Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has multiple agencies that provide financial and/or technical assistance to help farmers, ranchers and rural landowners recover from natural disasters, such as wildfires. Listed are USDA agencies and an overview of applicable programs. Funding for some programs are contingent on the on the annual enactment of Congressional appropriations legislation.
Farm QA
JUNE 2, 2022
See how new capabilities help improve crop scouting processes, recommendation writing, satellite imagery, soil tests, record keeping, grower communications, and more.
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Agribusiness Blog
JUNE 2, 2022
The Emergency Relief Program (ERP) has a payment limit of $125,000. However, if more than 75% of your adjusted gross income (AGI) is from farming, then you qualify for an extra $125,000 payment. Speciality crop farmers would qualify for up to $900,000 per producer. However, what is farming AGI. Technically it is not gross income from farming. It is the net income generated by the farm compared to all of your other sources of income that is reported on your tax return.
iFarm
JUNE 1, 2022
Over the last few months, I’ve been working with a farmer on her business plan for building out an on-farm processing facility. She wants to take her heritage breed pigs and create custom, value-added charcuterie. It’s a big investment of time and money; and there’s a lot of uncertainty. As we wrapped up our work, the farmer asked me, “Do you think this will work?
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
In this 7 minute overview, you will learn about basic concepts to get your farm prepared for wildfire season. The post Quick Intro to On-Farm Fire Preparedness appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
In this two part photo blog series, Farmer Campus talked with farm manager David Cooper to hear his wildfire story and get a glimpse into the realities of farming with wildfire and how to recover. The post Counting the Losses: Tallying the True Costs of Wildfire for Farmers appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
As part of its research effort to study and understand the vulnerabilities of buildings subjected to wildfire exposures, IBHS developed the capability of simulating ember exposures on building components and assemblies. These videos show the results of their simulations. The post Building Vulnerability to Ember Exposure appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
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Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
Spreadwing Farm, located in the Capay Valley, utilizes compost in their vegetable crops to improve the quality of the soil and provide plant available nutrients. Learn more about the benefits, tradeoffs, and challenges Liz Schroeder of Spreadwing Farm has seen with compost application. Read the case study here. The post Spreadwing Farm: Compost on a Diversified Small Farm appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Agribusiness Blog
JUNE 1, 2022
One of the hardest succession planning issues in transferring property from the current generation to the next generation is gifting property with debt. Generally a gift of property does not create any income tax. The income tax cost basis of the property will carry over to the person receiving the gift. However, if the transfer of property has no cost basis and their is debt that is transferred with property then income tax will be due.
Caff
JUNE 1, 2022
The below report, produced by Clean Water Action, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), Civic Well, UCANR, and the Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability, reveals that the most consequential groundwater policy in California history has so far failed to include small and underrepresented farmers. View the report here or use the toolbar below to expand the online view, print or download the document.
Caff
JUNE 1, 2022
The most consequential groundwater policy in California history has so far failed to include small and underrepresented farmers, according to a new report. Passed in 2014, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was designed to protect the state’s groundwater, setting up local agencies to develop regional plans to prevent over-pumping as demand grows, droughts persist, and climate change points to a drier future.
Caff
JUNE 1, 2022
In this episode we visit Vitis and Ovis Farm, a multi-generational Swiss-American-Ethiopian family farm located in the Capay Valley and specializing in pastured duck eggs, fruit and medicinal herbs. We talk to Hans, Barbara and Giselle Herren about the 30+ years of stewarding their land, including the recent shift from producing only wine grapes to planning for a more diversified operation designed with permaculture principles.
Caff
MAY 31, 2022
As summer approaches farmers throughout the state are entering their busiest season. They are working hard to bring our communities all the wonders that the summer season has to offer. Reatha Hardy-Jordan from Black Urban Farmers Association (BUFA) is one of those busy, hard-working people. BUFA is a member of CAFF because, according to Reatha, “I heard a lot of good things about the organization and how CAFF was helping small farmers.” Who is BUFA?
