Western FarmPress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Profit Planners: A recurring problem with long lines at the elevator may mean its time to upgrade your storage to keep harvest moving.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 24, 2025

However, urban farming doesnt come without its challenges. Turning to creative urban farming ideas can help boost your production and profits. Construct vertical planters : South-facing fences and walls are a great place to add vertical planters to maximize growing space.

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Agric4profits

JULY 16, 2024

A concrete fish pond is a man-made structure designed specifically for raising fish, utilizing reinforced concrete for its construction. This material is renown

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Since then, we invite folks from there to our farm and give free admission to some of our educational seminars. A former deputy ambassador who was friendly with me asked if he could invite them to Polyface to see a non-chemical farm. I took them on a farm tour and they were completely engaged, interested, and gob-smacked.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether you're a seasoned farmer or rancher , an aspiring farmer looking to venture intofarming or ranching, or a farm business owner who wants to have a strong plan as they transition into another farm business, its helpful to know how to write and use a business plan. It also shows commitment, professionalism, and organization.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2024

As a ruminant farmer, am sure you will like to have an idea of the space you will need to embark on ruminant farming. Well, the space of land that will be needed depends on all that you want to construct on the farm land. All these will guide him/her in recommending the space needed for you.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 13, 2025

The hay ride farm tour went fairly normal until our last stop at the Millenium Feathernet when bird flu became the discussion topic and one of the attendees pushed back on my notion that U.S. Destruction takes no thoughtfulness; construction is hard. In farming, who builds soil? bird flu policy was dysfunctional.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Paul Sweetland brings a bucket-like object with him to work on a blueberry farm in Rockport — not to collect Maine’s hallmark fruit, but to protect his head. That’s because this farm is a little unusual: Looming over the narrow rows of wild blueberries are 8-foot-tall solar panels.

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Caff

MARCH 24, 2025

Proving that innovation thrives on a small scale, the winners of the 5th Annual Small Farm Innovation Challenge have introduced groundbreaking solutions to address critical challenges in small-scale agriculture. Ahiabor is no stranger to innovationhis Elbow-Operated Hand Wash Station also won the DIY category in 2022-23.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

WAC represents a large and diverse cross-section of the nations broad business community, including the construction, transportation, real estate, recreation, mining, manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, energy, wildlife conservation, and public health and safety sectors.

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We had a reader reach out to us concerning farmer’s constructive receipt of grain sales. I have several farm clients that will sell grain to an elevator, processor or other entity. I believe the taxpayer will have a constructive receipt issue if the IRS ever finds out how the sale was handled. Do you agree?”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Beginning with the start of FY2024 on October 1, funding for the federal government will – absent a continuing resolution (CR) – expire, as will the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill. A shutdown would also impact the timing of the 2023 Farm Bill Reauthorization.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 23, 2023

Wild Kid Acres in Edgewater, Maryland is a farm dedicated to responsible livestock and land stewardship. The farm is becoming a hub for agricultural education, local farm products, and shared technological resources. This observation led Martinez and his wife, Jessica Mendoza, to investigate biodynamic farming methods.

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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 It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The farmer, Brett Aiello of Reconnecting Roots Farm, wants to suppress the weeds around some newly planted fruit trees without disturbing the soil, and hes enlisted some help. Let’s prove that this works.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Meet the trailblazing women who are revolutionizing technology for small farms, one ingenious solution at a time. Three women are paving the way forward and helping to define what appropriate technology innovation means for the small farm. Rachel is a winner in the Do It Yourself (DIY) category of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When two young members of a farming community in North Carolina fell in love, there was nothing stopping them—except the generations-old blood feud between their families. This is the story that guests at one haunted farm are told when they visit during the Halloween season.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. New Jersey’s farms, just to the north, have not yet seen this degree of impact, and the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

In Montclair’s Third Ward is a tiny farm with big community value. In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents.

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Agric4profits

JULY 19, 2024

Earthen pond fish farming is an aquaculture practice that involves cultivating fish in natural or artificially constructed earthen ponds. These ponds are typica

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The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

As a young queer Latine and aspiring farmer of color, I have personally struggled with farm policy and how to make use of it for my own projects. For the 2023 farm bill to adequately support farmers, the voices of farmers of color must be amplified and implemented. However, the land I am farming on is not climate-stable.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. But over the past 25 years, peer-reviewed scientific studies show that biodynamic farming enhances soil quality and biodiversity. Um, okaaaay.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Thanks to committed donors like you, we made a lasting impact on farming families and the planet. These strategies will benefit farming communities by providing more effective tools and knowledge. The Belize program also partnered with several groups to extend its reach to more farming communities.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Not far from the town of Rockport, Maine, Paul Sweetland of Sweetland Farms, LLC has been tending wild blueberries since he was a young boy. On one field that he has been farming since the late 1990s, there is more than blueberries being produced. To do this, the construction area was divided into three sections.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? Accordingly, new policies are being designed which restrict future subsidies only to farming systems which deliver so-called ‘public goods’.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

GreenWave’s founder, Bren Smith, harvests kelp on his farm. Written by: Sarah Jordan May 16, 2023 Saltwater farming, also known as ocean farming or mariculture, is a revolutionary approach to sustainable agriculture that harnesses the power of the ocean to grow crops and produce seafood. Credit: Patagonia/Ron Gautreau.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

On September 19th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers held a field day at Vitis and Ovis farm in Capay Valley, CA. Gisèle Herren of Vitis and Ovis Farm alongside their flock of grazing ducks. Hans Herren showing attendees an on-farm device as he discussed their experience in making compost tea.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Now those bags were ready to be offloaded into a waiting truck and driven 100 miles southwest to their processor, Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF), near Portland, where many of the state’s kelp companies are based. seaweed industry.

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Kavya Organic Farm

MAY 21, 2023

Best organic farming companies in India:- Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd | Organic Farming Companies It is one of India’s top ten agriculture companies. It also practices alternative farming, crop diversification, and agricultural production. It was founded in 1988 with the establishment of a layer farm.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 28, 2024

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, and Technology Transfer program has funding to support research, development, and beta construction of five farm-scale deep winter greenhouses.

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Agribusiness Blog

JANUARY 30, 2022

With better commodity prices, many farmers will be building new shops, barns, and other farm buildings. However, when you construct an asset, this provision does not apply. Certain longer term assets (that typically do not apply to farm buildings) would have an extra year.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 1, 2024

When farmland is in the way of public construction projects like highways and utilities, the government may enact the power of eminent domain to take the land. Effects of Eminent Domain Land Values Eminent domain can have a wide variety of effects on farmland depending on the planned construction and the amount of land being taken.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As temperatures rise across most of the earth, farm workers and others who work outside like roofers, construction laborers, and lawn care employees are being increasingly affected by the high heat stress that occurs when high daytime temperatures and humidity take their toll on those workers, especially if they are doing hard manual labor.

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Food Tank

JULY 20, 2024

The organization uses an intersectional approach to address these challenges, teaching rural women about regenerative farming, agribusiness, and entrepreneurship. Ustawi Afrika also helps women gain independence by creating direct market access for farmed products.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Author and leadership advisor David Irvine discusses the strategies we can use to have constructive conversations about the livestock and environment issue. Listen to part two and part three of the Bridging Echo Chambers series for other ideas on how to engage in constructive conversations about the livestock and the environment issue.

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