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Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 26, 2023
Farmers Weekly Farming-mad Thomas, aged 9, is pictured following every minute of the harvest at his family farm in Norfolk on board a paddle board. Thomas is a fourth-generation farmer in the making and enjoys “carpet farming” at home, replicating the farming activities with his scale-model toys.
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Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Where I Come From: The mix of emotions at harvest varies depending on who you ask: Dad, Mom, adult children, spouses, on the farm and off.
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Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Slideshow: For Wendte Farms of Altamont, Ill., harvest takes a village — and four generations working together side by side.
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Western FarmPress
JULY 3, 2024
Sara Nicholson reminisces about wheat harvest and why, after 40 years, she keeps coming back. Plus, how she's using TikTok to tell her family's farming story.
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Western FarmPress
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Young farmer enjoys learning about agriculture and participating in family farm business.
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Caff
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?
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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Farmbrite
DECEMBER 12, 2024
This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one. They can use climate gauges and weather information for more accurate planting and harvesting insights.
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Food Tank
MARCH 7, 2025
Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-17); Cathy Strange , Whole Foods Market; Roy Steiner , Rockefeller Foundation; Rick Simington , Organic Valley; Josh Tickell , Common Ground Film; Josh Tranel , Tranel Family Farm; Jeff Travillion , Travis County Commissioner; Alyssa Vescio , Whole Foods Market; Melva K.
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Caff
JULY 19, 2023
On June 29th, Lopes Family Farms hosted a field day with Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) in Princeton, CA focused on rice and duck farming, a Biologically Integrated Farming System (BIFS). For more information on Lopes Family Farm follow them at Lopes Family Farms. *All
Caff
MARCH 11, 2025
Harvestly, a proud Farms Together partner, is bringing the freshest veggies straight to the SLO Food Bank to nourish the community. March started off as a rollercoaster ride when news broke that Farms Together our program delivering food sourced from local farmers to food insecure communities across Californiahad been paused indefinitely.
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Caff
JUNE 29, 2021
She is also worried about the crops currently growing on her farm. “If I’m going to fight to save what I can and harvest as much as possible before it all dies.” “I won’t have any money coming in then.” If my water is shut off, it’s going to be a hard day. This severe drought is going to have detrimental effects.”
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. Harvesting awa requires leaving the corm and lateral roots intact.
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Civil Eats
APRIL 10, 2025
Food Security and Farm Protection Act , introduced by Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) : A revision of the EATS Act that would overturn Californias Proposition 12, which banned selling pork from pigs raised in tight confinement. Its a priority of the National Family Farm Coalition.
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Food Tank
JANUARY 31, 2024
Their online store is open from Wednesday morning through Sunday evening, allowing consumers to shop across categories or farms. Once the order window closes on Sunday evening, farmers have until Tuesday afternoon to harvest and collect order requests on their farms before dropping off their product at a local church in Clinton.
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Caff
MARCH 11, 2025
Farms Together helped us grow our business to where we could purchase a work vehicle and supplies to sustain the farm. Kao Youa Moua, Vang Farming Ventures, Fresno County Harvestly, a proud Farms Together partner, is bringing the freshest veggies straight to the SLO Food Bank to nourish the community.
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Civil Eats
JANUARY 14, 2025
Farm advocates, often farmers themselves, help their neighbors navigate codes and regulationspertaining to things like zoning, food safety, and property rightsthat can save their operations. 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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Trimble Agriculture
APRIL 23, 2024
Labor Cost and Availability In the field, food may go to waste because farmers often lack access to affordable and reliable farm labor for harvesting. “We ” Will Rodger, the director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau. .” Even when farm labor can be sourced, it’s increasingly expensive.
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Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 1, 2023
We lost 10 percent of our saleable Christmas trees that year,” says Leanna Anderson, owner of Aldor Acres Family Farm in Langley, British Columbia and treasurer of the BC Christmas Tree Association. Photo courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm. Photography courtesy of Aldor Acres Farm.
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American Farmland
AUGUST 21, 2023
This region is one of the top producers of blueberries nationwide, as Michigan blueberries are grown, harvested, packed, and processed by 575 family farms annually. This year was the 60th anniversary of the National Blueberry Festival in South Haven, Michigan!
Food Tank
JANUARY 9, 2025
Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. Thats why, following the rice harvest, they flood a portion of their fields that birds can flock to. Farmers have just 24 to 48 hours to effectively pull this off.
Farmbrite
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Whether you have a tractor, farm truck, or combine, you know that efficiently maintaining your farm equipment is crucial for maximizing productivity, prolonging machinery life, and ensuring a safe working environment. Here’s a comprehensive guide to farm equipment care and maintenance to help you maintain your farm equipment properly.