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
As we head into spring, there’s no better time to evaluate your on-farm risk, get your evacuation plan made and practice your response plan ahead of fire season! Check out this workshop recording featuring guest farmer educators Austin and Melissa Lely of BeeWell Farms. The post Intro to On-Farm Wildfire Preparedness with BeeWell Farms, Farmer Campus and CAFF appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
From Farmer Campus and Nuestra Comunidad, Disaster Preparedness Plan for farming or ranching families, businesses and their workforce. The post Ready on the Farm Disasters Preparedness Plan appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
A significant portion of Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades forests are owned and managed as small parcels (10 to 100 acres) by nonindustrial private landowners. This handbook is for such landowners; it provides succinct, straight-forward, and thorough information to help them develop a sound forest management strategy for their property. The post Forest Management Handbook for Small-Parcel Landowners in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Range appeared first on Community Alliance with Fami
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
The Siskiyou County University of California Cooperative Extension (“UCCE”) and the Siskiyou County Agricultural Department have established a program, through the issuance of a Livestock Access Pass, which may permit commercial livestock operators to gain entrance to evacuation zones or other restricted areas to care for commercial livestock during a disaster.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
Biochar is a specialized form of charcoal that is produced by heating biomass using high heat (typically 350 C to 1000 C) in low-oxygen environments, and that is suitable for use in agriculture. It is commonly used as a soil amendment (typically combined with compost) to increase soil health, conserve and store nutrients and water, and in many cases increase agricultural crop yields.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
Fires in forests and rangelands produce some of the most profound impacts on ecosystems of the Southwest. Wildfires and prescribed fires affect the vegetation, soils, wildlife, and water resources of watersheds. They impose a wide range of effects depending on the mosaic of fire severities and postfire hydrologic events The post An Overview of Fire Effects on Soil appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
A White Paper about Biochar and Energy (BC&E) for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Emission Reduction (ER). The post Climate Intervention with Biochar appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
In this two part photo blog series, Farmer Campus talked with farm manager David Cooper to hear his wildfire story and get a glimpse into the realities of farming with wildfire and how to recover. The post Financial Recovery And Support After A Wildfire appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
Tribal members Elizabeth Azuz and Margo Robbins join Farmer Campus’s Farmers Build Fire Resilience online course to share knowledge with producers learning to live with the repercussions of an intensifying wildfire season. The post Fire Is Family: A Conversation With The Yurok Tribe’s Cultural Fire Management Council appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
This study presents some of the first quantitative measurements of PDs bioaccumulated in premium California and Oregon grapes and wines due to wildfire smoke. Strategies of bioanalytics, oenology, and focused collections of grapes from vineyards exposed to varying smoke were merged to create indexes (based on ppb) to estimate the impact of wildfires on wine quality.
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
This book is an anthology of resilient communities telling their story of how they built collaboration with people and ruminants. Each one is told with a different voice, a different experience, yet all are connected through the hands of their community and the hooves of the grazing ruminants that brought them together. Through these stories, we hear about collaboration, unity and how human hands are a critical piece in the stewarding of our lands back to health: hooves and hands coming together
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
This recorded webinar with Catharine Anderson the Risk Management Agency covers the new Micro Farm program. This new crop insurance program is offered through the Whole-Farm Revenue Protection policy and is tailored to small producers who sell their products locally with operations that earn an average allowable revenue of $100,000 or less. Micro Farm minimizes underwriting and record-keeping requirements, covers post-production costs and producers will not have to report expenses and individ
Caff
JUNE 3, 2022
Information about The Micro Farm program offered through the USDA. The Micro Farm program provides a risk management safety net for all commodities on your farm under one insurance policy. This insurance plan is tailored for any farm with up to $100,000 in approved revenue, including farms with specialty or organic commodities (both crops and livestock), or those marketing to local, regional, farm-identity preserved, specialty, or direct markets.
Agribusiness Blog
MAY 30, 2022
The 2022 AICPA Ag Conference will be in Denver at the downtown Grand Hyatt on August 8-10, 2022. The sign-up page can be accessed here. The agenda contains both tax, accounting and industry related topics. Some of the key speakers and topics are as follows: Jim Wiesemeyer will give a timely update on Washington DC. With this being an election year, it will be good to get an idea on how the election may turn out and how it will affect ag.
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