Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Brandon Davis Brandon helps manage a 12,000-acre operation alongside his father, running a small cow-calf herd of 50 head. Carly, pursuing her veterinary technician license, manages the cattle books, helps with feeding and doctoring, and plays an integral role on the ranch.

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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. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

Due to the farm being in a more rural and remote area, it took about four days from when the fire initially started to when there was a firefighter presence near their farm. The farmers and firefighters worked tirelessly for those weeks and in the end Brisa Ranch was able to save most of their main building infrastructure, tools, and crops.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As such, strictly grass-fed or grass-finished operations tend to be modest in scale, says Cheung, with the majority of ranches in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. That’s 20 million acres, or as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack puts it, every state in New England except Connecticut. million farms. Here are three of our top takeaways from the data.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. “I’m The quality of rural care can be low.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Each week is dedicated to a different farm-business-health topic,” Buckner said.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024, S.5335 5335 , sharing a detailed vision for keeping farmers farming, families fed, and rural communities strong. (November 25, 2024) On Monday, November 18th, U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Critics of this approach will likely argue that it would require too much labor and take too many acres to grow cover crop seed. We’ve been chasing that rabbit for decades and it has hollowed out the heart of rural America.

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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. The Grinnell training session was part of a federal program called the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network. He and his brother-in-law raise corn and soybeans on the 500-acre farm where Haglund grew up.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. That could be a major issue in lots of rural places, including Alvez’s neck of the woods in Vermont, where cell service often cuts in and out.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

While some agricultural and forestry projects might fit into the existing priority project categories, opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon through changes in farm, forest and ranch management would more appropriately fall under additional project categories. We urge the U.S. In conclusion, U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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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. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. What is agritourism?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

acres of corn and 10 acres of hay to feed them. I asked why, and he told me the water was on the main floor of the house, and he didnt know what he was going to do. Gene has a small beef farm with 15 cow/calf pairs and raises 1.5 Cove Creek stream flows through his farm. Gulley in Gene’s hay fields. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That’s good for rural communities as well as the planet.” Producers interested in learning more can visit the Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership website (fiberpartnership.ncat.org) and fill out an interest form.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These much-needed payments are helping farming and ranching operations recover following natural disasters in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Ranchers who lost grazing acres due to drought and wildfire and received assistance through ELRP Phase One will soon receive an additional payment through ELRP Phase Two.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. A good example is Christina Allen’s 10-acre farm in Maryland. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service promote sustainable agriculture practices benefitting both rural communities and wildlife.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2023, farm real estate value rose $280 per acre to an average of $4,080. Cropland Prices Cropland values increased $410 per acre to an average of $5,460. Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. That is a 7.4 That is an 8.1 That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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Caff

MARCH 27, 2023

The Local Food Producers Bill, if passed, will help identify and create a legal definition for “Local Food Producers”, independently-owned farms operated on less than 500 acres who sell direct to their local community. Join us today in calling on our state leaders to pass this bill!

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 22, 2023

Under the new agreement, there is a continued focus on agricultural research and increased support for water development, with an increased funding cap in the Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure Program and a larger per acre payment under the Irrigation Development Program.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Data from Global Forest Watch indicate that the municipality of San José del Fragua alone lost 1,433 acres of forest between 2020 and 2021. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

If successful, the experiment could provide a roadmap for hundreds of farming and ranching communities nationwide whose groundwater stores are dwindling at unprecedented rates. In southwestern Colorado’s high desert, producers already till fewer acres, tax themselves to fund fallowing programs, and plant less water-intensive crops.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 7, 2024

The Texas panhandle fires, also known as the Smokehouse Creek fires, are a devastating blow to many cattle ranchers throughout the state, with more than a million acres caught in the blazes. Information and resources for ranchers impacted by the Texas Panhandle fires. How will the Texas panhandle fires impact the global cattle market?

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

For Topper, the issue is about the way the installation has disrupted the peace of her rural life. They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. I expected that they were just gonna put the panels over the vegetation.

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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. But if you meet the requirements listed below, you would most likely be eligible to apply for a loan with any farm loan lender.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. This wasn’t about ranching, this was about everything. Salatin was a real farmer.

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