Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. Customers who buy their eggs at the farmer’s market in downtown Hamilton or who swing through their farm store can pick up a carton with a very simple design. Noah & Mary.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Customers are increasingly suspicious that many of the foods they eat, and milk in particular, are coming from ever larger and more industrialised farms. His response stuck in my mind.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Today, new generations of innovative farmers see agroforestry as a solution to not just producing nutrient-dense food and specialty crops but to also mitigate the intensity of climate change-induced weather events. They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. They were a rough crew of sheep!”

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

They enjoy that their children can safely run around the farm, interact with the pigs that are raised on pasture, and even help with their parents’ work. Our son says all the time that he wants to farm with his dad when he gets bigger,” says Mikala. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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Caff

JUNE 1, 2022

In this episode we visit Vitis and Ovis Farm, a multi-generational Swiss-American-Ethiopian family farm located in the Capay Valley and specializing in pastured duck eggs, fruit and medicinal herbs.

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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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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. A large portion of their farm serves as rotational pasture for the goats and horses.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide. They worry about the inconveniences it might cause to production.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Undoubtedly, good things have come from needing fewer people to produce food, fuel, and fiber. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? In mathematics, we call this exponential decay.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures. Jason Isbell’s “Last of My Kind” calls out a family farm becoming a Wal-Mart parking lot. It throttles the capacity of local and regional food systems. It can lead, at times, to rural gentrification.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“The fence is inhumane: Elk behind the fence aren’t allowed to roam, move, look for healthy food and healthy waters.” At the same time, the bulk of California’s dairies are now in the Central Valley, where industrial-scale farming is the norm and water is scarce. “By For many, the tule elk are a clear priority.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

In 1909, he named the land “Valley View Ranch” — a name that Rod and Beth, along with their children, who represent the next generation of farmers on the family ranch, have preserved and continued to date. “We Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems. Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs. The microbes use carbon (organic matter) as a food source.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rotational Grazing, Keyline Design for Maximizing Water, and Food Forests for the Future By Trina Moyles While Ian Griebel grew up on his family’s mixed farm south of Castor, Alberta, he never thought he’d one day become a farmer. Local food, or grass fed beef was not really heard of at that time,” explains Griebel.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. Here, Alicia Miller, Content Editor for the Sustainable Food Trust, looks at why farmers, workers and communities are the bedrock of a resilient food and farming system.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. standards,” he writes in an email.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. to maintain a robust and resilient food and agricultural system.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Every year, we honor change-makers, trailblazers and those giving back to their local food and agricultural communities. Miguel is always open to talk and explore new opportunities, opening up his farm to better educate government officials, TA providers and potential buyers, all of this despite language barriers.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. As one gets closer to the Quimbayo Gutiérrez family farm, the landscape begins to change. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. During the 1940s, as US manufacturers transitioned from wartime supplies, the tractor became a favorite for manufacturers, farmers, and an agriculture leadership pressing for new ways to increase food production.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations. For example, the Grain Baron chapter is really about the Farm Bill.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Undoubtedly, good things have come from needing fewer people to produce food, fuel, and fiber. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? In mathematics, we call this exponential decay.

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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.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

When two small Western grass-fed beef brands combined forces in the name of growth in fall 2022, Jeff “Trip” Tripician was tapped to lead the newly formed company, Grass Fed Foods. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This project material is based upon work that is funded and supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. Like many multi-generational family farms, sustainability, resilience, and viability are forged out of necessity.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

From 2020-2022 CAFF partnered with fifteen farms across California to develop and update their food safety practices. Get to know more about our Partner Farm Program and meet 4 of our Partner Farms below. CAFF’s Partner Farm Program is an in-depth partnership between a farm and CAFF food safety staff.

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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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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 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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The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. Eat whole foods. Here's a young wanna-be farmer stymied by parental paranoia regarding bird flu.

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