Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

The impact of the farm labor shortage on U.S. agriculture and farm financing. Paid farm labor accounts for 41 percent of all farm workers in the U.S. But the farm labor workforce pool is shrinking , and has been for decades. Why is the Farm Labor Workforce Shrinking? Did you know? farmer is 58.1

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly Arable grower Matthew Williams farms 1,100ha of rented or contract-farmed land – a situation that has brought profitability, sustainability and input cost control into sharp focus. Shropshire-based Transition Farmer Matthew is a first generation, younger farmer who developed a passion for agriculture at school.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly The use of share farming agreements could rise as tighter gross margins and further cuts to direct subsidies in England make alternative arrangements such as contract farming less relevant.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

That’s how a farmer who used to work for Perdue described his chicken house—a sight so upsetting that it led him to transition out of this kind of work, often referred to as “factory farming.” There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.”

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly The use of share farming agreements could rise as tighter gross margins and further cuts to direct subsidies in England make alternative arrangements such as contract farming less relevant.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

In part one and part two of our series on transitioning out of factory farming, we heard from both farmers who have made or are making the transition, as well as the organizations that support producers through this process. Have an open mind and do a little bit of research to see what’s out there because people are farming differently.

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