Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

I think the Farm Bill was written with us in mind in terms of how it’s presented to Congress, but when it comes to actual distribution and allocation, I think that the rules of the game change somehow. Do you know what it would mean to have access to a new tractor to do some of the work we need done in these fields?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

I think the Farm Bill was written with us in mind in terms of how it’s presented to Congress, but when it comes to actual distribution and allocation, I think that the rules of the game change somehow. Do you know what it would mean to have access to a new tractor to do some of the work we need done in these fields?

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Farming Farming Tractor Processing 57

Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

The so-called dual-use array, built by Boston-based BlueWave Solar, is operated by Navisun, a Massachusetts solar power producer that distributes the electricity to Central Maine Power’s energy grid. Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. 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.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Every economic study you’ve ever seen shows that the way to true prosperity in our country is a vibrant rural economy coupled with a strong small-business infrastructure, not a handful of major mega-corporations. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 29, 2024

But as the company’s co-founders made calls to farming contacts beyond their home of Forest City, about 60 miles southeast of Asheville, Beam and Green learned that potable water was much harder to come by elsewhere in the region, especially in rural areas with challenging logistics.

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Civil Eats

JULY 29, 2024

At the end of May, Samantha Figueroa sat at her desk counting the number of sites where Caroline County Public Schools would distribute free food to children this summer. That was especially true in rural areas, where families are spread out and transportation options can be limited. Behind her, color-coded meal plans filled the wall.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. In many regions, cooperatives also play a key role in ensuring food security by supporting local agricultural production and distribution networks.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Police and other first responders work the scene where 53 people died and multiple others suffered heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. Both died in the tractor trailer incident in San Antonio in June 2022. AP Photo/Eric Gay, File.

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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. Hawkins, Brown, and Hudson also hope to create a safe space for the BIPOC community, which, Hawkins notes, is often a rarity in rural areas.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A 2015 study published by researchers Maggie Douglas and John Tooker at Penn State University found that neonic seed treatments are now used on almost triple the area that had once been sprayed with insecticides, indicating their negative impacts could be more widely distributed. The majority of neonics are used in corn and soybeans.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We talk about the colleges it bankrolled, such as Duke University; how it paid for the educations of farmers’ children; how it fueled so many towns around rural North Carolina; and how the money tobacco generates is still key to the survival of our economy. I can weather a lot,” he said, getting into his tractor, visibly frustrated. “I

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