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Release: Strengthening Local Meat Economies Act Promotes Fairness in Procurement

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

“USDA has the opportunity to infuse rural meat economies with hundreds of millions of dollars in new demand that will support local meat processors and independent ranchers,” stated Aaron Johnson, Program Manager, Challenging Corporate Power Program at Rural Advancement Foundation International, RAFI- USA.

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Exiting the Factory Farm

Modern Farmer

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We

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Animal Ag News 12/26

Agwired

In a year marked by significant challenges for small family farms and rural communities, Organic Valley , the largest cooperative of organic farmers in the nation, is not just seeking more milk but actively welcoming more farmers. Poultry & Egg Association ’s Harold E.

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Farmers Need Help to Survive. A New Crop of Farm Advocates Is on the Way.

Civil Eats

It was by a stroke of luck that Alvarado learned about North Carolina-based Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI), a nonprofit which helps farmers in tough situations free of charge. Bunting, now 79, runs a family farm with his son in Oak City, North Carolina, where he once raised poultry and hogs and now grows hemp and corn.

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Animal Ag News 11/25

Agwired

USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. The program will feature economic industry experts offering their insights on the current state of the global poultry industry and their forecasts for 2025. on Wednesday, Jan.

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Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. 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. There were a lot of comments.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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