Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ho`la Farms, a small nonprofit on Hawaii Island, aims to use agriculture to help veterans rebuild a sense of purpose in their lives. Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This blog post outlines the funding guidelines, application deadlines, and program requirements for a range of food and farm system grants funded through USDA that are currently accepting applications. For more detailed information on these and other USDA grant programs, see NSAC’s Grassroots Guide to Federal Food and Farm Programs.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. His response stuck in my mind.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Being a naive kid, living in rural America…you get burned out on a community that you know everybody in and you don’t take it for what it is. By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. I was just working [on the farm] all the time and loved it.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

New research published in Nature Sustainability projects that, if trends continue, the number of farms across the world will be sliced in half by the end of the 21 st century as consolidation of land, wealth and power reshapes our farming and food landscape. The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2023

Your new favorite farm podcast about overcoming adversity, achieving success, and appreciating everything rural life has to offer. Many Americans grow up without understanding the resilience, dedication, and courage it takes to get food from the farm to the table. Farming is a great profession. years back in 2017.

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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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Caff

MAY 14, 2024

While acknowledging this year’s budget deficit, Community Alliance with Family Farmers(CAFF) and California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) are disappointed by the additional cuts made to critical disaster relief for the majority of California’s farmers. And yet the Governor has proposed $17.9 The proposed $17.9

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? But unfortunately, this has been at the expense of our natural capital, climate and food quality. The retailers and food companies don’t even refer to buying crops anymore.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built?

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This bill is more necessary than ever, as earlier this year reporting surfaced that the market share of JBS – USA ( a global food and meatpacking company) and other major packers has made it impossible for USDA to consider breaking ties with them.

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was by a stroke of luck that Alvarado learned about North Carolina-based Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI), a nonprofit which helps farmers in tough situations free of charge. Bunting, now 79, runs a family farm with his son in Oak City, North Carolina, where he once raised poultry and hogs and now grows hemp and corn.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Every year, we honor individuals, farms and local businesses making a positive impact on our food and agricultural communities throughout California. Big thanks to everyone who nominated their own local food and farm heroes. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 10, 2023

by Tommy Enright, WFU Communications & Special Projects Coordinator In recent years, concerns about the lack of competition in the agriculture and food industries have been growing. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is among the 31 state attorneys general joining forces with federal officials in this critical endeavor.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Jason Isbell’s “Last of My Kind” calls out a family farm becoming a Wal-Mart parking lot. It is transforming many of the once-rural communities on its edges. My family’s small farm is about 40 miles south of Nashville. It devastates wildlife habitats, impacts the climate, and harms rural economies.

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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. I didn’t think we could do it on our own.”

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world. Most land in Iowa is not even farmed by owners anymore. From Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick. Copyright © 2024 Austin Frerick.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 30, 2024

agriculture is a hot one, but it’s primarily discussed at the farm and processing level. Both are critical topics, as monopolies in the meatpacking industry or the disappearing American family farm have significant impacts on the present and future of our food system. The topic of consolidation in U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. We look forward to working with you to bring a bipartisan 2024 farm bill to fruition. Thank you for considering our request.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

The Increasing Land Access, Security, and Opportunities Act , makes a critical investment in locally-led solutions that support farmers and ranchers in increasing food access, strengthening local supply chains, growing rural economies, and building climate resilience.”

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. The quality of rural care can be low.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. The land has been in our family since 1892, but the ownership hasn’t exactly been “linear.” I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense.

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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. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years.

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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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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines. Tesdell’s is 80.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, they still represent a very significant source of nutrition – a service I don’t think we should ever take for granted, especially with all the climate-related threats to crop production and food security that are coming our way. Neither should we forget the wider social value of Scotland’s grasslands.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. The second post explores the FFNSA’s impacts on local and regional food systems. 2501, 2502).

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Harvest of the Month involves rural food hubs in sourcing supplies of fresh produce from local family farms. CDCR, the state’s largest purchaser of food, is planning to roll out Harvest of the Month to all 33 of its adult facilities within the next two years.

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It’s a valuable moment for members to collaborate, engage with leaders, and advocate for a resilient family farm system.” The weekend will also feature ample networking time, the Youth Award & Torchbearer ceremony, and a celebration of rural champions. For more information, visit www.wisconsinfarmersunion.com. ###

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Food back then was not the cheap and abundant commodity that it is today. Could this sociological depreciation be the reason why farming has become so lonely, with fewer, larger farms and ever-increasing levels of debt? Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5 Back to the countryside?

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

In addition to sharing their stories and insights, the people we interviewed had a lot of helpful advice—both for farmers hoping to change the way they farm and for non-farmers who are interested in where their food comes from. Here is some of that advice, edited for length and clarity. For farmers: You’re not alone.

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