Caff

JANUARY 10, 2025

– Alexis Malick-Koefoed, Farmer, Soul Food Farm The post States Proposed Budget and Climate Bond Commitments Support Programs for Family Farms appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

The American family farm is the cornerstone of our nation—but is its existence in jeopardy? As the land of the free and home of the brave, the American family farm has been a foundational part of this nation and the meaning of independence. According to the 2022 ag census, family farms still dominate U.S.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 29, 2024

Kevin Gardner of North Carolina-based Gardner Family Farms shares different ways ag tech is making their lives easier in 2024. The post How Gardner Family Farms Gains Ground With Ag Technology appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Volleman’s Family Farm gives back to help shape the future of the dairy industry Nestled deep in the heart of Central Texas along Highway 36 in Comanche County, Gustine with a population of just over 400, is home to a thriving dairy farm and bottling plant run by a family of Aggies, five of whom.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 6, 2025

Next-Gen Agribusiness: Start early and plan ahead to ensure a smooth farm transition.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 17, 2025

If you havent reviewed your policy lately, now is a good time. Though the premium price tag often pales in the aftermath of a natural disaster, what moves to the forefront is establishing whats covered and at what level. Storm preparation includes reviewing coverage.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If If we didn’t have Niman Ranch, we wouldn’t be raising pigs…we are a small farm and 225 pigs is just tiny on the scale of the large conventional operations.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 28, 2024

Business Basics: Create a business structure that reduces squabbles and boosts performance.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 30, 2024

The post Leading Produce Growers Bowles Farming Company, Braga Fresh Family Farms, and Taylor Farms Innovate Soil Health Management with Technology appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. Three leading growers install the Agrology Arbiter System to track their in-field carbon footprints and soil health.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 7, 2023

Many of you run family farm businesses filled with the opportunities, challenges and satisfaction that comes with it. This is true on the farm and. Read More Many of you run family farm businesses filled with the opportunities, challenges and satisfaction that comes with it. This is true on the farm and.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Where I Come From: The mix of emotions at harvest varies depending on who you ask: Dad, Mom, adult children, spouses, on the farm and off.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 12, 2024

Texas farming partners Jason Moss and Chris Bogner are recognized as the 2024 Joe O'Neill Cotton Marketer of the Year at this year's Beltwide Cotton Conferences.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Conrad and Donna Trost say family is the key to their farm’s success.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Here is why this Hoosier farming family is committed to no-till and cover crops for the long haul.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 23, 2024

This Indiana Master Farmer is proof that you don’t need the best soils to develop a profitable farm.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Show-Me Life: Your farm transition can be smooth if you heed advice, make plans and persevere.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

MARCH 13, 2025

Hundreds of farmers and ranchers from throughout the nation gathered March 9-11 to set the family farm organizations 2025 policy.This is a challenging moment for family farmers. Rising costs, corporate consolidation and uncertainty around federal programsincluding the lack of a renewed farm b

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Slideshow: For Wendte Farms of Altamont, Ill., harvest takes a village — and four generations working together side by side.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 12, 2024

Kansas Tourism: New facility will educate visitors and provide a new level of transparency to milk production.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Farmers Weekly A helicopter is not the standard piece of farm kit to be stored in a machinery shed, but Canadian grain producer Wade McAllister plans to combine his passion for farming and flying to enhance crop and soil health at the family farm in Alberta.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 29, 2023

The stint marked a return to her farming roots, having grown up on the family farm in Bolton. See […] The post Photo of the Week: Sara Cox embraces farming roots at Royal Welsh appeared first on Farmers Weekly Sara judged the Interbreed Beef Young Handler Competition alongside her father Graham.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farming-mad Thomas, aged 9, is pictured following every minute of the harvest at his family farm in Norfolk on board a paddle board. Thomas is a fourth-generation farmer in the making and enjoys “carpet farming” at home, replicating the farming activities with his scale-model toys.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Someone to Know: Indiana farmer Scott Smith keeps his priorities in check to be successful on and off the farm.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 11, 2025

The 1980s farm crisis spurred Craig Hill to become active in Farm Bureau. Almost 40 years later, this involvement, along with farming technology, led to Craig and Patti Hill being 2025 Iowa Master Farmers.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Based just outside of Bath, in Somerset, Oliver White works alongside his dad and brother on the family farm, where they keep about 450 ewes and 150 beef cattle. Farmers Weekly You’ve heard of Britain’s Fittest Farmer. But what about Britain’s fastest farmer?

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 13, 2023

As part of a bid to streamline systems on the mixed family farm on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, Tom Higgs has recently started finishing calves on contract for […] The post How contract finishing brought certainty to a farming business appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Embracing technology and keeping a close eye on cow condition have helped maintain pregnancy rates at 23% and support cow longevity at an Ayrshire family farm.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly With just a bag of clothes in the back of his Ford Focus, Steve Pack’s career in soil nutrition began 12 years ago as he drove from the family farm in Hertfordshire to Kent to set up shop as a lime sales agent.

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USDA Blog

MAY 31, 2024

For basketball great Ralph Sampson, farming is his new game of choice. The new and beginning farmer is looking to resurrect his family’s farm and spur new economic growth on the ancestral land.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Country Counsel: Here are five key action items for those impacted.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly The Prince’s Countryside Fund, the charity founded by His Majesty King Charles to support family farms and rural communities, has officially become the Royal Countryside Fund.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 9, 2024

The persistence of family farming is among the most surprising facts about the economics of food. and elsewhere most farms do not sell directly to consumers but operate behind the scenes, selling their produce in bulk to specialists for transport and distribution, often for use as ingredients in packaged and processed foods.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly Justifying a new tractor or baler for a beef and sheep enterprise on a family farm is becoming increasingly hard as costs inflate to erode margins. And according […] The post Sharing livestock machinery: Advice and options appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 10, 2024

Family Farm Success: Family farms reap the benefit when the next generation builds skills and experience through off-farm work and development programs.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly A second dairy unit set up on neighbouring arable land has given two brothers a long-term future on their Leicestershire family farm Martin Wade and his sons, George and Ben, ran at Honeypot Farm, a 350-cow dairy unit between Market Harborough and Lutterworth.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 28, 2024

Slideshow: Coming back to the family farm requires tough conversations and complex considerations.

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