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Modern Farmer
MARCH 12, 2024
America’s farmers, especially beginning and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers face insurmountable challenges, yet 87 percent of young farmers are dedicated to regenerative, climate-smart farming practices. The next farm bill can fix this. with farmer Michelle Week of Good Rain Farm really impacted me.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Recent statistics on American agriculture reveal a decline of 200,000 farms between 2007 and 2022. million farms —to 2 million from 6.8 The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community.
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Modern Farmer
MAY 28, 2024
“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas.
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).
Daily Yonder
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The song tells the story of a farmer who is approached by a real estate developer. 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. My brother was right. No, the farmer says.
Trimble Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
farm real estate, valued at over $3 trillion in 2023, represents more than 80 percent of the total assets in the U.S. farm sector , making it a key resource that farmers can leverage to build a financially resilient operation. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. has been in decline.
National Young Farmers Coalition
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
In August, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA), under the leadership of Secretary Vilsack and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux, published a final rule in the Federal Register that includes a variety of updates to the FSA Farm Loan Programs (FLP) regulations.
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