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Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 20, 2024
But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. So its all on me, and its my family farm.
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UnderstandingAg
DECEMBER 31, 2024
In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. The results of dormant grazing will be no better than the management provided.
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Modern Farmer
AUGUST 29, 2023
The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Finding the right fit is part of the trial and error of this, which is educational,” says Leventhal.
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Food Tank
MAY 29, 2024
The flooding demolished food storage, stalled harvests, and damaged soils. Destroyed or obstructed infrastructure is also limiting food transportation and farm operations. And the Instituto Rio Grandense do Arroz estimates that only 84 percent of rice crops had been harvested when the rains began.
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ATTRA
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
California’s Harvest of the Month program aims to serve seasonal, locally grown produce to people who are incarcerated in the state, while opening new opportunities for California farmers. Harvest of the Month involves rural food hubs in sourcing supplies of fresh produce from local family farms.
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Sustainable Food Trust
APRIL 1, 2025
Coming from a background of industrial farming, Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell tried for years to make the family farm viable, but it wasnt until they completely turned away from how they were farming, that things began to change on the estate.
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Food Tank
JANUARY 24, 2024
Whether our crops come to harvest or our livestock make it to market is directly tied to the cycles of nature that we try our best to work within. “A changing climate, characterized by more frequent and severe extreme events such as heatwaves, droughts, and extreme rainfall, will affect U.S. agriculture, food systems, and rural communities.”
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Modern Farmer
JULY 14, 2023
Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. The farm has changed a lot since his grandfather ran it and grew tomatoes and potatoes. Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested. And guess what it replaces?
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Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Yes, I’m currently actively involved in farming, but in defined ways. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm. We need a huge paradigm shift in both the philosophy and the practices of farming.
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Food Tank
JULY 5, 2023
In response, ALAS has developed programs to meet farm workers where they are. ALAS brings gallons of water to Coastside farms once a week and collaborates with several organizations, such as Coastside Hope and Second Harvest Food Bank, to regularly distribute groceries.
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Modern Farmer
JUNE 6, 2024
After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine. Combine or tractor harvesting destroys eggs and can even result in the deaths of birds.
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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. Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. of carbon per acre annually.
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Todays Farmer Magazine
APRIL 2, 2023
The first Farmall was the vision of International Harvester engineer Bert R. During the yearlong 100th anniversary celebration, Case IH will be giving away a brand-new Farmall 75C tractor to one lucky winner who shares his or her passion and story about how Farmall has helped to shape the family farm over the years.
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Agribusiness Blog
MAY 11, 2023
You and your siblings own different pieces of equipment and share the equipment with each other for planting, harvesting, tillage, and transporting crops. 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. If so, you aren’t alone.
RR2CS
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest. Today, the idea has taken root: they’ve expanded their business into Solstice Berry Farm, a 40-acre orchard, managing 10 acres for a U-Pick operation and 30 acres for commercial production. It totally wiped us out,” says Rick. “In
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Caff
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
That was the message that CAFF and thousands of family farmers brought to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) ten years ago when they began hashing out the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). But for a family farm selling to a local grocery store? Unfortunately, it’s a message they need to hear again.
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Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The women are now crew chiefs for the public farm program and oversee four other refugee farmers from Burma and Congo. Doli Wikongo and Bista were also two of New Leaf’s first refugee farmer employees. We also give yearly raises and paid time off.”
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Modern Farmer
MAY 28, 2024
“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas.
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Food Tank
APRIL 2, 2024
They also operate a youth agricultural program to connect young people to the land and teach them about planting, harvesting, and preparing traditional foods. The Common Market Working in four regional hubs, The Common Market is a nonprofit food distributor connecting urban communities with local food grown on family farms.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
He adds that the indigenous Ho-Chunk Nation was among the first to go into these forests to harvest maple sap. “We Agroforestry is family farming, and agriculture is a family and community-based, hands-on activity. We really learned from their traditions and are continuing something that’s been done for millennia.
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CalCAN
AUGUST 10, 2023
Even when our trees have gone through extended periods of time during harvest without water they have never reached permanent wilting point or defoliated. Don’t sell the family farm because you will never get it back. That is one way to give back if you can no longer farm it yourself.
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Agwired
AUGUST 7, 2023
Poultry & Egg Association is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. The award recognizes exemplary environmental stewardship by family farmers engaged in poultry and egg production. We welcome his wealth of experience in, and knowledge of, American beef from farm to fork.
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