Carrying on the family farm legacy
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Two brothers transition into leadership on their family farm and find opportunities through young farmer programs.
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Looking after a family farming legacy
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Doug and Stacey Keas are passing along their family farming legacy in Rooks County.
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Essential Steps in Family Farming
Agric4profits
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
Family farming is a vital part of agriculture, providing food security and sustaining rural communities. This guide will cover essential aspects of family farmi
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Why Are Family Farms in Trouble?
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Because farming is so central to our nation’s identity—and its idea of itself—this future can feel fraught. In 2012, the USDA forecast that most (70 percent) family farms would transfer hands over the next 20 years. Will family farms as we know and love them survive, and how do the ones that are thriving now do it?
Are American Family Farms Disappearing?
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.
An Aggie approach to expanding the family farm
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.
A family farm without conflict is a unicorn
Western FarmPress
MAY 28, 2024
Business Basics: Create a business structure that reduces squabbles and boosts performance.
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Pringle Family Farms earns top marketing award
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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How Gardner Family Farms Gains Ground With Ag Technology
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.
Trosts emphasize ‘family’ in family farm
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Conrad and Donna Trost say family is the key to their farm’s success.
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Why this family farms like they do
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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Legacies are to be lived and not left — Dr. Mark Lyons, CEO of Alltech
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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What does harvest mean on a family farm?
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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Leading Produce Growers Bowles Farming Company, Braga Fresh Family Farms, and Taylor Farms Innovate Soil Health Management with Technology
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.
Future of Family Farms in the San Joaquin Valley
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?
Tim Gauck displays passion for family, farming
Western FarmPress
JUNE 23, 2024
This Indiana Master Farmer is proof that you don’t need the best soils to develop a profitable farm.
Tips for young farmers taking over the family farm
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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Putting family in the family farm harvest
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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McCarty Family Farms debuts Judy McCarty Dairy Learning Center
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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ICGA president balances faith, family, farming
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.
Grower improves fungicide use and compaction with helicopter
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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Photo of the Week: Sara Cox embraces farming roots at Royal Welsh
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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Photo of the Day: Harvest paddling along nicely
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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‘Britain’s fastest farmer’ swaps tractor for Porsche
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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How contract finishing brought certainty to a farming business
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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Gold Cup winners share body condition scoring strategy
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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Why Kent lime contractor commissioned custom Bunning spreader
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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Basketball Legend Seeks USDA's Help to Transform Family Farm Into a Sustainable Agricultural Enterprise
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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Court decision affects life insurance strategy for family farm business buyouts
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Country Counsel: Here are five key action items for those impacted.
King Charles gives farming charity royal renaming
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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Sharing livestock machinery: Advice and options
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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Weekend Reading: Food Economics (also a gift!)
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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Why gain experience off farm?
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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How brothers secured future with second autumn-block herd
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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Farming through the eyes of a college student
Western FarmPress
MAY 28, 2024
Slideshow: Coming back to the family farm requires tough conversations and complex considerations.
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Marin County farmers market leader honored by family-farming group
Caff
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Naja-Riese, executive director of the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) , has been named the 2023 Farmers Market Champion of the Year, an annual recognition awarded by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF).
To pay or not to pay your farm kid
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Business Basics: Compensating kids for work on the family farm offers a tax break for farmers and investment opportunities for the next generation.
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Call the Gov Today for Local Food & Family Farms
Caff
JUNE 11, 2024
million to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hubs Program created by AB 1009 (Bloom) $17.9 million to CDFA’s California Underserved and Small Producer (CUSP) program These programs are critical for the long-term success of small farms across California and our local food economies and must be fully restored.”
Combine driver relishes wheat harvest, posts farm life
Western FarmPress
JULY 3, 2024
Plus, how she's using TikTok to tell her family's farming story. Sara Nicholson reminisces about wheat harvest and why, after 40 years, she keeps coming back.
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Lopes Family Farm Field Day: Integrated rice and duck farming
Caff
JULY 19, 2023
On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). For more information on Lopes Family Farm follow them at Lopes Family Farms. *All
Mom and Dad don’t owe you a farm
Western FarmPress
APRIL 23, 2024
More than Dirt: Greed and entitlement are factors which must be considered before passing down a family farm legacy.
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Harvest time: Combine cab is where I want to be
Western FarmPress
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Young farmer enjoys learning about agriculture and participating in family farm business.
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Estate planning versus succession planning
Western FarmPress
MARCH 20, 2024
Family Farm Success: How to take the first two steps to transition ownership and leadership.
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Know when to amend your farm goals
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 29, 2024
Family Farm Success: Turning around is hard. Walking the wrong way fast is harder.
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