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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two years ago, the family experimented by starting to farrow their mother pigs on pasture rather than inside barns. Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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Young Farmers Bring Small-scale, Humane Hog Farming Back to Iowa

Food Tank

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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The 2024 Farm Champions!

Caff

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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Moving into the Agrihood

Modern Farmer

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. 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.

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The unseen costs of Tesco’s milk cutbacks: A threat to smaller dairies as mega-farms expand

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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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