Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

International Trade Commission to consider the impacts that tariffs on Moroccan shipments of fertilizers are having on family farms. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with 57 agriculture organizations including 22 state corn grower groups, urged the U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 23, 2023

While taking care of trash removal and house construction, Martinez and his family “jumped right into goats” for passively clearing invasive plants from the land. A two-story community barn is currently under construction at Wild Kid Acres. He made use of wood chips, an inexpensive organic resource readily available in the area.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He invited me to spend the summer in New York City in 1968 working construction. Yes, I’m currently actively involved in farming, but in defined ways. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Tobacco built kingdoms and titans of industry, the story goes; tobacco is freedom, and in case you didn’t realize that, here in Durham sits a 250-pound replica of the Liberty Bell constructed of pressed tobacco leaves, a twin of the bell given by the R.J. So, you know, it got to a point where we had to go out.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

She says she sees this definition as a starting point, as someplace from which to constructively move forward. Bryce Lundberg is vice president of agriculture at Lundberg Family Farms , a fourth-generation organic rice and quinoa company. Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms.

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