Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Market Trends : Analyzing general market data helps farmers select crops that will yield the best pricing, making their planting more strategic and profitable. The superior wine quality led this vineyard to elevate its market standing with award-winning products. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Farm Forward recently published a major investigative report detailing systematic animal suffering and consumer fraud at Alexandre Family Farm—a leading large-scale organic dairy company with “well over 9,000 head of cattle,” according to co-owner Blake Alexandre—whose products are covered in certification labels.

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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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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Dairy checkoff initiatives of 2024 successfully increased dairy access in schools, expanded market share for U.S. billion RAPP program aimed at developing new export markets for U.S. dairy products domestically and internationally and supported the industrys longstanding commitment to sustainability on behalf of U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Recently, they’ve started selling their products virtually, on a consolidated market site. Initially, the plan was to rotate other responsibilities such as marketing and social media among the participating farms. The self-proclaimed Northeastern Online Farmers’ Market offers local products from more than 25 farms.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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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 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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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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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. Farm Hounds jerky. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much?

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business. After all, they have simply been following the money!

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 26, 2023

READ MORE Colorado Rancher Finds Financial Flexibility with $19.1MM Debt Consolidation AgAmerica's interest-only loan consolidation provides a solution for a Colorado cattle rancher, addressing the challenge of balancing debt structures and investment payouts, while increasing working capital for future investments and operational needs.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

My parents both worked full-time off the farm. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. And when I was in high school, around 2009, I started a community garden on our farm called “Project: Plant a Seed.” A childhood photo from the family farm.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A daytime sleep schedule can curb quality time spent with loved ones, as well as limit when wares can be sold or traded in local markets. Its also impacting their ability to support themselves and their families through a generations-old trade. But what the family is already doing is waking up at 5 a.m. Im very proud of that.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

San Antonio, Texas, will host CattleCon 2025 , the largest cattle industry event in the country, Feb. 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.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. 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.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When his father, Randy, equipped his combine with a yield monitor in the early 1990s, teenage Ryan thought it was a huge step forward for the family farm. The Britts now farm 5,000 acres, raising cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hay in Randolph, Chariton and Macon counties.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

The IGC discusses current and prospective world grain market developments, and monitors changes in national grain policies and their market implications. IGC  IGC provides critical grain and oilseed market information and analysis to its members, promoting transparency and stability in international trade. beef cattle division.

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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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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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Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification is an easy and effective way to pursue continued education in the cattle business. Beyond speed, Gen Z indicates a future need for advanced meal prep, global flavors and minimal cleanup,” according to new research presented at Chicken Marketing Summit 2024.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

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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. Teresa & Charlie: Farming using a more sustainable approach can definitely support positive outcomes for the community. To learn more about Langford Farm, visit langfordfarmorganic.co.uk.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Tom Williams, the Minister of Agriculture, said the farmers will be able to plan ahead with certain knowledge of market and price. Yet, no national government in the western world leaves its farming industry to survive or fall by strict market forces, and it would be unrealistic and undesirable that UK agriculture should be left to do so.

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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. Fertilizer is one of the most consolidated industries in agriculture; today, four companies control 75 percent of the fertilizer market.

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Tripician projects that Grass Fed Foods will buy 2,500 head of cattle from the ranch in 2024, 4,500 in 2025, and 7,000 in 2026.

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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. Guilbeault ventured to Silicon Valley to examine veganism’s transformation from a social movement to a market-based model, and inside the U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 29, 2024

One of the main bottlenecks for the farm bill has been disagreements over crop insurance —and how much funding should be allocated toward it. Opponents of increased crop insurance have long maintained that it drains taxpayers while benefiting large corporations and leaving more diversified family farm operations with nothing.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

And in the past 10 years, the market share of the four largest supermarket chains has increased significantly. 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.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“If farmers have more markets, then they’ll have greater competition for what they’re growing and raising and get a fairer price,” Vilsack stressed. “If Theo Scholze of Scholze Family Farms in Humbird is among those who will benefit from the Crescent Meats expansion. Endvick also serves as the communications director for WFU.

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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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The Equation

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Such programs aimed to ensure that minority farmers received the financial assistance and technical support for land management and conservation practices, risk management, help finding local markets, and other educational resources they needed. percent of the farms, while the market share of their agricultural products sold is 0.4

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Such programs aimed to ensure that minority farmers received the financial assistance and technical support for land management and conservation practices, risk management, help finding local markets, and other educational resources they needed. percent of the farms, while the market share of their agricultural products sold is 0.4

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The USDA spent the most money—6 percent of its total purchases, or $270 million—on food from Cargill, which is the country’s largest private company and has long been accused of creating unfair markets for farmers and perpetuating deforestation in South America.

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