Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This lack of innovation has limited access to capital and made it difficult for young farmers to secure adequate financing for large land purchases. Solutions and Resources for Rural Land Ownership Despite these challenges, viable pathways to secure land ownership are emerging and creating opportunities to keep the family farm alive.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 2, 2023

This poses a serious threat to the future of American family farms and ultimately compromises our domestic food security. In this article, we break down four barriers to farm succession and outline the different strategies we can use to tackle them. High Cost of Entry Only eight percent of farmers are under the age of 35.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

The debate surrounding industrial agriculture and farm consolidation is complex and multifaceted. On one hand, industrial agriculture is criticized for contributing to the decline of small family farms and promoting unsustainable practices. We believe in the future of American agriculture because we’re a part of that future.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl. Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’

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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.

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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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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Making Informed Decisions with Farmbrite Farmbrite doesn't just help you manage your finances; it empowers you with insights into your farm's production and productivity. It provides the tools to keep you organized, allowing you to log important historical information, manage your farm, and keep records safe.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. Agroforestry is family farming, and agriculture is a family and community-based, hands-on activity.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Award Highlights NSAC congratulates all LCM recipients, including the following NSAC members: California Alliance of Family Farms (CAFF) , World Farmers , Cultivate Kansas City , Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) , Maine Farmland Trust , Agrarian Trust , and Land Stewardship Project (LSP).

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Caff

APRIL 9, 2024

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. (Photo courtesy Savannah Institute) Adams says SI has already received several inquiries from farmers interested in participating in the program.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One new entrant who has been able to find a share farming arrangement through Farming Connect is Dafydd Owen. Growing up on a family farm, he worked on a few farms before renting a small piece of land and buying some ewes and lambs.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Des Moines finances its removal system from its roughly 600,000 ratepayers. Conservation on the Farm One way to do this is by using less fertilizer on the field. Another is to introduce on-the-field and edge-of-field conservation practices, like Tesdell is doing on his Iowa family farm. Tesdell’s is 80.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the 19th century, most of the land was owned by large estates and the farming was controlled by the landowners, financed in most cases by money from outside agriculture. The landowners with their expertise were proud of their estates and had sufficient finance to produce a country scene that was a pleasure to behold.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

These contemporaries knew that their methods and policies would eliminate farms like the ones of their childhoods. During the 1980s, more farms were shuttered and many destroyed – buildings torn down and ploughed under for bigger farms to plant even more acres. This doesn’t mean that 500 families lost their entire farms.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a member of a local Colorado family farm herself, Emma already had some first-hand experience with owning and operating an ag business at Bohnen Farms Inc., Taylor has a bright future ahead of her! a feedlot and cow/calf business here in Bethune, CO.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

Ieuan Edwards is the youngest of three brothers who grew up on the family farm in the Conwy Valley in North Wales. Ieuan was 13-years-old when his father told him the farm wasn’t big enough for three boys and he would have to go into another business.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“We have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.” 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

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

JUNE 28, 2024

In a recent paper on crop insurance and finance in agriculture you wrote about rural politicians from both parties scrambling to prop up widely unpopular farm subsidies. Photo provided by Hamilton. Why do rural politicians feel the need to defend policies widely understood to favor large-scale agribusiness?

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Agribusiness Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The American Families Plan indicates some protections for family farms and ranches; however, this protection seems to simply defer paying the transfer tax with interest. This so-called protection may simply accelerate the liquidation of the family farm or ranch.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“Sea has everything to do with food justice and food access and our ability to have an equitable food system,” says Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director at Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Executive Director at National Family Farm Coalition. Let’s crunch some numbers.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In this video, Michael shares about his early career as a researcher and educator with the Rodale Institute; describes how the gnawing in his gut led him into farming and the move toward more regenerative practices that strengthen biodiversity, build soil health, and sequester carbon; and explains his family’s efforts to mitigate climate change.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Now, with the Farm Bill debate continuing at least through September of this year, pricing policy reforms could take center stage. Some farm groups, such as the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) with its dozens of member organizations, have made pricing policy reform central to their Farm Bill platform.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) , International CPI is an analysis and advisory organization specializing in finance and policy, focused on helping governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive economic growth while addressing climate change. The organization also plays a key role in global initiatives, such as the U.N.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

This new program offers guaranteed loans to finance real estate and infrastructure investments and provide working capital for commercial supply chain development. Businesses, cooperatives, and other eligible entities could apply for a blend of loans and grants to finance their overall projects and offer specific workforce training (Sec.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Theo Scholze of Scholze Family Farms in Humbird is among those who will benefit from the Crescent Meats expansion. “If you create more processing, you also create a whole series of new products for consumers, who are very interested in knowing the story behind their food.”

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

FSA is currently unable to offer pre-qualification or pre-approval services for farm ownership loans, yet this service is routinely offered by other lenders working with competing buyers for farm properties, which puts buyers who must use FSA financing at a disadvantage.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A report earlier this month found that while small, family farms produce a third of the world’s food, they have received less than 1 percent of international financing aimed at expanding climate-smart agriculture.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As the National Family Farm Coalition points out, “Focusing only on foreign ownership distracts from an overarching trend of rising corporate investment in farmland, largely driven by U.S-based based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Small-scale, part-time tobacco farming that filled savings accounts or paid debts—that was real, but is no longer. The more baroque fantasy, the tale of the miracle crop that founded a nation and ensured our freedom and financed our entry into the modern world? So, you know, it got to a point where we had to go out.

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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?” Is agricultural policy to blame?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothersthird-generation Black farmersstarted a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and milo.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Tax Policy Changes Tax reforms, particularly around estate and capital gains taxes, could have huge implications for landowners and the future of the American family farm. Keep reading to find unbiased summaries of key agricultural policy issues and general partisan stances on each topic. While a majority of U.S.

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