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

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

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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Caff

JUNE 11, 2024

Background After months of advocacy, the State Legislature proposed a joint budget agreement that would prevent critical investments in food hubs and small farm emergency relief from getting cut! to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hub: Created by former Asm Bloom, this program would create NEW food hubs across California.

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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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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). Additionally, being such a novel method of farming in the U.S.,

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a fourth-generation farmer, Trisha says that her farm today looks a lot different from her childhood. Trisha grew up farming with her family, and she knew she would one day raise her own family on a farm.

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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

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

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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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Having been inspired by Rosamund Young’s latest book The Wisdom of Sheep , Julie Baber shares with us the magic of Kite’s Nest Farm, where “the kitchen is warm, the tea copious, the milk creamy”. Tucked into a valley on the scarp slope of the Cotswolds, and with nature in abundance, it’s no wonder the farm draws you in.

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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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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

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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Western FarmPress

MAY 28, 2024

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

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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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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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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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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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

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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).

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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.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

In the United States, consolidation throughout the agricultural sector makes it difficult for smaller, independent farms to survive. According to the 2022 Census of Agriculture , large farms comprise only 4 percent of the total number of farms in the U.S. Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S.

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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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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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

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Caff

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To help small farmers struggling through an epic drought, wildfire devastation, and the pandemic… CAFF AWARDED GRANTS TO 240 FARMS IN NEED TOTALING OVER $1.5 Translation: “Thank you for awarding me these funds, it’s going to be so helpful for my farm, especially in these difficult times.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 10, 2023

The cut of $40 million from the SWEEP program is the most concerning, since improving on-farm water use efficiency is of the utmost importance in efforts to balance water use and implement SGMA.” million in budget cuts to programs that would support the essential infrastructure and training needs of farmers.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 12, 2024

What if you're a family farming operation with several partners structured as an LLC? Who should be eligible for assistance? And once deemed eligible, how much assistance should they receive?

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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 (..)

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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

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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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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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Commentary: Here’s a 61-year perspective on farming, working together and transitioning a family farm.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 27, 2024

Family Farm Success: Set priorities for estate planning, build a transition team and put it to work.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Given the enormous challenges facing production agriculture – including a farm economy that has taken a downward spiral – it is imperative Congress act before year’s end to strengthen farm policy for America’s farmers. Farmers are struggling, and the decline in the farm economy is real. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Family Farm Success: The cost of doing nothing is high enough to put your farm at risk of surviving into the next generation.

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