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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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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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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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

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

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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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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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 30, 2024

agriculture is a hot one, but it’s primarily discussed at the farm and processing level. Both are critical topics, as monopolies in the meatpacking industry or the disappearing American family farm have significant impacts on the present and future of our food system. The topic of consolidation in U.S. Number of U.S.

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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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Farming becomes another form of public service, where veterans can continue their commitment to their country by nurturing the land and feeding communities. Farming aligns with the skills, service mindset, and resilience they bring, especially since about 60 percent of active-duty personnel come from rural communities, Emily explains.

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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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 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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National Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Whether it’s Bill Gates’ buy-up of farmland or foreign speculative investments in rural America, the common denominator driving farmland consolidation is the corporate structures underpinning these land grabs.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The SFT’s Global Farm Metric emphasises the value of a thriving local community as being ‘vital for farmers, their families and their workers’. While these networks remain strong in many ways, there are also vulnerabilities due to the erosion of local services and infrastructure within rural communities.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

Now many are calling for solutions to help support beginning farmers and revitalize rural communities. It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” beef processing and 67 percent of pork processing, and only four corporations control 65 percent of the global agrochemicals market.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The dugouts remained low throughout most of the summer, not only on their family farm, but on the majority of farms in southern and central Alberta. Learn more about WR Grazing The post Generating Resiliency on the Ranch in the Face of Drought—WR Grazing—Irricana, Alberta appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Outside of the University he owns and operates a cottage-food business, Vulcan Mine Bakery, where he bakes and provides free business consultations for rural redevelopment initiatives. Jack’s Solar Farm is the largest active produce-producing agrivoltaics project in the United States, (some grazing-based arrays can be larger.)

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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

Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980’s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbors, Barons takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth. It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. Fertilizer is one of the most consolidated industries in agriculture; today, four companies control 75 percent of the fertilizer market.

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