Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more people. All of us, in some way, are impacted by industrial animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 24, 2024

Despite the name, the Farm Bill doesn’t only affect farmers. If you eat food, the Farm Bill impacts you. It has huge implications for food production, nutrition assistance, animal welfare, the environment, trade and much more. Instead, it extended the Farm Bill by a year to give itself more time.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kody McCleary wants more consumers to understand the work that goes into sustainable and humane pig farming. Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. The quality of the animal is just better.”

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. She knew about the putrid smell of animal waste, she knew it wasn’t safe to drink the local water. The thing that Kendra Kimbirauskas hadn’t expected were the trucks.

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NASDA

JANUARY 31, 2024

She helped plan and execute the policy team’s first-ever “NASDA 101” briefing for Capitol Hill staff, compiled and facilitated a nationwide survey on African Swine Fever preparedness, and continues her engagement with lawmakers to discuss farm bill priorities.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Steven and Alaina Imhoff knew they wanted to expand their hog farming at Triple Creek Farms in southeast Iowa. Niman farmers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For the past 15 years, we have led the charge in creating robust conversations around food and farming, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories more accessible to a mainstream audience. In that time, our stories have had significant impact and reach, thanks in part to support from our readers and donors.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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The Farmers Daughter USA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the mid-2010s, conversations about antibiotic use in animal agriculture was coming under greater scrutiny. Farms sometimes used antibiotics as part of their production practices, including to grow bigger birds. Sanderson Farms was a notable exception.) The FDA’s efforts, however, came a little too late.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 18, 2023

Zane Wanjura ’24 stays true to his roots while pursuing his passion Students in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science can choose from a wide variety of career paths across multiple disciplines in animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. She knew about the putrid smell of animal waste, she knew it wasn’t safe to drink the local water. The thing that Kendra Kimbirauskas hadn’t expected were the trucks.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV. You can read Food Tank’s coverage of the roadmap, which was announced last year, here. FoodDive : Food system transformation on the menu at COP28 III.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 11, 2024

Researchers concluded that “there is exceptionally strong evidence for a link between low animal welfare levels and high zoonotic risks, exacerbated by animal crowding, low genetic diversity, compromised hygiene, and high animal stress levels which compromise immune systems.”

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

States are working diligently to ensure farmers and farmworkers have access to PPE and other resources to implement or improve robust biosecurity protocols on their farms. Sincerely, Blayne Arthur President, NASDA Secretary Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry Charles Hatcher, D.V.M.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The dairy checkoff has launched the Dairy Conservation Navigator , an online resource hub designed to provide farm advisors, stakeholders and conservation professionals with science-based information on sustainable farming practices and technologies. poultry industrys on-farm antibiotic use.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

farms as of Jan. Department of Agricultures National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The United States Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the resumption of cattle and bison imports from Mexico. There were 86.7 million head of cattle and calves on U.S.

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ATTRA

JULY 29, 2024

An international team of scientists concluded that when social, economic, and political factors are considered, intensive animal agriculture could contribute to the risk of infectious diseases developing.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Farmer leaders in stewardship, sustainability and workforce best practices, along with a top FARM Program evaluator, were recognized at the fourth annual FARM Excellence Awards presentation held at National Milk Producers Federation ’s annual meeting.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Passage of the bill will also help each state address its needs for public practice veterinarians (food safety, public health, epidemiology, pathology, molecular diagnostics, virology, toxicology, immunology, bacteriology, serology, foreign animal disease preparedness, and livestock infectious diseases).

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Advanced Agrilytics , a leading agricultural solutions provider, announced that its Board of Directors appointed Kenny Avery as the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual emissions inventory report showed that emissions from the agricultural sector dropped by nearly 2 percent, falling from 10.6 In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2023. Additional topics covered water sanitation, on-farm food safety testing, antimicrobial stewardship, biosecurity audits and more. Advancing Animal Agriculture.”

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

Now in its 25th year, Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States who all adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Ron Mardesen, Niman farmer for more than 21 years, used to stay up at night worrying about losing his farm. Army veteran.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. I was just working [on the farm] all the time and loved it.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

A few corporations benefit and now control our food production to the detriment of small and medium-sized farmers, especially Black farmers who lost the majority of their land and wealth as farms consolidated. Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The board of the National Institute of Animal Agriculture recently approved forming a new Council: the Animal Disease Issues & Emergency Management Council. This year’s theme was “Scaling Collective Impact: Collaborating to Accelerate Agricultural Sustainability.” poultry industry’s on-farm antibiotic use.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5% of on-farm costs, with animal feed closely following at 15.5%. Denali’s depackaging process enabled farmers to receive fertilizer and/or animal feed at no cost, saving them a minimum of $100 per acre.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

” During a panel at the convention, Lane agreed that the opportunity exists to get a farm bill through in the lame duck session. “There’s been discussion for months about how to tackle the tax package that’s expiring. ” The last minute introduction Monday by Sen.

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

farms and ranches. The bipartisan bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to confirm a regulatory path for non-nutritive animal food ingredients that act in the animal’s gut to provide production benefits, address human food safety concerns and affect the byproducts from digestion from the animal.

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