAY 8, 2023

Rural communities and communities of color are more at risk of unsafe water and inadequate sanitation due to historical disinvestment, regulatory failures, and structural racism. We analyzed the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) investments in rural water and wastewater infrastructure projects. billion in grants and $6.2

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

There was no blueprint for our business model,” which sought to change the world by improving the lives of hundreds of millions of growers who work just a few acres. When you see founders who really want to change the world, they’re so rare,” says Galina Chifina of RTP Global, one of Plantix’s early venture capital investors.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

“Independent family farms are the bedrock of healthy rural economies,” Jordan Treakle, National Programs and Policy Coordinator for the National Family Farm Coalition, tells Food Tank. For example, Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago.

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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. The food system cant change overnight, but the flow of finance can, says Dharshan Wignarajah, CPIs UK Director.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. Increases the minimum CRP Grasslands acreage from 2 million to 10 million acres. Raises rental rates for General and Continuous sign-ups.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Othow went to law school to learn more about the financing and regulation of solar power, and after gaining real-world experience with Strata Clean Energy in Chapel Hill, she struck out on her own with EnerWealth in 2017. Based in Oxford, North Carolina, the company’s goal is to maximize the benefits of the solar boom for rural communities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2023

For example, Michigan State University’s Center for Regional Food Systems , an NSAC member, will lead the Great Lakes Midwest Center alongside four key partners – Chicago Food Policy Action Council, Northwest Indiana Food Council, Food Finance Institute, and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Food Systems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Private investment in food and agriculture systems are designed to maximize a narrow concept of economic efficiency which fails to prioritize the well-being of small family farmers, rural communities, or the land. “In per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 USDA agencies, such as ARS perform the remainder.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 was recently introduced by U.S. This bill builds on the framework she shared earlier this year, with even more concrete proposals aimed at boosting rural communities and supporting farmers. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2020, he went back to northern Iowa and joined his father in farming 500 acres of corn and soybeans. Why It Matters Neonic-treated seeds are planted on approximately 90 million acres of corn fields and more than 40 million acres of soybean fields each year. This is true. has barely budged in its approach.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 3, 2024

Unless we can find a way to preserve Rural America and revitalize this essential industry, the stability of the economy and our food security remains in question. “During that consolidation, we’ve hollowed out a lot of Rural America.” During these discussions, some key topics were brought up.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” She points to Dirt Capital, which works with farmers in financing farmland, including through shared ownership models.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. He gets more pounds out of his acres than most farmers by controlling the smaller operation personally.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

And I realized that missing in the larger story of the rise of Iowa hog confinement in the media is the fact that people there did fight them for years; there was a rural rebellion —and they lost. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. That article did well online; a whole lot of people reached out to me afterwards.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothersthird-generation Black farmersstarted a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and milo.

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