Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Given the challenges in an industry dominated by factory farms, such as slim profit margins and little control over pricing and markets, between 52 percent and 79 percent of small family farms are at high financial risk. We only have 45 acres, which is a really small farm around here,” says Larson.

Farming 122

Farming Farming Acre Marketing 122

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. DY: How do you cultivate your connection to the land you live on now, in urban Memphis?

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Technological advances to ease the labor side of agriculture were few and far between, until the Industrial Revolution and large-scale implementation of machinery in farm operations. Department of Agriculture, 98% of all farms in the U.S. are family farms, with nearly 90% of those considered small family farms.

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Farming Farming Processing Technology 40

Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Awards will be bestowed during the conclusion of the California Small Farm Conference on February 28, a free event featuring keynote speaker, Nikki Silvestri. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr. started farming as a form of self-transformation and restoration.

Food 52

Food Farming Farming Ecology 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., In 2014, the amount of land devoted to tobacco cultivation, as a portion of all U.S. He told me multiple times that our family farm, when he was growing up, supported six families.

Farming 85

Farming Farming Acre Crop 85