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

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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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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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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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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Farmbrite, a powerful farm and ranch accounting software, is designed to help agricultural businesses streamline their financial processes and gain valuable insights into their operations, ultimately increasing profitability. Cindy, a cattle rancher, shares her experience: "The Farmbrite software is very user-friendly!

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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. Photography courtesy of Burroughs Family Farms. And guess what it replaces?

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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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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. C4 plants undergo photosynthetic process to fix carbon in the plants).

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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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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress. Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Griebel and Dana started out in their first year, experimenting with 12 head of cattle, and nearly decade later, they’re raising 70 head and processing the meat right on the farm. Everything we’ve raised will also die and be processed on the farm.” Griebel’s father used to have a small butcher shop on the farm.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S. used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

Marianne finishes her tour in North Wales, with a visit to Master Butcher, Ieuan Edwards, who runs a meat processing business with an award-winning shop and deli in the town of Conwy. Ieuan Edwards is the youngest of three brothers who grew up on the family farm in the Conwy Valley in North Wales.

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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. They also owned approximately 340,000 acres of Montana land with cattle, elk, and a trout stream until they sold it to Rupert Murdoch in 2021.

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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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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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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Worse still, many of them have invested large amounts of money in huge buildings to house factory farmed animals, and they are financially exposed with no alternative deployment for the infrastructure they have borrowed on. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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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 bus will offer fresh, local, healthy food to the public, including many families experiencing food insecurity, at pay-what-you-can prices. Smithfield’s donation brings Ripe for Revival’s fleet up to a total of five buses.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The announcement represents the next step toward conducting complete nationwide surveillance under the NMTS and continues to build on measures taken by USDA and its federal and state partners since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle was first detected in March 2024.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Ambassador Susan Rice, White House Domestic Policy Advisor, were in the Chippewa Valley Thursday promoting investments in regional meat processing. million MPPEP grant to offset costs for an expansion that will nearly triple the square footage of the facility and double processing capacity.

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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. But even with products that involve lower upfront costs, he’s moved away from grocery sales.

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Agwired

MARCH 10, 2025

While a biosecurity manager plays a key role in creating and maintaining biosecurity plans, everyone on a cattle operation has a part to play in protecting cattle health. Poultry & Egg Association s (USPOULTRY) Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award during the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo in Atlanta.

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Agwired

MARCH 3, 2025

Register for the next National Cattlemen’s Beef Association webinar, Delivering Excellence with Every Cattle Moo-vement , on Wednesday, March 5th 6:00 – 7:00 CDT. A team of researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University is developing a way to tie that rate to cattle health.

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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. And with the farm bill process punted to next year and still no end in sight on the many spending bills Congress plans to pass, their future remains uncertain.

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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 Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. It was like history repeating itself.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns. He told me multiple times that our family farm, when he was growing up, supported six families.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Agriculture was the first industry mentioned, and the ways in which consolidation was driving the loss of small family farms became one of Vilsacks most-cited talking points throughout the administration. But during a press conference Monday, Vilsack defended the process. Under his tenure, the U.S.

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