Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. There were 141,733 fewer farms in the US in 2022 than in 2017, according to the Census of Agriculture. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

While these programs haven’t always been used to make farms climate resilient, they all have the potential to do so—and more funding and specific guardrails specified within the IRA would make that even more likely. Seth Watkins, a farmer from Clarinda, Iowa, was able to save his family farm with the help of conservation funding.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Plants welcome me in their leafy grace, As part of a process, essential to embrace. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. And in the U.S., For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Despite the resilience of family [farms], the mega-trend is undeniable,” says Raudabaugh. California’s small, pasture-based, organic dairies—many of which are clustered on the state’s North Coast—have a lighter environmental footprint, and they contribute just a sliver of the industry’s overall methane emissions.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Griebel and Dana started out in their first year, experimenting with 12 head of cattle, and nearly decade later, they’re raising 70 head and processing the meat right on the farm. Everything we’ve raised will also die and be processed on the farm.” Griebel’s father used to have a small butcher shop on the farm.

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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. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture?

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

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. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating.

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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.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Multi-species Cropping—Experimenting with Crop Trials Using 28 Varieties Before Tim came back to the farm, his uncle Doug had been experimenting for a couple of years with winter grazing of multi-species cropping—relying on a handful of different plants—for improved pasture and cattle outcomes. “We

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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. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture?

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Michael Sands Rappahannock County, Virginia Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is a multi-generational farm located in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Rappahannock County. Most of their meat sales are sold through their on-farm store.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Meats raised $4 million in funding with the help of Provenance Capital Group, an investment bank that works primarily with extraordinarily wealthy families. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Add to the mix a profoundly divided Congress and big challenges around addressing the climate crisis and hunger facing the country, and it becomes clear why this year’s farm bill process has faced additional stumbling blocks. The National Family Farm Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International support this bill.

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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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