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. We’re talking about rural communities that have smaller populations, and those impacts are felt much more widely through communities, because it’s not just one employee out of thousands.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 30, 2023

Instead of beautiful green trees, I saw thousands of acres of dead, scraggly trees. The darling of the industry is a drug drip—the mechanical view. I just spent a couple of days in and around Orlando, Florida, the heart of Florida’s orange production country. Just a few years ago, Florida produced 240 million 90-lb. crates of oranges.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

percent of farms offering both agritourism and direct-to-consumer sales (such as through U-pick, farm stands, and farmers’ markets) were under 100 acres. They invested in a mechanical harvester a few years ago. “In Since the farm is in a rural area, she was on hold with 911 for 10 minutes before anyone even answered her call. “I

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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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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. The harvester has a vibrating mechanism that shakes the berries off the branches and collects them onto a conveyor.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Jim Massey Rural Voices Correspondent During the first year of the Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Grant Program in 2016, $242,550 was awarded to 14 groups. This year, $1 million was awarded to a program-record 36 groups across the state. Once again, it’s a learning curve,” he said. “We We’re not the culprits. Work with us.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. The loss of these small farms hurts rural communities, paves the way for environmentally harmful monocropping, and prevents farmers from building economic power through agriculture. So they moved.

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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

MARCH 31, 2025

Theyll end at the UFW union hall at 40 Acres, where grape growers gathered in 1970 to sign their first UFW contracts. When I first related this possibility to these workers, they were just in shock that anybody cared and that anybody had a mechanism for them to advocate for themselves, she said.

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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.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Danny Cowan, farmer and co-owner of Red Tail Grains in North Carolina, says he and co-owner George Allen have invested roughly $150,000 in equipment to grow and process grains like Turkey Red winter wheat on about 70 acres. In 2021, about 70 million acres of wheat fields were eligible for subsidies through commodity programs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2025

The continuation of these cuts and others – even for a short time – will result in limited impacts and ultimately more farmers, ranchers, and rural businesses being turned away due to lack of funding. The availability of assistance and the precise mechanism for distribution will be determined by the incoming Administration.

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