Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Instead of growing a variety of crops and raising animals, most farms now rely on a commodity crop or two. That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. Thus far, the protests offer some takeaways for American food and farm activists.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 1, 2025

Land access and vibrant markets for beginning farmers are a cornerstone of resilient rural communities, said farmer Jason Grimm, Iowa Valley RC&D Executive Director and Owner of Grimm Family Farm in Iowa. ” The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition applauds the introduction of the New Producer Economic Security Act.

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Agribusiness Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

The USDA issued a press release yesterday titled “The American Families Plan Honors America’s Family Farms” In the press release, they strived to indicate that the transfer tax proposed in the American Families Plan will not affect 98% of farm estates. 1 million grain facility worth $1.5

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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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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Bayer Bayou Land Conservancy Bernheim Forest and Arboretum Biotechnology Innovation Organization Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Black Appalachian Coalition Blood Origins Bongards’ Creameries Brattset Family Farm Caddo Lake Institute California Beet Growers Association California Citrus Mutual California Dairies, Inc California Farm Bureau California (..)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. The farm is profiled along with other conservation-minded farmers here.

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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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Agribusiness Blog

MAY 11, 2023

You may have a different company set up to acquire the equipment or for hauling grain that family members use for both business and personal purposes. Maybe you formed a joint venture or partnership to run crop production activities through or you farmland for family members through a crop sharing arrangement.

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Agwired

JANUARY 26, 2024

The United States hosted the 59th International Grains Council Session and 2024 Grains Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana this week. The IGC discusses current and prospective world grain market developments, and monitors changes in national grain policies and their market implications. IGC on March 14 in Toledo, Ohio.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 5, 2023

One such farm is Axten Farms, situated in Minton, Saskatchewan. With a steadfast commitment to growing healthy grains, Axten Farms takes a regenerative approach focused on enhancing their land’s soil biodiversity, creating a thriving environment for food production.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But now, the position that these farmers find themselves in, is that they have become commodity slaves, encouraged by the supermarkets and food companies to produce the cheapest possible milk, beef, grain and vegetables. The retailers and food companies don’t even refer to buying crops anymore.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil. The actual amount will vary depending on your soil organic matter (SOM) percentage and how deep in the soil you measure.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. It displays the SweetRoot Farm logo—a beet sticking out of a row of dirt—and the text “Pastured eggs. Organic, GMO-free feed and whole grains, moved to fresh pasture regularly.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the early 19th century, hay and grain would have still been hand cut by an army of people using scythes. It’s no wonder that many farmers do not want their kids to take over the family farm, encouraging them to go to university and get a ‘real job’. Machines replaced humans in the countryside a long time ago.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Conservation on the Farm One way to do this is by using less fertilizer on the field. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It was on Janssen’s family farm in the state’s Ozark Mountains where her uncle rolled his tractor—which had no ROPS—into a ravine in the 1980s. The six tons of grain he was towing suddenly piled forward in the wagon. “Having worked with farmers for over 20 years, “they do have an attachment to their equipment,” she said.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) announced the election of Brian Duncan, a grain and livestock farmer from Polo, Ogle County, as the organization’s 16th president, and Evan Hultine, a grain farmer from Princeton, Bureau County, as vice president. They will each serve a two-year term at the helm of the organization.

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Agwired

AUGUST 18, 2023

Burkiewicz comes to GROWMARK from the News and Communications Division at Illinois Farm Bureau. A graduate from Illinois State University, Burkiewicz is originally from Central Illinois where her family farmed grain and livestock. The Nebraska Water Center recently named Karina Schoengold as the new Associate Director.

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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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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They’re also raising pasture-fed pork at Redtail Farms, and while the pork is a profitable venture, Griebel admits that he isn’t sure if it fits into their long-term sustainability plan. They require higher energy foods, so we supplement with imported grain and then rotate them through the pastures on grasses and legumes.”

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

“This is the moment for Congress to take action and ensure that the 2023 Farm Bill delivers material benefits for historically underserved farmers, ranchers, and forest owners striving to establish and grow their operations.”

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Drought and Wildfires Creating Challenges for Albertan Ranchers The major drought in 2018 was the worst that his uncle, Doug, could remember, says Tim, but then the heat dome that hit over the last summer (2021) (with temperatures consistently surpassing 40 degrees Celsius) had devastating impacts on ranches and farms in Alberta.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC encourages Congress to adopt this change in a final farm bill, as well as similar climate-targeting language for all major conservation programs. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. Over the past two years, nitrogen fertilizer and grain prices have both skyrocketed in large part due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Conservation uses valuable land, and yet I am sure that areas are available on all farms which, if taken out of production, would provide the habitat so vitally needed for wildlife. INTENSIFICATION Modern farming is intensive. Gone are the days when a family farm could make a living with 20 cows and a few sheep.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. And it is no accident.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Will Strader, a county extension director in Rockingham County, North Carolina, who grew up on a tobacco farm, described the situation in 2004 with his father’s words. “He He told me multiple times that our family farm, when he was growing up, supported six families. So, you know, it got to a point where we had to go out.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

GRAIN , International GRAIN partners with small-scale farmers and social movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to promote community-driven, biodiversity-focused food systems. World Rural Forum (WRF) , International WRF is a global network dedicated to advancing family farming and sustainable rural development.

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