Family Farming Fertilizer Pesticide 
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
I sold pesticides for 10 years, and now I don’t. Trisha grew up farming with her family, and she knew she would one day raise her own family on a farm. She studied agriculture in college and worked for a pesticide company for about a decade. In fact, now I am a regenerative farmer.”
Food Tank
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. These markets are large and important to local producers.
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Farmbrite
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.
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
OCTOBER 9, 2023
This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This certification is only provided to small independent or family farms, and the AGW does not charge a fee to award this certification, making it unique among certification standards.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 24, 2023
But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
Leadership from the USDA and agriculture schools, like the one at Iowa State University, influence farm methods; but even recommendations to reduce farm chemicals have unintended outcomes. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter.
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