Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Every October, cooperatives across the globe celebrate co-op month. This year’s theme, Co-ops Build Economic Power, is a chance to lift up the cooperative business model to build an economy that empowers everyone. As people face inflation and supply chain challenges, cooperatives provide stability and opportunity, create dignified, empowering jobs with paths to ownership and wealth-building, and put diversity and equity at the heart of an inclusive economy.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. Credit: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Editor’s Note: Around 50% of Americans drink coffee daily, and many around the world enjoy starting their day with a hot cup of coffee. Our reliance on just two coffee species to brew the drink we love could threaten the future of this delicious beverage.

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SILT

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A first-ever poetry anthology of land trust farms across the country features five SILT farms and poets assembled by Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander. Writing the Land : Foodways and Social Justice is a sustainable-food-production-and-art-themed anthology that brings together poets and land protection and anti-hunger organizations from across the US.

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The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I guested on Dr. Peter Osborne’s podcast today and he used an interesting statement worth sharing. We talked about fake meat and the anti-livestock craze to save the planet from incinerating. He mentioned twice that today’s children are being guilt-driven with an abusive burden to save the planet. I had never thought about the emotional trauma of placing that burden on our children.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

October 2-8 marks National 4-H Week for over 6 million youth across the country. 4-H was born when AB Graham started a youth program in Clark County, Ohio in 1902 with the first club being called “The Tomato Club” or the “Corn Growing Club”. That same year, TA Erickson of Douglas County, Minnesota started local agricultural after-school clubs and fairs.

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Caff

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Note: This webinar series has passed. Click here to watch the webinar series on CAFF’s YouTube Channel. Are you a farmer or rancher interested in producing or scaling a value-added product? Are you interested in applying for the USDA’s Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG)? Join CAFF for a 3-part webinar series on value-added products and the VAPG Each webinar will feature a guest speaker and conclude with a question and answer session.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The Tax Court released the Furrer case this week and it shows that farmers must be very careful to follow the Charitable Remainder Trust rules. If not, the penalty can be very high income taxes, interest and penalties. In the case, the farmer contributed corn and soybeans into a Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (CRAT) in two separate years (2015 and 2016).

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