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.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.

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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.

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Caff

MAY 1, 2023

Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Chinchiolo Farms on April 20th. Emily Ayala and Hanna Kahl introduce CAFF and the Ecological Pest Management Program.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 12, 2024

It follows the stories of three young farmers in the UK: Anna, who left a career as a photographer to come back to the family farm and work with her father; Adrienne, a new entrant farmer looking to grow veg; and Ben, who grew up on a dairy farm, and now raises a herd of Belted Galloways on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, using regenerative practices.

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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. 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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Members huddled under a covered pavilion for live music, farm-fresh food, and local brew from Odd13 Brewing , while the rain poured down. Ollin Farms is run by farmers Kena and Mark who believe deeply in the principles of sustainable agriculture. They also have a farm stand.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

“It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” Between 1935 and 2023, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by 72 percent, while the average farm size nearly tripled. Independent family farms are the bedrock of healthy rural economies,” says Treakle.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 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 based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Through some of their key campaigns they have advocated for better heat regulations, overtime pay, protection from pesticides, and immigration rights. World Rural Forum (WRF) , International WRF is a global network dedicated to advancing family farming and sustainable rural development.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Harold had a big “aha moment” when he was introduced to the practices of Brendan Rockey, a regenerative potato farmer in Colorado , who is significantly reducing reliance on pesticides and fungicides, and in turn, planting companion crops, green manure and cover crops, and integrating livestock to add nutrients back into the soil.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A report earlier this month found that while small, family farms produce a third of the world’s food, they have received less than 1 percent of international financing aimed at expanding climate-smart agriculture. Why Aren’t Federal Agencies Enforcing Pesticide Rules That Protect Farmworkers? Who Benefits?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms. Photo courtesy of Lundberg Family Farms.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

And then she saw it, right here on the wall of her childhood home: an aerial photograph of her own familys farm the house, the old barn, the windbreak of redcedar trees, and these same fields in summer green. Almost every farmhouse in America has a photo like this hanging on its walls just another member of the family, as it were.

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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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Trimble Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2025

A native of Union City, Tennessee, Vaden maintains a close connection to the farming community, helping manage his familys farm. Farm Bill Implementation Vaden helped pass the 2018 farm bill, and hes expected to push for further development of programs introduced, including conservation efforts and risk management tools.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Agriculture was the first industry mentioned, and the ways in which consolidation was driving the loss of small family farms became one of Vilsacks most-cited talking points throughout the administration. Under his tenure, the U.S. Its unclear if that strategy will remain in place under Trump.

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