Ecology Family Farming Grain 
Food Tank
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. These markets are large and important to local producers.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs.
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RR2CS
APRIL 18, 2022
In 1909, he named the land “Valley View Ranch” — a name that Rod and Beth, along with their children, who represent the next generation of farmers on the family ranch, have preserved and continued to date. “We Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 28, 2024
NSAC encourages Congress to adopt this change in a final farm bill, as well as similar climate-targeting language for all major conservation programs. NSAC calls on the House and Senate to include the bipartisan COWS Act provisions in a final farm bill.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 24, 2024
GRAIN , International GRAIN partners with small-scale farmers and social movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to promote community-driven, biodiversity-focused food systems. They focus on improving livelihoods through the promotion of ecological land-use management practices and empowering farming communities.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
In the early 19th century, hay and grain would have still been hand cut by an army of people using scythes. It’s no wonder that many farmers do not want their kids to take over the family farm, encouraging them to go to university and get a ‘real job’. Machines replaced humans in the countryside a long time ago.
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