Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. This deeply inequitable history has resulted in our current landscape where 98% of U.S. WANNA GET MORE INVOLVED?

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Keeping her farm well-managed is a responsibility she doesnt take lightly.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I I was really in tune with the movement of the seasons and the farm cycle—and I enjoyed that.” The dugouts remained low throughout most of the summer, not only on their family farm, but on the majority of farms in southern and central Alberta.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by 72 percent, while the average farm size nearly tripled. Independent family farms are the bedrock of healthy rural economies,” says Treakle.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. NSAC sees this as a commendable use of RCPP and we fully support the inclusion of this purpose in a final farm bill.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 29, 2024

One of the main bottlenecks for the farm bill has been disagreements over crop insurance —and how much funding should be allocated toward it. Opponents of increased crop insurance have long maintained that it drains taxpayers while benefiting large corporations and leaving more diversified family farm operations with nothing.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land. agricultural policy.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 3, 2024

The 2022 Census of Agriculture reported that the number of American farms fell below two million for the first time in almost a century. Kids are leaving the family farm to pursue careers outside of agriculture, and they’re not coming back. When am I going to start running the farm?” farmland market.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. As noted in a UCS report , by 1920 there were 920,000 Black farmers making up 14 percent of all farmers and owning 15 million acres of farmland.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many of the advocates also noted that while industry players have said the rules are not needed for the smaller plants since the water already goes through a public treatment plant, the EPA’s analysis found that most of those public treatment facilities lack technology to remove nitrogen or phosphorous. We Explain Why.

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