Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A versatile system, the Amiga allows for m ultiple adaptations and additions, from towing to mechanical weeding and planting to harvesting and mounting cameras for data capture. The post 2023 Small Farm Innovation Challenge Winners appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It was on Janssen’s family farm in the state’s Ozark Mountains where her uncle rolled his tractor—which had no ROPS—into a ravine in the 1980s. trillion farm bill. The funding mechanism that’s most ideally aligned with providing rebates and funding the program would be USDA,” Sorensen said. “To

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Being strategic includes setting up mechanisms of holding the organization accountable to accomplish these tasks and goals. Timelines, performance indicators, and assignment of duties and responsibilities all hold the organization accountable for the success of the farm. Department of Agriculture, 98% of all farms in the U.S.

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Caff

MAY 31, 2023

Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Locke Ranch on May 23rd. Chris and Christy Locke share the history of Locke Ranch and their participation in the original BIOS project.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In a nutshell, Borlaug’s Green Revolution was America’s investment in industrial models for food production after WW2: hybrid seeds, genetic modification, mono-culture, selective breeding, mechanization, and chemicals. The 1980s Farm Crisis cemented the elimination of the sustainable American family farm.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The harvester has a vibrating mechanism that shakes the berries off the branches and collects them onto a conveyor. “We usually have full blossom around the 1st of June,” explains Rick. In the area designated for commercial production, they use a harvester up and down the rows that bends the branches into the machine.

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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. If we aspire to make farming and food production sustainable and resilient in the long term, then farming, nature and the welfare of all people involved, all need to go hand-in-hand.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

At a time when the effects of climate change on farmers are becoming ever more apparent and the country is losing small and mid-sized family farms at a rapidly increasing rate, the FFNSA maintains the status quo. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Agricultural aid is the only substantial support for the farming, and in turn, the rural environment. In the past the farming industry has provided: The bulk of jobs in the countryside – farmworkers, contractors, wagon drivers and mechanics. INTENSIFICATION Modern farming is intensive.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the National Family Farm Coalition points out, Focusing only on foreign ownership distracts from an overarching trend of rising corporate investment in farmland, largely driven by U.S-based Instead, the Senate bill includes provisions focused on data collection and research of foreign ownership of farmland (Sec.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Appalachian White Wheat at Brown Family Farms in Warren Co, NC. Red Tail Grains has benefited from a few small local government and nonprofit grants—as well as Allen’s mechanical aptitude, which means he can fix older but more affordable equipment—but that support hasn’t come close to covering the full costs of machinery.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the same time, the US is losing small and mid sized family farms at a rapidly increasing rate. The effects of climate change on farmers are becoming ever more apparent. Finally, equally disappointing in both the House and Senate bills is the focus on what they classify as “high-priority research”.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said. Against all odds, their family farm has persisted, part of the just 1 percent of remaining Black-owned farms in the United States. Albert Johnson Jr. Albert Johnson Sr.

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The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. The PCR test is a mechanism to genetically amplify material to find floating pieces or particles of something.

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