Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. On the demonstration sites, farmers can see examples of successful integration of trees on farms.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. Join us for the awards ceremony on Feb 28 as part of this year’s California Small Farm Conference. Janet ran the farm for 24 years until her recent retirement. Learn more here.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. Farm Hounds jerky.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”?

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business. And who was really in charge when I was co-owner of our family dairy farm? I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As kavas allure grows, so, too, have local restrictions. In Florida, the so-called U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa. Johnson laughs.

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Caff

JUNE 1, 2022

In this episode we visit Vitis and Ovis Farm, a multi-generational Swiss-American-Ethiopian family farm located in the Capay Valley and specializing in pastured duck eggs, fruit and medicinal herbs.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Congress let the last farm bill expire at the end of September, I was navigating an ongoing drought on my Iowa farm for the third year in a row. Meanwhile, it may be months before lawmakers can agree on a new farm bill. Iowa is known for its lush, green summers and abundant rivers and streams.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SweetRoot Farm is pitched squarely in the middle of a long and narrow mountain valley, framed by the Bitterroot Mountains on one side and the Sapphire Mountains on the other. The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. They lived with friends in a number of different farm houses outside of Madison. When they purchased the farm, the front 40 acres were planted in corn.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As negotiations around the next farm bill continue, farmers and hundreds of stakeholders want to make sure that funding for climate-friendly practices is protected and remains in conservation programs with a climate focus. Conservation buffer in bloom at Vilicus Farms. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rotational Grazing, Keyline Design for Maximizing Water, and Food Forests for the Future By Trina Moyles While Ian Griebel grew up on his family’s mixed farm south of Castor, Alberta, he never thought he’d one day become a farmer. Shortly after they moved back to the farm, Griebel’s father was diagnosed with cancer.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. Then he asks: “I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?” No, the farmer says. But I can’t part ways with a life that works.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

But on Mallonee Farms , a Washington State dairy farm , things are different. Only found in small areas of prairie grassland west of the Cascade Mountains, Mallonee Farms is the northernmost epicenter for the lupine in the US. On the Mallonee farm, the latest mapping shows a 33-percent increase in the lupine’s population.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. The farm bill gets passed about every five years, and the current bill expires on Sept. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

María Petronila Gutiérrez, whose farm La Miranda was one of the first to join Amazonian Farms. Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. Image by Antonio Paz.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Selected from nominations that pour in from every corner of California by people like you, this year’s honorees represent the changing face of California farming and a commitment to equity, access and long-term sustainability. This duo is bringing new regenerative practices to their farm, while improving upon time-tested traditions.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter. How did America Establish Today’s Farming Methods?

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He continued, “We’re very grateful to have the seashore’s federally recognized and affiliated tribe be part of this project.” “By getting rid of these small family farms, we’re forcing dairy farms to get bigger and bigger and the whole food system to be less environmentally friendly and produce lower-quality food that’s not organic.”

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. Here, Alicia Miller, Content Editor for the Sustainable Food Trust, looks at why farmers, workers and communities are the bedrock of a resilient food and farming system.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business. And who was really in charge when I was co-owner of our family dairy farm? I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I was really in tune with the movement of the seasons and the farm cycle—and I enjoyed that.” When a part-time pastor position opened up at his home church in near by Airdrie, Tim and his wife Joanne decided to move their family back onto a quarter section property of the family land. “I

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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

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

The USDA’s dismal Census of Agriculture (February 13, 2024) disclosed that 141,733 farms shuttered between 2017 and 2022. Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980’s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbors, Barons takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The project aimed to highlight distinct and diverse farms of Virginia’s agricultural community through a narrative inquiry framework. Most of their meat sales are sold through their on-farm store. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

From 2020-2022 CAFF partnered with fifteen farms across California to develop and update their food safety practices. Get to know more about our Partner Farm Program and meet 4 of our Partner Farms below. What is the Partner Farm Program? Meet the Partner Farms​ CAFF partnered with fifteen California farms from 2020-2022.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Meats raised $4 million in funding with the help of Provenance Capital Group, an investment bank that works primarily with extraordinarily wealthy families. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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