Family Farming Manure Technology 
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 28, 2024
Given the extreme weather that farmers and ranchers are experiencing nationwide, the farm bill should preserve the original intent of the IRA by reallocating funding only to those conservation programs that have the greatest potential to help farmers mitigate climate change right now. 2202, 2204, 2302).
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Todays Farmer Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Britt Farms is a true success story of conservation across multiple generations, and they are eager to adopt and share new conservation technologies,” said Scott Edwards, state conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Ryan works with his two sisters to preserve the family farm for future generations.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 28, 2023
Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land. Payne’s family farm is a microcosm of American agriculture’s monocrop past and its changing future.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
However, it is not at all clear that the crop insurance policies disproportionately favor large-scale agribusiness, and indeed nearly all of the political rhetoric around crop insurance is routinely (and generally sincerely) framed around a narrative of saving the “family farm.”
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. NSAC sees this as a commendable use of RCPP and we fully support the inclusion of this purpose in a final farm bill.
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. Over the past 20 years, aided by leaps in technology, botanists have uncovered plant behaviors that challenge our very idea of what a plant is.
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