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. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 5, 2023

During the growing season of 2023, Rural Routes to Climate Solutions teamed up with Regeneration Canada to connect with agricultural producers across Canada who are tackling the pressing social and environmental crises through the adoption of regenerative agriculture. One such farm is Axten Farms, situated in Minton, Saskatchewan.

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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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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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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? The retailers and food companies don’t even refer to buying crops anymore. They call themselves “offtakers”, which rather summarises their parasitic attitude toward the farmers.

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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

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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Agwired

AUGUST 18, 2023

Farm Credit Association American AgCredit , rural banking partner CoBank, and The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, also known as Farmer Mac, are donating $40,000 to Maui Food Bank to help aid during the devastating wildfires that are wreaking havoc in Hawaii.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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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.” As the average age of farmers continues to rise, our nation faces an unprecedented generational transfer of farmland.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980’s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbors, Barons takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth. It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms.

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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 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

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA. agricultural policy.

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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 Many rural residents also rely on private, personal well systems, which aren’t regulated for contaminants, to source their water. ppm for nitrates. Tesdell’s is 80.

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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’. Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Although all of the companies mentioned above want to shift more beef production toward systems that employ regenerative grazing, eliminate the need for commodity grain as feed, and produce healthier meat, they have very different ideas about how to create success in the industry. it’s smaller than the Matador,” he said.

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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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Farming Farming Food Pasture 52

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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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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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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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. Edition] By Christopher Hart Hedgelands is a delightful paean to a staple of British life and a critical part of the nation’s rural ecology: the hedge.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We talk about the colleges it bankrolled, such as Duke University; how it paid for the educations of farmers’ children; how it fueled so many towns around rural North Carolina; and how the money tobacco generates is still key to the survival of our economy. So, you know, it got to a point where we had to go out.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

We represent farmers, ranchers, growers, hunters, forest owners, conservationists, cooperatives, state departments of agriculture, renewable fuel producers and agribusinesses nationwide encompassing all aspects of American agriculture, food, nutrition and rural America and we look forward to Ms. Rollins strong leadership at the U.S.

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NASDA

APRIL 4, 2025

We are confident that Judge Vadens leadership alongside Secretary Brooke Rollins will ensure USDA remains a strong advocate for farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, and rural communities. Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Idaho Grain Producers Association IL Corn Growers Association Illinois Farm Bureau Illinois Seed Trade Association, Inc.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Where to Get Local Grain Looking for a supplier of local grain near you? Ajamian and others established the guild in 2020 to provide a community for a new generation of millers who draw inspiration from historic practices and try to help restore regional grain economies that have been lost to industrialization.

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