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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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

AMPI) Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Austin Chapter 10 IWLA BASF Corporation Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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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. The origin of the word ‘manufacture’ implies ‘made by hand’.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Another example: The International Tobacco Growers Association, set up and run by cigarette manufacturers, lobbied in Indonesia in 2010 against a ban on additives in tobacco manufacturing, claiming that it would harm the livelihood of farmers. Tobacco manufacturing jobs—de-stemming leaves, making cigarettes—accounted for only 1.6

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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., Naoki Nitta The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them By Karla T.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

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

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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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