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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the book, we meet Brandon Kaufman, a Kansas farmer who, after generations of family farming, plans “to get a divorce from wheat” to focus on perennials as a way to nurture the soil and the vital underground network of insects and microorganisms within it. Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Conservation and Climate The benefits of on-farm conservation programs are widespread.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Edition] By Christopher Hart Hedgelands is a delightful paean to a staple of British life and a critical part of the nation’s rural ecology: the hedge.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Farmers, media, and rural leaders gathered at Crescent Meats in Cadott to learn more about the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program and the area’s designation as a Rural Partners Network community. Theo Scholze of Scholze Family Farms in Humbird is among those who will benefit from the Crescent Meats expansion.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

We represent farmers, ranchers, growers, hunters, forest owners, conservationists, cooperatives, state departments of agriculture, renewable fuel producers and agribusinesses nationwide encompassing all aspects of American agriculture, food, nutrition and rural America and we look forward to Ms. Rollins strong leadership at the U.S.

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Agwired

MARCH 10, 2025

Troy Sander , a Kansas cattle producer and president of the Kansas Livestock Association, appeared before the House Agriculture Committee urging policymakers to pass a Farm Bill, pass tax legislation to protect family farms and ranches, and strengthen policies that protect our food security. MBK Farms in Colcord, Okla.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. In comparison to the enormous opportunity that sustainable and organic agriculture represents for farmers and rural communities, federal investment in related research, education, and extension has been minuscule.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an array of programs aimed at farmers growing food that supports rural communities and the environment, but its own purchasing has long revolved around sourcing the cheapest foods available. In 2022, the USDA spent more than $60 million on pork and chicken from JBS and its poultry company, Pilgrim’s Pride.

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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 4306) TITLE VI: Rural Development GREEN FLAG Reaffirms commitment to vital rural development initiatives.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

America’s farmers and their families. According to a new report , uninsured rates in rural America have been cut nearly in half since President Obama signed the ACA—commonly referred to as “Obamacare”—into law in 2010. The researchers also found that, while rural residents make up 14 percent of the U.S.

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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. The USDA also began stockpiling vaccines for poultry. Under his tenure, the U.S. Bidens USDA also invested $2.2

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