Family Farming Farmland Supply Chain 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community. Recognizing the value of farmland and the fact that, as a popular phrase goes, “they’re not making any more land,” investors are buying up agricultural acreage. Brooks grew up on a small family farm in rural Tennessee.
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National Young Farmers Coalition
JULY 20, 2023
The proposed $100 million of annual funding over ten years will complement the Department’s existing farm production and conservation programs, and be available to a wide variety of entities, such as tribes, municipalities, non-profits, and cooperatives. “The Young farmers desperately need access to quality, affordable farmland.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. Similarly, in 2015 , 51 percent of the value of US farm production came from farms with at least $1 million in sales, compared to 31 percent in 1991.
National Young Farmers Coalition
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The hearing covered various topics, including the lack of data on farmland tenure, foreign ownership of farmland, and rising land values driven by non-farming buyers. The Issue of corporate ownership of farmland and farm consolidation is very, very important. The Farmland for Farmers Act (S.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. Im very proud of that.
Caff
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Despite this, regional food supply chains have long been under-funded and under-resourced. farmland owners identify as white. This year we will work with CDFA and allies to ensure this program will equitably support the growth of food systems jobs and the local farming economy. WANNA GET MORE INVOLVED?
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