National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

In addition, over the last decade, farmland prices have doubled nationwide and risen far higher in areas with pressure due to real estate development or commodity prices. This round of awards is the first-time funds have been distributed through the LCM program. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation , farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers and foreign buyers , pollution and animal welfare issues , as well as soil erosion and the poor treatment of migrant workers.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2020, Williams learned that King County was looking to lease and reactivate fallow farmland in the Sammamish River Valley. By partnering with local food banks, Black-led mutual aid networks and other community groups, the collective distributes the food it grows to those most in need. percent Black. In King County, it’s $35,000.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In both cases, its the initial conversion of undisturbed land to farmland that has the biggest impact. If its coming to the Delta, its going to be existing farmland switching from one crop to another, not new land being converted.

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A targeted outreach effort at the state level could ensure more equitable resource distribution. In the 2022 Agricultural Census, new and beginning farmers managed 22% of US farmland. In the 2022 Agricultural Census, socially disadvantaged producers managed 11% of US farmland.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

In Part One, Feedgood, a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, outlines a public framework and presents principles and practices for food systems planning. And in Part Two, she shows readers the policies and programs that support farming systems, sustain agriculture, and bolster community food security.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Route 1 will hire three to five individuals to work the freight farm and will then distribute the food grown to local communities. An example of how harvest may look like at a freight farm.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John accepted a development role at the farm four years ago, her insight, combined with the need to respond to food insecurity during the pandemic, led to a dramatic shift in the distribution of the farm’s harvest. Despite the new distribution strategy, St.

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The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

These challenges are exacerbated by farmland loss due to the purchasing and development of agricultural land by non-farmers, with Black and Indigenous communities having a disproportionately high rate of farmland loss. Finding affordable land to work was challenging enough without the addition of working climate-unstable land.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

With more than 40 percent of American farmland projected to change ownership by 2035, the next farm bill will determine who has access to farmland and technical support—and, therefore how resilient, just, and inclusive the farming landscape is.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

The Food Bank works with almost 700 community-based nonprofit partners to distribute more than 9 million meals across metro Atlanta and north Georgia every month. Open Hand Atlanta Open Hand Atlanta distributes healthy meals to people in need, with the vision of eliminating diet-related chronic illnesses.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Barriers to owning, operating, and modernizing farmland date back over a century. In July, the USDA announced it had distributed about $2 billion to more than 40,000 farmers who endured past discrimination. In 1910, Black farmers were 14 percent of the U.S. farming population but account for only 1.4 percent today.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

As the self-sufficient urban farming movement grows, tools such as FarmLink are emerging to aid young farmers of color through the complex system of accessing and maintaining farmland. In the United States, increasing urban sprawl and rapid commercial development continue to consume farmland: From 2020 to 2021, the country lost 1.3

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Come autumn harvest after a short growing season of about 58 days, Sakari donates most of the yield to regional tribes with distribution assistance from state agencies. It premiered in April and has since become a film festival darling; Schreiner is hopeful it will get streaming distribution soon in order to reach a wider audience.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is launching a new program to help Iowa landowners incorporate soil health principles into their farmland. The program will distribute landowners into learning cohorts based on their awareness, needs, and perceived motivations and barriers to conservation practice adoption.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

The testimonies presented during the hearing underscored the profound economic pressures and mental health strains experienced by farmers nationwide, which directly impact their ability to secure and maintain farmland. 3955) would provide essential funding for programs aimed at expanding access to affordable farmland for young farmers.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Porter’s farm faces another common challenge: he doesn’t own his farmland. His organization sources inventory from more than 30 growers across the state before the team distributes the boxes to schools, food pantries, hospitals, and senior centers with limited access to fresh foods. in June 2024.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). However, when you divide a large number (i.e.,

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Caff

MARCH 23, 2021

Agricultural Solutions to the Climate Crisis ($1.135 billion) — Sustainable agricultural solutions to slow the impacts of climate change and reduce pollution; strategies that reduce wildfire risk and invest in farmland conservation to keep our farms viable and resilient; compost infrastructure to build healthy soils; groundwater sustainability.

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Agribusiness Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Distributions from the trust to the spouse can then be shared with donor spouse. Therefore, the best assets to place into the SLAT would be assets that may not need much of a step-up such as farmland that will remain in the family for many generations. This removes the ex-spouse from the trust at that time.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2022

Billionaires saying governments should only let people eat synthetic beef while buying up massive tracts of farmland. The event starts with an intensive rebuilding local food distribution class Friday morning. “He who controls the food controls the people.” Vaccines in salads. Medical passports to buy your weekly pork and produce.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 to resolve lawsuits associated with the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses, Arthur accepted a buyout, distributed by the Golden LEAF Foundation, to help him transition away from the crop. He used the money to pay off the farm loans he had with the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Instead, they face “huge deficits” in aggregation, distribution and manufacturing. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Still, many smaller farmers such as Paddock are concerned.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4 million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

The creation and distribution of GE crops has typically been controlled by these same corporations, which have a long track record of disregarding the environmental and human health impacts of their products, disenfranchising family-scale farmers, obfuscating the truth, and obstructing regulations. And BASF sells a 2.0

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the neighboring country of Burkina Faso, the Association Minim Sông Pânga (AMSP), with 5,000 members, leads efforts to advance sorghum breeding research to best serve farmland in their region. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans account for 75 percent of the Midwests’s farmland acres. Beyond the economics, those growing, producing and distributing locally grown food believe in what they’re doing, Bruskewitz said. “At In 1998, James Nisly of Kalona, Iowa, in Washington County southwest of Iowa City, started Organic Greens, LLC.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. La Cosecha showcases her growth into becoming a key part of her community’s food distribution network.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Once it reaches the vast river system of the Mississippi, it can be milled and distributed to farms as far away as North Dakota. Once you get a piece of farmland, the very first thing you do is get your pH right,” says Prevost. However, because local olivine sources don’t exist, EION must import the olivine by ship from Norway.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid. It is a place to not only share food, but other skills such as sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland. More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 26, 2023

The group has been distributing food for over a decade, but this is a big crowd, even by their standards. Eloy Ortiz, a board member with the Center for Farmworker Families, helps out at a food distribution event in Watsonville, California, in January 2023. million and 1.9

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