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. In just a few years, Chris has shown that even a new farm can have a lasting impact.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. Customers who buy their eggs at the farmer’s market in downtown Hamilton or who swing through their farm store can pick up a carton with a very simple design.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? Do you rely on government subsidies to keep the business going?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In addition, they may have been told that the carbon emissions for each litre of milk produced by intensively managed ‘fully housed’ cows, is less than the emissions from lower-yielding, mainly grass-fed cows – in other words, the cows that I and thousands of other dairy farmers look after on our family 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. Farm Hounds jerky. Customers couldn’t get enough of the local grass-farmed treats.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Last year, when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees in southwestern Kansas, roughly 2,000 cattle in the state died; the Kansas Livestock Association estimated each cow to be worth $2,000 if they were market-ready, equaling an economic loss of $4 million. We’re rethinking the farm process based on climate predictions,” Payne said.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

In 1909, he named the land “Valley View Ranch” — a name that Rod and Beth, along with their children, who represent the next generation of farmers on the family ranch, have preserved and continued to date. “We Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Add in all the other family members who contribute to the farm in some way or another, and you’re looking at an eon of cumulative experience and commitment. From producing their own compost to managing a CSA to selling direct at farmers markets all over Southern California, J.R.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

CalCAN is one of hundreds of sustainable, organic, and family farming organizations across the country that is engaged in farm bill advocacy this year. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. agriculture by the year 2040.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. As one gets closer to the Quimbayo Gutiérrez family farm, the landscape begins to change. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. California’s small, pasture-based, organic dairies—many of which are clustered on the state’s North Coast—have a lighter environmental footprint, and they contribute just a sliver of the industry’s overall methane emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

In the US, for example, organic milk producer Albert Straus works with a group of small family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Langford Farm, run by Teresa and Charlie Allward, was one of the farms involved in the pilot. Currently, this is not always understood or captured effectively by the market mechanisms.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Multi-species Cropping—Experimenting with Crop Trials Using 28 Varieties Before Tim came back to the farm, his uncle Doug had been experimenting for a couple of years with winter grazing of multi-species cropping—relying on a handful of different plants—for improved pasture and cattle outcomes. “We

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? Do you rely on government subsidies to keep the business going?

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

Family farms are the backbone of our food system. More than 90 percent of farms—about 500 million—are run either by individual or family labor! billion people worldwide are involved in family farming, and these operations produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food value, according to U.N. More than 1.5

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. And it is no accident.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Bramble Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Brent and Anna Wills Bedford County, Virginia Bramble Hollow Farm is owned and operated by Brent and Anna Wills and is located along the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bedford County. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

Fresno Freedom School About: Fresno Freedom School is an urban vegetable farm and job-skills program investing in Fresno’s African-American youth. Luna's Farm About : Luna’s Farm is a multi-generational Latinx family farm growing organic vegetables in California’s Central Coast region. Farmers: Dr. Floyd D.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 16, 2025

Hed grown up on his familys farm in Veracruz, Mexico, helping to tend the dairy herd and other animals. Hed started working at a Wisconsin farm owned by Joe Tomandl III, who practices a type of dairying called managed grazing. Photography via Taste Profit Marketing. Photography via Taste Profit Marketing.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

GusNIP funds programs that give SNAP users access to more fruits and vegetables, especially through farmers’ market matching and produce prescription programs. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill. production has not kept pace.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

GusNIP funds programs that give SNAP users access to more fruits and vegetables, especially through farmers’ market matching and produce prescription programs. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill. production has not kept pace.

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