Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

America’s recent history with farming in the Midwest sees a change from horse-and-ploughs to tractors during the 1930s and 40s – especially after World War 2. This is my own family history: before I was born, we traded teams of horses for an Allis-Chalmers. This doesn’t mean that 500 families lost their entire farms.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. There were 141,733 fewer farms in the US in 2022 than in 2017, according to the Census of Agriculture. Is there a way to make healthier dog food that won’t burden the planet so much? 5000 list the past two years.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

AMPI) Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Austin Chapter 10 IWLA BASF Corporation Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Chinchiolo Farms on April 20th. Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

Ieuan Edwards is the youngest of three brothers who grew up on the family farm in the Conwy Valley in North Wales. Ieuan was 13-years-old when his father told him the farm wasn’t big enough for three boys and he would have to go into another business. The origin of the word ‘manufacture’ implies ‘made by hand’.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

International Trade Commission to consider the impacts that tariffs on Moroccan shipments of fertilizers are having on family farms. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with 57 agriculture organizations including 22 state corn grower groups, urged the U.S.

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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. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Naoki Nitta The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them By Karla T.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In agriculture, nothing is one size fits all, so the adoption of systems has to be realistic for each particular kind of crop, said Renee Pinel, president of Western Plant Health , a nonprofit trade organizationthat represents the interests of fertilizer and pesticide manufacturers. Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins spent summers working on her familys farm in Minnesota and participated in all levels of 4-H and FFA. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas. Apple Association U.S. Beet Sugar Association U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2023

But federal trade agreements, such as the Andean Trade Preferences and Drug Eradication Act and the US–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, were implemented and supported by subsidies to foreign governments to plant flower fields instead of trading in drug manufacturing and trade. In other fields, the environment is manufactured.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 10, 2025

Longer term, we can rebuild rural America with family farms that are producing healthy, nutritious food. In this severely imbalanced playing field, industry wins again and again. Senator Bernie Sanders posted on Facebook Sanders Statement on How to Make America Healthy Again.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Another example: The International Tobacco Growers Association, set up and run by cigarette manufacturers, lobbied in Indonesia in 2010 against a ban on additives in tobacco manufacturing, claiming that it would harm the livelihood of farmers. Tobacco manufacturing jobs—de-stemming leaves, making cigarettes—accounted for only 1.6

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Two states voted on whether to end forced labor in prisons, which often involves farming or food manufacturing: Nevada’s voters said yes , while California’s said no. In South Dakota, voters said no to a ballot option that would have repealed taxes on groceries.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Agriculture was the first industry mentioned, and the ways in which consolidation was driving the loss of small family farms became one of Vilsacks most-cited talking points throughout the administration. Under his tenure, the U.S.

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