Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere. The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. I felt the tractor tilting over,” Langford recalls. “I

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 90

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. A childhood photo from the family farm. We tended the land, crops, and animals together. My accent resembles theirs. My accent resembles theirs.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 118

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Caff

MARCH 9, 2023

Please sign on to our letter in support by Monday March 13 at 10am ADD YOUR NAME HERE Background While California leads the nation in agricultural production, the number of family farms decreases with each agricultural census as farmers face a myriad of pressures and challenges including increased costs, drought, and corporate consolidation.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52