ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

We can’t escape the season of mud, but there are some management strategies that can help minimize the number of impacted acres. Photo: Tammy Barnes, NCAT This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development.

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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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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. For example, in 2016, after receiving a complaint, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) cited Argus for selling eggs from small farms that hadn’t processed their eggs in a licensed facility. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On July 11, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved their FY2025 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill with unanimous, bipartisan agreement.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

The farm is a beautiful certified organic working farm situated on 90 acres in the south-central part of the state where they grow vegetables and raise beef, lamb, and layers. In addition, the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) is a grant program administered through USDA’s Rural Development office.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

It all began with the purchase of a 20-acre lawn that conveniently came with a home. A Closer Look at Hair Sheep This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. I knew it wasn’t for me in 2015.

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Agwired

JULY 28, 2023

Celebrate marketing excellence by submitting your nominations for the NAMA Professional Development Awards by August 1. For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) that attacks commodity checkoff programs.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Acres of abandoned olive groves, a global supply crisis and the apocalyptic threat of an invasive bacteria might not sound like a promising formula for small-scale olive growers in Puglia, Italy’s largest production region. An abandoned landscape As in many other parts of the world, rural depopulation is a massive problem.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Inspired by Wendell’s Manifesto, I wanted to instill the place with the contradiction embodied in his poem. To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.”

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Secondly, we know that for each percent of organic matter above 2%, a nitrogen credit of about 20 pounds per acre can be considered before applying nitrogen fertilizer for a crop. This is probably because most cool-season greens have a lower nitrogen requirement and there is enough left in the soil from what was supplied to summer crops.

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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 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. Without family farms, we would not eat.

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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. As we enter a new quarter century, here are 125 organizations to follow and support in 2025. agricultural policy.

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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. agency IFAD supports rural communities’ efforts to increase their food and nutrition security and their incomes.

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Basil Gooden as USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development. cotton acres. The Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI) Foundation announced that its building will be named after Bill Northey and simply called “The Northey Building”.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 8, 2024

During the event, Reed presented progress on their newly launched Honduras TREE program , a CGI 2023 Commitment to Action for Climate Resilience , which aims to empower 1,250 small-scale farmers to regenerate over 12,800 acres of degraded land. The conference garnered media attention and fostered cross-sector partnerships.

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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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ProAg

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In a series of barn visits in Minnesota, President Joe Biden announced this week that the White House is looking to increase support in rural America. has lost more than 400,000 farmers since the 1980s and more than 141 million acres of farmland. Read more on rural policy issues and presidential comments here.

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Agwired

JANUARY 24, 2025

bushels per acre, 2.0 million acres in 2024, is down 4 percent from 2023. bushels per acre, 0.1 bushels per acre, 0.1 Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development is excited to announce the launch of a new Clean Energy website , a proactive approach to promote clean energy projects in rural America.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By threatening to renege on these contracts, the Trump Administration is breaking commitments to farmers and threatening the economic stability of rural America. The nations farmers, and rural America as a whole, deserve the certainty that the USDA will honor its commitments and immediately release funds on all signed contracts.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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