Civil Eats

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was by a stroke of luck that Alvarado learned about North Carolina-based Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI), a nonprofit which helps farmers in tough situations free of charge. Bunting, now 79, runs a family farm with his son in Oak City, North Carolina, where he once raised poultry and hogs and now grows hemp and corn.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Last fall, Ava Taesali opened Kava Queen , Oahus only brick-and-mortar kava bar, after three years of building a loyal following for this traditional beverage at farmers markets in Honolulu. There are so many misconceptions about kava, Taesali said, adding that official recognition is key to changing the narrative. And in the U.S.,

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

These investments, particularly those in rural communities, have enabled farmers to expand their operations and strengthen their businesses. Farms Together really gave us hope for the future of our farm. It took so much to get our farm started and Farms Together was really the push that helped us make ends meet.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. However, it only appears that way because of the astronomical loss of farms earlier in the century. No one else is going to do this work for you.

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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 ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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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

Being a naive kid, living in rural America…you get burned out on a community that you know everybody in and you don’t take it for what it is. By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. I was just working [on the farm] all the time and loved it.

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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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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world. Most land in Iowa is not even farmed by owners anymore. 82 The phrase “free market” takes on a dark double meaning when you realize that these farmers earn so little that they are practically working for free.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Small farms tend to be more diversified than large-scale operations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This blog post outlines the funding guidelines, application deadlines, and program requirements for a range of food and farm system grants funded through USDA that are currently accepting applications. Proposed projects must demonstrate creating or expanding into a market and an increase in farm revenue.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Strengthening Local Meat Economies Act is a bill designed to support independent small and very small processors by promoting fairness in US Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat procurement and reinvesting in local meat markets.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood. As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built?

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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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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

“The Farm Bill touches the lives of virtually every American and is vital to our state’s economy,” said Senator Smith. The bills that I am introducing today will help beginning farmers access land and develop markets for their products, two of the biggest issues I have heard during my Farm Bill listening sessions around the state.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. The land has been in our family since 1892, but the ownership hasn’t exactly been “linear.” I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We

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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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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, achieving this goal has become increasingly difficult in today’s competitive market. farm real estate, valued at over $3 trillion in 2023, represents more than 80 percent of the total assets in the U.S. farm sector , making it a key resource that farmers can leverage to build a financially resilient operation.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

[They hear] from Big Ag that these contracts and these growers, they’re building strong rural economies and creating jobs and feeding the world, etc. They also have a list of questions you can ask producers if you have the opportunity, such as at the farmers market.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

These conditions seriously tested the effectiveness of the 2018 Farm Bill, and it was only by the aggressive use of supplemental assistance that many farms survived. The outlook for farm country at this current point is even more daunting. USDA forecasts the U.S. billion this year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? As I’ve listened to all these news bulletins, I’ve tried to put myself in the place of the farmers who are protesting and I actually do feel a certain degree of empathy with them.

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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 It’s a system that we feel currently fits our family’s lifestyle and also meets the business and management goals,” says Rod.

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Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a slight reduction in both sales volume and value growth within the ag real estate market. That trend has continued into the first half of 2023 with fewer properties being offered for sale and market values that, while still strong, are dramatically off the pace seen in the first half of 2022.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

A farm’s strategy should include answers on what activities you plan to enact in your organization to maintain internal processes, serve customers, adapt to market forces, and create products and services. Department of Agriculture, 98% of all farms in the U.S. According to the U.S ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. However, it only appears that way because of the astronomical loss of farms earlier in the century. No one else is going to do this work for you.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

By partnering with local and state organizations, he’s made his operation a key part of emergency food distribution programs reaching schools, families, and organizations in Tulare County with culturally appropriate food especially for rural regions comprised of farmworkers and other immigrant and under-served communities.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Awards will be bestowed during the conclusion of the California Small Farm Conference on February 28, a free event featuring keynote speaker, Nikki Silvestri. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr. started farming as a form of self-transformation and restoration.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. 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. Agroforestry systems on the Amazonian Farms.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. Nominees may be persons who are currently active or those who have moved on to other endeavors. The award is open to persons in sales, circulation, production and editorial. on Wednesday, Jan.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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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. But at this point, I don’t think we have any silver bullets anymore.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture. Despite experiencing a spring with no rain, he has persisted and is increasingly finding markets for his nuts.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

The Increasing Land Access, Security, and Opportunities Act expands upon the novel Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program (LCM), which the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) introduced in August 2022 as a one-time funding opportunity.

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