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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. In fact, now I am a regenerative farmer.”

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

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 Many of Cream Co.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

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.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. The potential to make meat, only without the ranch, has felt like a blow to generational farmers like Holley.

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Letter on on FY24 Ag Appropriation’s Bill Amendments

NASDA

Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network – $10 million, full funding Funding will continue efforts to scale assistance programs and create training and partnerships to serve rural Americans—60% of whom live in areas with mental health professional shortages.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

The Center addresses critical issues like food equity, animal agriculture, food waste, and the intersection of diets and climate resilience. Niman Ranch Next Generation Foundation , United States The Niman Ranch Next Generation Foundation awards scholarships and grants to future sustainable farmers and agriculture leaders.

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What You Need to Know About Trump’s Picks to Lead USDA and EPA

Civil Eats

While Kennedy has pledged to end the use of certain pesticides and promotes organic and regenerative agriculture, Rollins is seen as a supporter of the kind of conventional, chemical-based agriculture he wants to transform. Kennedy, Jr., nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

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