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. What class of livestock are they? Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

Pasture 105

Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

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.

Farming 122

Farming Farming Acre Marketing 122

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

She farms 1.5 She dry farms tomatoes and winter squash on one property which sits low in the ground and typically floods every winter. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.” This year, for the first time in the twelve years Caiti has farmed, a seasonal pond on the land did not fill.

Family Farming 52

Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Im very proud of that.

Agriculture 74

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 74

Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Episode One: Farmin’ and Football with Josh Allen Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills quarterback, sat down with host Pat Spinosa to talk about what it was like growing up on his family farm—and the support he got from his dad when he decided to pursue a career in sports. “[My My dad] knew what he was doing when he was raising me as a kid.

Ruralism 59

Ruralism Farming Farming Tractor 59

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. Instead, they use antibiotics made for livestock they buy from a veterinarian or feed store. Family members share that risk.

Ranching 99

Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

And then she saw it, right here on the wall of her childhood home: an aerial photograph of her own familys farm the house, the old barn, the windbreak of redcedar trees, and these same fields in summer green. Almost every farmhouse in America has a photo like this hanging on its walls just another member of the family, as it were.

Family Farming 72

Family Farming Farming Farming Ruralism 72