Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. They want to come out to the farm.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

However, as the global population has surged (it is expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050), weather fluctuations have intensified, and the demand for efficient farming has increased substantially. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Civil Eats

APRIL 10, 2025

Food Security and Farm Protection Act , introduced by Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) : A revision of the EATS Act that would overturn Californias Proposition 12, which banned selling pork from pigs raised in tight confinement. Its a priority of the National Family Farm Coalition.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much non-recyclable packaging. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much?

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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.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. Going to Florida on vacation isn’t always an option for a livestock farmer. Today, the majority (75 percent) of U.S. Most people wake up, eat, and eat.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. Throughout the RPFSA, numerous provisions take consequential steps toward a more equitable food and farm system.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Careful observation is at the root of the empathetic approach to animal husbandry at Kite’s Nest Farm. One of the most important things any livestock farmer can do is to watch and learn – in fact, this is a skill that would benefit the general population. For a livestock farmer there is much that is familiar.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. Luckily, his father was just about to retire. “To

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Small farmers who scrambled to adapt and supply healthy, local food when the pandemic shuttered restaurants and dining halls are once again facing enormous challenges. Caiti Hachmyer of Red H Farm in South Sebastopol started a CSA in 2020 which helped her farm survive the pandemic but the heavy workload took its toll.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Erin delivering beef purchased by AgAmerica from a Youth Fair Steer Project to a local food bank. AgAmerica largely values family farms and strives to set up each client for lasting success. She grew up raising livestock to show through the FFA and 4H, which has instilled a passion for youth in agriculture.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. In this week’s Field Report, an update on how lawmakers are gearing up for a food-and-ag sprint when they return to D.C. Unlike SNAP, it generally garners bipartisan support, since it focuses on healthy food and directs more dollars directly to farmers. in September.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Its agrihood model uses tiny homes as the residences, with 11 families currently sharing the responsibilities of gardening and caring for the chickens, honey bees and orchards. The community was started by a husband-and-wife team, inspired by a passion for tiny homes and good food. Participation requirements on the farms vary.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Before members of Congress left for their August break, they initiated a flurry of activity in advance of what will likely be a sprint toward writing and then passing the legislation that shapes America’s food and agriculture system. More than 600 farm, nutrition, and public health organizations support expanding the program.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

agriculture, food systems, and rural communities.” Whether our crops come to harvest or our livestock make it to market is directly tied to the cycles of nature that we try our best to work within. At the same time, skyrocketing input costs squeeze farmers’ margins, hurting rural economies and jacking up food prices for consumers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business. Of course, this is not the end of the story.

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Food Tank

MAY 29, 2024

Record rainfall in May 2024 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, has caused destructive flooding that is wreaking havoc on the country’s agricultural and livestock sectors. The flooding demolished food storage, stalled harvests, and damaged soils. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports. The floods’ effects may persist.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 12, 2024

Our list of recommended food and farming films and TV series is especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. As a new entrant grower with no family background in food production, it is Adrienne who has perhaps the hardest path.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This means that many farmers aren’t able to sell their livestock, losing income when the animals grow too large. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members. With Niman Ranch, you know what you’re going to get,” says Wahl. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in a special edition of Food Tank’s newsletter. I just returned from one of my favorite events, the Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Food Tank is honored to co-host an Educational Summit. These are stories that are too often ignored and forgotten.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It The same year that Carman returned to her family farm, a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, was detected in the US.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 23, 2023

Wild Kid Acres in Edgewater, Maryland is a farm dedicated to responsible livestock and land stewardship. The farm is becoming a hub for agricultural education, local farm products, and shared technological resources. Here to date we’re at over 65 dumpsters of trash taken off of the property,” Martinez tells Food Tank.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

full_link LEARN MORE How farmers are adapting to Phoenix’s rising temperatures to keep growing food. But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. It’s complicated.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

French farmers, for instance, managed to persuade their nation’s leaders to ban food imports treated with the insecticide thiacloprid, dedicate €150 million (US$163 million) annually to support livestock producers and provide European-wide definitions for what constitutes lab-grown meat.

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Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kendra Altnow shares the history of the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyards. On December 5th, the Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a field day at the LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyard in Acampo, CA.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The initiative aims to “uplift the dairy sector” and strengthen local markets, says Susan Pheasant, director of California State University Fresno’s Institute for Food and Agriculture (IFA), which hosts the Pacific Coast Coalition DBII. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says. “As

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. He is also on the CAFF Policy Committee and a member of Black Farmers Rising, a burgeoning statewide Black Farmer and Food Activist organizing group. We can’t wait to see what she does next!

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members. Photo courtesy of the Boors The post Young Farmers Bring Small-scale, Humane Hog Farming Back to Iowa appeared first on Food Tank. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 1, 2025

The bill helps secure our domestic food supply by establishing a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA). This is a matter of national security, food security, and the strength and vitality of rural America.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 28, 2024

I named my business Diamond B Show Stock, a nod to my family farm, Diamond B farms. The family business started in the 1970s and is still running strong today. I’m proud to be the next link in the chain for my family’s agricultural business, and I hope to keep it going for the generations that come after me.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While these programs haven’t always been used to make farms climate resilient, they all have the potential to do so—and more funding and specific guardrails specified within the IRA would make that even more likely. Seth Watkins, a farmer from Clarinda, Iowa, was able to save his family farm with the help of conservation funding.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. At the same time, the US is losing small and mid sized family farms at a rapidly increasing rate.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Food and farming writer, Steph Wetherell, explores the potential of share farming, an agricultural model common in the New Zealand dairy farming industry and on the rise in the UK, whereby new entrants gain access into farming through connecting with existing landowners who in turn benefit from the support they receive for succession arrangements.

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