Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year.

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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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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

International Trade Commission to consider the impacts that tariffs on Moroccan shipments of fertilizers are having on family farms. I am grateful to my medical team, my family, everyone I work with and represent in Congress. The collaboration establishes JCB as the Official Heavy Equipment Partner of Monster Jam.

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Plowing Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 45

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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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s where an oversized welcome sign to rural Pierson, Florida, flanked on each side with American flags, greets visitors right across from a local feed store. His family farm is located not far from FernTrust and he shares similar concerns about the industry. “If In other fields, the environment is manufactured.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In 1985, tractor manufacturers adopted a voluntary standard to include ROPS and seatbelts on all new tractors over 20 horsepower. 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. “Rollovers can happen anywhere.

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