Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2024

Local Foods Mohawk Valley (LFMV), located in Clinton, New York, wants to forge a future for online farmers’ markets in a post pandemic world. Online farmers’ markets grew in popularity nationwide at the height of COVID-19 as consumers craved localism at socially safe distances, according to eMarketer.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly A second dairy unit set up on neighbouring arable land has given two brothers a long-term future on their Leicestershire family farm Martin Wade and his sons, George and Ben, ran at Honeypot Farm, a 350-cow dairy unit between Market Harborough and Lutterworth.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Naja-Riese, executive director of the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) , has been named the 2023 Farmers Market Champion of the Year, an annual recognition awarded by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF).

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by 72 percent, while the average farm size nearly tripled. Independent family farms are the bedrock of healthy rural economies,” says Treakle.

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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

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 10, 2023

The primary focus of the Agricultural Competition partnership is to identify market structures and practices that hinder competition among farmers, food processors, farm suppliers, and related industries. By rooting out such practices, the program aims to protect consumers from unfair pricing and ensure transparency in the market.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Niman Ranch farmers uphold high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices, and in return, they receive a guaranteed market for their pork products at a premium. Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Photo credit: Sanctuary Farms This month, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced more than $300 million in awards to 50 projects focused on increasing underserved farmers and ranchers’ access to land, markets, and capital.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

“Every day we hear from more farmers who are losing access to irrigation water, which is threatening the very farms that are growing food for local communities,” said Dave Runsten, CAFF’s policy director. “If If we don’t help these farmers there will be no one to go to farmer’s markets or deliver CSA boxes.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joshua Cave, Cave Family Farm in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. These findings highlight the economic impact of programs like those within the Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) that support the development of markets for local, regional, and value-added products, and direct to consumer sales.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The McClearys raised pigs for generations, but they were forced to get out of the hog business—like many of their neighbors—during the hog market crash of 1998. family farmers and ranchers that uphold high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. It gave us a lot more freedom that way,” says McCleary. “It

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“When I start my own farm, I will need to have off-farm income to live a balanced, happy life.” When I started Jupiter Ridge Farm in 2017, I did—and still do, like many traditional family farms. Why is running a small-scale farm more like an expensive hobby? Farming] has to exist,” says Scheibel.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. Luckily, his father was just about to retire. “To

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Caff

APRIL 20, 2022

This Farm to Market Handbook is designed to help the family farm access markets. It provides information, selling tips and internet links to top informational sites for the five major marketing channels. Use the buttons at the bottom to flip through this online book.

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Caff

APRIL 20, 2022

This Farm to Market Handbook is designed to help the family farm access markets. It provides information, selling tips and internet links to top informational sites for the five major marketing channels. Use the buttons at the bottom to flip through this online book.

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Caff

AUGUST 22, 2022

Today the USDA halted an Almond Board rule change that would have prohibited direct online sales of raw almonds, which farmers had previously been pursuing as part of the roadside stand and farmers’ market exemption. In 1985, this roadside stand exemption was expanded to include farmers’ markets.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

While he was fighting President Reagan’s attempt to gut the New Deal Farm Bill, Senator Harkin pointed to a study that compared two agricultural communities: one composed mostly of family farms and another crowded with giant corporate producers.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It The same year that Carman returned to her family farm, a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, was detected in the US.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The PCC DBII is one of four such initiatives across the country, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

This affects our supply chain and commodity pricing, leading to an increasingly volatile market. Leverage the “Ugly” Food Market As many as 58 percent of consumers said they would opt for “ugly” produce if it was offered at a discount, according to a 2021 survey. As of 2023, the USDA reported a total refrigerated storage capacity of 3.7

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Caff

MARCH 24, 2022

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Recently, they’ve started selling their products virtually, on a consolidated market site. Initially, the plan was to rotate other responsibilities such as marketing and social media among the participating farms. The self-proclaimed Northeastern Online Farmers’ Market offers local products from more than 25 farms.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The tips are especially helpful for folks hoping to make a go of farming on smaller plots of land. 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.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

But our ability to bring these transformative crops to market was just dealt a major blow. The lawsuit, brought by anti-bioengineering activists (pretending to be worried about family farms), reinstates a regulatory framework in place since 1986, while the technology was only in its infancy and not yet even commercially available.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Harvest of the Month involves rural food hubs in sourcing supplies of fresh produce from local family farms. The program not only offers stable new markets for farmers, but also improves residents’ health and contributes to making working conditions better for staff.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But wanting to pass on her legacy, she worked with 3 of her mentees, assisting them in raising capital from the community that she helped build to purchase the farm, launching the first worker-owned cooperative CSA on the north coast. Her legacy lives on in how they now care for that land and each other.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes. Kiawah River is an “agrihood”—a planned community with a working farm at its center.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Niman Ranch farmers and ranchers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices, and in exchange, they receive a guaranteed market for their product and access to a network of resources. In 2022 lamb market prices fell by more than 50 percent across the U.S. “If lamb only for distributors that require it.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Community Farmers Markets (CFM) Serving as an umbrella organization, CFM was established to meet the demand for more efficiently managed, community-based and sustainable farmers’ markets in Atlanta. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

While this was common practice in the 1970s and 80s, the hog market consolidation and high land prices mean it’s no longer financially feasible for independent farmers to raise hogs and sell on the open market, and it’s extremely rare to see hogs outside of a confinement environment, the Boors say.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 3, 2024

That compares to a 19 percent decline in net farm income last year and a 23.5 Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) on Monday urged Congress to provide emergency economic assistance to agricultural producers facing market losses. percent decrease in net cash income.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Farm Forward recently published a major investigative report detailing systematic animal suffering and consumer fraud at Alexandre Family Farm—a leading large-scale organic dairy company with “well over 9,000 head of cattle,” according to co-owner Blake Alexandre—whose products are covered in certification labels.

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