Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

Every year, our community honors individuals, farms, and businesses who are making a positive difference in California. As a second-generation rancher, Rizpah honors her family’s agricultural traditions while confronting systemic barriers in a predominantly white, male-dominated field.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Family farming is a vital part of agriculture, providing food security and sustaining rural communities. This guide will cover essential aspects of family farmi

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Caff

JANUARY 10, 2025

This budget comes amidst wildfires raging in Southern California, impacting so many Californians including many urban farmers, farmers markets, community gardens and farms. We look forward to working with the legislature and administration on continuing to invest in Californias most vulnerable farming populations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joshua Cave, Cave Family Farm in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. However, the impact of these investments has only recently been better understood by recent program evaluations and additional data elements in the Agricultural Census. Read more from NSAC’s recent analysis of the 2022 Agricultural Census below.

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 14, 2025

Their business had been booming in Florida, where they farmed citrus and vegetables. But after a family member died, they decided to pack up and head to land they owned just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to process their loss in a new place. But their fresh start quickly turned sour. In September 2024, the U.S.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. The term data-driven decisions is becoming increasingly common in agriculture, but how committed are farmers to using data in their everyday practices? Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

As a young boy, Dr. Charles Vincent loved heading to the family farm just outside of Montreal, Quebec. His fascination with farming led him to start a degree in agronomy, where he instead fell in love with the study of insects, eventually leading to a 40-year career studying agriculture pests for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada….

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2025

Farmer Patrick Brown speaking at a recent NSAC virtual briefing On March 6, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) hosted a virtual briefing: Impact in the Field How the USDA Funding Freeze and Employee Layoffs are Impacting Farmers and Ranchers.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ho`la Farms, a small nonprofit on Hawaii Island, aims to use agriculture to help veterans rebuild a sense of purpose in their lives. Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2025

During a busy week of farm policy events in Washington D.C. As a younger farmer, Ive only farmed with the weather changing. The post Continuing USDA Funding Freeze Hangs Over Farm Policy Events appeared first on Civil Eats. These programs are a form of risk management, she said. Link to this post.)

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Real Agriculture

JULY 7, 2023

Many of you run family farm businesses filled with the opportunities, challenges and satisfaction that comes with it. This is true on the farm and. Read More Many of you run family farm businesses filled with the opportunities, challenges and satisfaction that comes with it. This is true on the farm and.

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USDA Blog

MAY 31, 2024

For basketball great Ralph Sampson, farming is his new game of choice. The new and beginning farmer is looking to resurrect his family’s farm and spur new economic growth on the ancestral land.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 9, 2024

The persistence of family farming is among the most surprising facts about the economics of food. and elsewhere most farms do not sell directly to consumers but operate behind the scenes, selling their produce in bulk to specialists for transport and distribution, often for use as ingredients in packaged and processed foods.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Whether you have a tractor, farm truck, or combine, you know that efficiently maintaining your farm equipment is crucial for maximizing productivity, prolonging machinery life, and ensuring a safe working environment. Here’s a comprehensive guide to farm equipment care and maintenance to help you maintain your farm equipment properly.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But recent research from the University of Georgia suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running. “If And one of the big factors in helping farms survive is women.”

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Agwired

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The USDA Economic Research Service 2024 Farm Sector Income Forecast shows farm income is down again this year, but not as much as it was last year. While the report compares different measures of farm income, the bottom line is that, adjusted for inflation, net farm income is forecast to decrease by $9.5 billion (6.3

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The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Department of Agriculture through its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The lawsuit, brought by anti-bioengineering activists (pretending to be worried about family farms), reinstates a regulatory framework in place since 1986, while the technology was only in its infancy and not yet even commercially available.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

Harvestly, a proud Farms Together partner, is bringing the freshest veggies straight to the SLO Food Bank to nourish the community. March started off as a rollercoaster ride when news broke that Farms Together our program delivering food sourced from local farmers to food insecure communities across Californiahad been paused indefinitely.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 26, 2023

The agriculture industry is fully aware that successful farm transition is not easy and comes with many potential barriers. Every family farm business is unique, but based on a new RealAgristudies study looking at farm transition, there are some common challenges to work through.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

always knew he wanted to raise his own family on a farm. He has farmed in the Chesapeake Bay watershed since the early 2000s and now works full-time with his son, Matt, growing corn, soybeans, and wheat whilehumanely raising pigs. But this is not typical for a family farmer in the United States. Only 4 percent of U.S.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Many of us have had to fight, over and over and over again, to get folks in power to take food and agriculture seriously. But thats changing now.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the last several years, agriculture has stormed onto the climate agenda. Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. Strong markets for agroecology mean that farmers are incentivized to practice climate resilient agriculture. And its about time.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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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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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Known as the Farmer’s Lawyer, Equity Commission Agriculture Subcommittee member Sarah Vogel has been vocal on issues impacting rural and Tribal communities; farmers who are young, new, and beginning; women; and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), and farmworkers.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Given the enormous challenges facing production agriculture – including a farm economy that has taken a downward spiral – it is imperative Congress act before year’s end to strengthen farm policy for America’s farmers. Farmers are struggling, and the decline in the farm economy is real. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Caff

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CAFFs mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

March started off as a rollercoaster ride when news broke that Farms Togetherour program delivering food sourced from local farmers to food insecure communities across Californiahad been paused indefinitely. Farms Together really gave us hope for the future of our farm. Department of Agriculture, signed in 2022.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Young farmer enjoys learning about agriculture and participating in family farm business.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

When his agriculture professors taught about conventional hog production, he would ask questions like, “What about letting these animals get outside a little bit?” These big universities, the agricultural departments are pretty much paid off by Big Agriculture,” says Roberts. According to the U.S.

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Organic Farming Research

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

From supporting cutting-edge research to presenting in webinars, his internship has been "a transformative journey, equipping me with the tools to revitalize my family farm and pursue a career advancing sustainable agriculture." The post Returning to My Roots appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation.

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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. We look forward to working with you to bring a bipartisan 2024 farm bill to fruition. Thank you for considering our request.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. We understand the risk.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled the most, despite selling something we all need—food. Why is running a small-scale farm more like an expensive hobby?

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