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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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Barriers to owning, operating, and modernizing farmland date back over a century. percent today.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Corn and soybeans dominate the Hawkeye State’s rural landscapes. You saw people coming back, to buy land and buy houses, and wanting to live in more rural communities and have that quality of life and sense of connection and sense of community,” said Giselle Bruskewitz of Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development.

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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. We need something that can really facilitate the whole process,” said Martin Bey.

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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. At the same time, it jeopardizes our country’s food security and threatens the vitality of our urban and rural communities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation.

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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). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through this film, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) advocates for increased investment in rural communities who are under constant threat from the climate crisis. As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. As research and reporting began to call significant attention to the company’s negative effects on rural economies and the environment , Harold Lee Scott, Jr.,

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. 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.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits. You can check out a flyer about Nettie here.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

For Topper, the issue is about the way the installation has disrupted the peace of her rural life. Stottler, who grew up in rural Minnesota, understands how the view of a solar farm is not what residents desire. It has to be in Empire’s territory, [and] it has to be on their distribution lines,” said Stottler.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

In opening remarks, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) , Chair of the subcommittee, and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) , Chairwoman of the full committee, mentioned the rising consolidation and price of farmland, asserting that careless increases to commodity programs would exacerbate these issues. “

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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

JULY 21, 2023

Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The cycle of creating local jobs, wealth, and health has meaningful implications for both surrounding urban and rural areas. 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.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

These technologies provide high-resolution images of farmland, allowing farmers to detect stress factors such as nutrient deficiencies, waterlogging, pest infestations, or disease outbreaks before they become widespread.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Parked beneath a thicket of tall trees and surrounded by miles of farmland, the trailer was where two cousins, Vicente Gomez Hernandez and Humberto Feliciano Gomez, were meant to spend the summer of 2021. They had traveled there from their Mixteco Indigenous community in San Juan Mixtepec, a rural town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 5, 2024

In opening remarks, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) , Chair of the subcommittee, and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) , Chairwoman of the full committee, mentioned the rising consolidation and price of farmland, asserting that careless increases to commodity programs would exacerbate these issues. “

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I He points out how if the cattle are concentrated in one spot, ranchers can create a more efficient distribution of nutrients across the landscape. His first parish was located in a small agricultural community, which put him back in touch with his childhood dream. “I

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. Paul region.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Tracing Big Ag control from seed to supermarket We can trace corporate power through every stage of food production and distribution, identifying some of the largest and most problematic corporate actors—think of them as the Monsantos of today—along the way.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains. the US Virgin Islands, and Guam—returned to pre-pandemic SNAP payment levels.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s running a $5 million project that will convert manure from a woman-owned cattle feedlot into organic fertilizer and distribute it to BIPOC and other underserved farmers in urban and high poverty areas in Ohio and southeast Michigan. The situation at Central State University looks very different.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2023

While this Center will provide services for a wide range of food and farm businesses in the region, they will dedicate specific attention to serving the predominantly rural Colonias communities to advance business development for socially disadvantaged producers in these often underserved areas.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Despite the beauty of the surrounding farmland, food was often scarce. Appalachia , a mountainous region spanning 13 states in the eastern United States, stretches from southern New York to northern Mississippi and is often associated with rural poverty, rugged landscapes, and rich cultural traditions.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The rest is distributed to nearby urban and suburban areas in Yolo and Sacramento counties through food programs and community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription boxes—25 percent of it for free. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. That’s the only way we survived.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The lines would start just south of Sunbury at a sprawling substation and then traverse a stretch of farming tracts and country homes within a rural township until they reached two substations northeast of New Albany. But in Central Ohio, a farmer recently sold 227 acres of farmland to Microsoft for $29 million. Who could say no?

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Civil Eats

JULY 22, 2024

As a result, they’ve fought for payment caps within the programs as a way to limit spending and distribute funds more fairly. But rural areas are also being hollowed out as farms disappear or get bigger , which could one day shift power away from those farm states. Today, it’s nearly all Republicans.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2025

A string of agricultural policy decisions from the White House has sparked confusion and heightened financial uncertainty for farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners who rely on government contracts as a source of income. billion for farmland conservation programs. This caused confusion on the future of nearly $19.5

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Over the past four years, the Biden administrations priorities have centered on spending billions of dollars on food and farm infrastructure, paying farmers to implement climate-smart practices, finalizing new regulations related to the environment , labor, food safety , and nutrition, and distributing more dollars to food insecure families.

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