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

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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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

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

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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The Farmers Daughter USA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Perdue’s latest marketing campaign isn’t subtle. 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.)

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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. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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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. The quality of meat, you can taste it…you can tell when an animal has been raised on bedding and dirt versus concrete.”

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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

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. Livestock auction barns and markets, as a result of the federal order, have faced an undue burden and a significant financial loss due to a decrease in sales.

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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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. Despite his father’s advice, Wahl started farming after graduation and now raises about 1,000 sheep with his family in western Oregon. “I

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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

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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But a small group of policymakers are putting this much-needed economic opportunity at risk through the misguided Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act (S.2019 California’s Prop 12, and Massachusetts’ similar Question 3, requires that fresh pork sold into the state be raised on farms not using gestation crates. 2019 and H.R.4417),

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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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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 award annually honors a person from outside the livestock communications field for actions that produce a positive change in livestock production and marketing. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2023.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rising egg prices and increased volatility in the market are largely attributable to supply challenges brought on by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. poultry farms in 2022, nearly 100 million table egg laying hens have been affected. Since the current outbreak began impacting U.S. Mexico and CanadaU.S. billion and $1.14

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Flat, sprawling farm fields fill the screen. That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” It won’t be easy.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Dairy checkoff initiatives of 2024 successfully increased dairy access in schools, expanded market share for U.S. Department of Agricultures Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP). billion RAPP program aimed at developing new export markets for U.S. food and agricultural products.

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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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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. More than 900 farmer and industry leaders recently gathered at the Sustainable Agriculture Summit held Dec. poultry industry’s on-farm antibiotic use.

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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. In exchange, the farmers receive a guaranteed market for their products and an invaluable support system. Army veteran.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 22, 2024

The title of Maisie Ganzler’s new book, You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company , was born out of an experience Ganzler had while operating as chief strategy and brand officer at Bon App é tit Management Company. As a farmer in St.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With the launch of a new program, Angus farmers and ranchers have the option to market their beef directly to consumers as CAB product. Livestock Marketing Association members have a front-row seat to a disturbing trend: the continued loss of livestock producers across the U.S.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They also discussed other issues facing farmers, including the importance of disaster relief, expanding markets, reducing input costs, and decreasing regulation. Department of Agriculture Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities award. in March 2025. Funding for the program comes from the U.S. in his new partnership role.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Dana Cronin March 3, 2023 Last year’s drought took a severe toll on Zack Rendel’s farm. Back then, everybody had a farm.

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Agwired

JANUARY 17, 2024

Rabobank’s RaboResearch F&A group is a global team of more than 80 analysts who monitor and evaluate global market events that affect food and agriculture worldwide. Eric Gibson joins the team as a Farm Inputs & Crop Production Sustainability Analystwith experience to effectively to build robust relationships with U.S.

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Agwired

AUGUST 26, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will begin accepting nominations for the fourth Cohort of the Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders. Members of the program work together on applied-learning, small-group capstone projects, which will incorporate topics of interest in animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal agriculture for decades, but in 2008 when one dairy operation tried moving onto the Yakima Indian Reservation, the community balked at the proposition. Agriculture has become one of the most consolidated industries in the country.

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Agwired

MARCH 4, 2024

Farmers throughout the Upper Midwest will have an opportunity to participate in a multi-year climate-smart sustainability program that uses data to inform new farming practices and potentially generate added value for the food the farms produce. This year’s program focused on Super Bowl host market Las Vegas and throughout Nevada.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2025

farms, down slightly from March 2024 and down one percent from Dec. Department of Agricultures National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). milk composition is poised to continue as genetic gains and market incentives will drive butterfat and protein production higher for the foreseeable future. 1, there were 74.5

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

dairy products remains murky due to export market uncertainties, any potential growth opportunities may be stymied by an inability to expand U.S. American Farm Bureau Federation economists analyzed the USDA inventory report in the latest Market Intel. While the global demand outlook for U.S. milk production. There were 87.2

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Agwired

JUNE 24, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) has released the white paper from the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium – Thriving in a Changing Landscape. It will also include a proprietary technology platform to help farmers capture their on-farm data. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Smithfield Foods has donated $100,000 to fund a mobile food retail market that will provide fresh food in food deserts throughout southeastern North Carolina. The donation to Ripe for Revival , a nonprofit founded to address food insecurity in North Carolina, was used to purchase a bus that has been transformed into a mobile food market.

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