Family Farming Pasture Pesticide 
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I sold pesticides for 10 years, and now I don’t. Trisha grew up farming with her family, and she knew she would one day raise her own family on a farm. We don’t have to hire multiple people to run the farm.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Pasture-raised”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.
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Farmbrite
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S. used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora.
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. We see that in the worsening of herbicide resistance in weeds and increased need for pesticides that never actually solve pest problems.
Modern Farmer
JUNE 6, 2024
The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide. They worry about the inconveniences it might cause to production.
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. We see that in the worsening of herbicide resistance in weeds and increased need for pesticides that never actually solve pest problems.
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