NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Nevada Cattlemen’s Association New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau New Mexico Wine & Grape Growers Association New York Corn & Soybean Growers Association New York Farm Bureau New York Pork Producers Coop Inc New York State Division, IWLA Normex, Inc.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Creates a 10% set-aside of EQIP funds for payments for practices implemented on small farms. Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management. No language to prevent payment limitation abuse.

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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.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. NSAC encourages Congress to adopt this change in a final farm bill, as well as similar climate-targeting language for all major conservation programs.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Most northern farmers have, I’m sure, that same affection for their land, but conservation and woodland management does cost money, fencing at £3 per yard; weeding and brashing are all labour-intensive occupations that cannot be supported economically on most of our farms. The profitability of livestock farming in the north is not high.

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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. When I was growing up, farming was a lot of smaller farms. Everybody had livestock of one sort or another,” said Gilbert.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Given the challenges in an industry dominated by factory farms, such as slim profit margins and little control over pricing and markets, between 52 percent and 79 percent of small family farms are at high financial risk. We only have 45 acres, which is a really small farm around here,” says Larson.

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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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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

JULY 4, 2024

Some of the different practices we use include: diverse crop rotation, cover crops, intercropping, low chemical use, biological fertilizer and seed treatment, soil amendments, and livestock incorporation. Why farming? AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre.

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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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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Instead, we are fall ridging for potatoes directly into grain stubble, using our irrigation to get the soil to the right moisture, to enable a single pass. They don’t treat any of their grain seed, along with some varieties of their potatoes. “As Our fall ridger has a valmar that we use to seed a multi-species cover crop.”

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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. In On Gold Hill , Moyer weaves together her attempt to grow the grain with the story she unearths of her family through the generations.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas. Rollins spent summers working on her familys farm in Minnesota and participated in all levels of 4-H and FFA. Growth Energy Hawaii Farm Bureau Houston Safari Club Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc.

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NASDA

APRIL 4, 2025

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Idaho Grain Producers Association IL Corn Growers Association Illinois Farm Bureau Illinois Seed Trade Association, Inc.

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