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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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
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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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.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Doug and Stacey Keas are passing along their family farming legacy in Rooks County.
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.
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.
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.
Real Agriculture
OCTOBER 18, 2024
As a young boy, Dr. Charles Vincent loved heading to the family farm just outside of Montreal, Quebec. His fascination with farming led him to start a degree in agronomy, where he instead fell in love with the study of insects, eventually leading to a 40-year career studying agriculture pests for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
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?
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.
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.”
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Country Counsel: Here are five key action items for those impacted.
Western FarmPress
JUNE 23, 2024
This Indiana Master Farmer is proof that you don’t need the best soils to develop a profitable farm.
Western FarmPress
MAY 28, 2024
Business Basics: Create a business structure that reduces squabbles and boosts performance.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Here is why this Hoosier farming family is committed to no-till and cover crops for the long haul.
Western FarmPress
JULY 12, 2024
Kansas Tourism: New facility will educate visitors and provide a new level of transparency to milk production.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Conrad and Donna Trost say family is the key to their farm’s success.
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.
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
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Slideshow: For Wendte Farms of Altamont, Ill., harvest takes a village — and four generations working together side by side.
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.
Sustainable Food Trust
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Superficially, it is a warm, amusing, easy to read collection of snippets of life on a family farm. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust. The post Lessons from a life on the family farm appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust.
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).
ATTRA
MARCH 4, 2024
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) published An Analysis of the Effect of Sunsetting Tax Provisions for Family Farm Households. This report concluded that the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act will mean increased taxes for most farm households.
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Show-Me Life: Your farm transition can be smooth if you heed advice, make plans and persevere.
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.
Rodale Institute
APRIL 5, 2023
Rodale Institute, a global research and education nonprofit, is joining forces with Kansas Wesleyan University and Quail Creek Family Farms (QCFF) to grow education programming in Kansas focused on regenerative […] The post Rodale Institute, KWU and Quail Creek Family Farms Partner to Expand Access to Regenerative Organic Agriculture Education (..)
Caff
DECEMBER 22, 2022
.” – Tanya Tolmasoff Knippelmeir, Tolmasoff Vineyard We build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. Joining our community by becoming a CAFF member here.
Caff
JANUARY 10, 2023
million in cuts to the sustainable agriculture programs such as the Healthy Soils Pogram and the Pollinator Habitat Program The post Family Farms React to Governor’s Proposed Budget, Major Cuts appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers. $40 million cut to the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program $94.5
Food Tank
AUGUST 16, 2024
Family farms are the backbone of our food system. More than 90 percent of farms—about 500 million—are run either by individual or family labor! billion people worldwide are involved in family farming, and these operations produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food value, according to U.N. More than 1.5
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.
Caff
JUNE 29, 2021
Janet McGarry lives in San Francisco where she writes about agriculture and environmental issues. The post Drought’s Toll on California Family Farms appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers. This severe drought is going to have detrimental effects.”
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Jepsen Family Farms is a 2024 Ohio Conservation Farm Family award winner.
Western FarmPress
MAY 28, 2024
Slideshow: Coming back to the family farm requires tough conversations and complex considerations.
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