Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. Pete Larson on his farm. Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While these programs haven’t always been used to make farms climate resilient, they all have the potential to do so—and more funding and specific guardrails specified within the IRA would make that even more likely. Seth Watkins, a farmer from Clarinda, Iowa, was able to save his family farm with the help of conservation funding.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ethan Lane moderates panel of NCBA policy specialists The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s (NCBA) Executive Committee last week approved the organization’s policy priorities for the year which focus on advocating for the reauthorization of the Farm Bill, protecting cattle producers from federal regulatory overreach, and defending the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

MFA Incorporated sponsors the low-stress livestock-handling demonstration, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension specialist, who has been providing technical expertise to livestock producers in beef cattle nutrition, management and livestock handling techniques for over 25 years.

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

Poultry & Egg Association is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. The award recognizes exemplary environmental stewardship by family farmers engaged in poultry and egg production. We welcome his wealth of experience in, and knowledge of, American beef from farm to fork.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The campaign, Raised with Respect , centers on the common ground found between cattle producers and beef consumers, with a focus on animal welfare and beef sustainability. The cooperative has brought 84 family farms into its fold in 2023, demonstrating a robust response to the trend of farm loss and agricultural consolidation.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Livestock Publications Council (LPC) annually inducts one of its distinguished leaders into the Hall of Fame. Established in 2009, the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame honors the exceptional visionary men and women who have made lasting contributions to the cattle-feeding industry. 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Driven by supermarket price wars, retailers have been relentlessly pushing down the price that they offer to the farmers that supply them, who, when faced with this price pressure, have perceived the only option left to them is further intensification and enlargement of their farming operations and, in the case of livestock, animal numbers.

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Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification is an easy and effective way to pursue continued education in the cattle business. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) announced that nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. western rangelands.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. There were 141,733 fewer farms in the US in 2022 than in 2017, according to the Census of Agriculture. When it comes to sustainability, experts say insect farming uses less land and water, and it has fewer emissions.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Cindy, a cattle rancher, shares her experience: "The Farmbrite software is very user-friendly! Making Informed Decisions with Farmbrite Farmbrite doesn't just help you manage your finances; it empowers you with insights into your farm's production and productivity. Farmbrite makes my bookkeeping job simple!

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. As one gets closer to the Quimbayo Gutiérrez family farm, the landscape begins to change. Image by Antonio Paz. Image by Antonio Paz.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. The farm has changed a lot since his grandfather ran it and grew tomatoes and potatoes. The shells are used in cosmetics, as bedding for livestock and in biofuels.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Nevada Cattlemen’s Association New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau New Mexico Wine & Grape Growers Association New York Corn & Soybean Growers Association New York Farm Bureau New York Pork Producers Coop Inc New York State Division, IWLA Normex, Inc.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In the US, for example, organic milk producer Albert Straus works with a group of small family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties. We are especially passionate about livestock farming and cattle, as, in our experience, they are completely integral to the carbon cycle, building soil health and fertility.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Producing Grass-Fed and Finished Beef and Pork…Right on the Farm When Griebel came back to the farm, he asked himself, “how can we raise food and actually enhance the environment?” Everything we’ve raised will also die and be processed on the farm.” Protecting riparian zones is a critical priority at Redtail Farms.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

Ieuan Edwards is the youngest of three brothers who grew up on the family farm in the Conwy Valley in North Wales. Ieuan was 13-years-old when his father told him the farm wasn’t big enough for three boys and he would have to go into another business.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Most northern farmers have, I’m sure, that same affection for their land, but conservation and woodland management does cost money, fencing at £3 per yard; weeding and brashing are all labour-intensive occupations that cannot be supported economically on most of our farms. The profitability of livestock farming in the north is not high.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. When I was growing up, farming was a lot of smaller farms. Everybody had livestock of one sort or another,” said Gilbert.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

“We have a long, deep rooted connection with agriculture on both sides of the family farm,” explains Rod, whose own grandfather emigrated to southern Alberta from Holland in the 1920s. Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

San Antonio, Texas, will host CattleCon 2025 , the largest cattle industry event in the country, Feb. The award is given annually to recognize exemplary environmental stewardship by family farmers engaged in poultry and egg production. Thousands of cattlemen and women will gather to learn, conduct business, network and have fun.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas. Rollins spent summers working on her familys farm in Minnesota and participated in all levels of 4-H and FFA.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On December 1, a group of organizations including the National Farmers’ Union, the National Family Farm Coalition, and Farm Action sent a letter urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block the merger. You cannot make it work with 200 or 300 acres with the cost of inputs and retail prices,” he said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While it wouldn’t affect numbers from the past, the agency did recently commit to only buying red meat from cattle raised in the U.S. In May, dust from tilled farm fields caused a storm in Illinois that led to a 72-car crash in which seven people died. The storms can also destroy crops and harm livestock.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

Whether our crops come to harvest or our livestock make it to market is directly tied to the cycles of nature that we try our best to work within. That is the opening line of the recently released Fifth National Climate Assessment’s section on agriculture. As farmers, we are concerned. Each year, we lose 4.6

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I I stood a chance of losing my livestock,” Johnson wrote in a 1999 affidavit to receive part of a $2.3 Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s 9, 2023.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. “Medicaid and the [ACA] Marketplace are important sources of health insurance coverage in farm states for farmers and their families, rural residents, and others.” Farmers there primarily raise poultry and cattle and plant row crops. Despite that, voters there have been represented in Washington, D.C.

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