Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 30, 2024

agriculture is a hot one, but it’s primarily discussed at the farm and processing level. Both are critical topics, as monopolies in the meatpacking industry or the disappearing American family farm have significant impacts on the present and future of our food system. The topic of consolidation in U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We We started to see all these family farms just disappearing,” he says.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

These investments, particularly those in rural communities, have enabled farmers to expand their operations and strengthen their businesses. Farms Together really gave us hope for the future of our farm. It took so much to get our farm started and Farms Together was really the push that helped us make ends meet.

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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.,

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population. Climate resilience requires broad participation from the most vulnerable farmers who are rural women dependent on natural resources for their well-being. Smallholder farmers engaging in agroecology need what regenerative farmers in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

In part one and part two of our series on transitioning out of factory farming, we heard from both farmers who have made or are making the transition, as well as the organizations that support producers through this process. Connect with Craig, or learn more about SRAP, here. Tyler Whitley.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Challenges and Barriers of Rural Land Ownership Before jumping to the solution, we must first properly understand the three biggest hurdles standing in the aspiring landowner’s way. Several nonprofit organizations also support farmers in navigating the lease-to-own process. agricultural industry.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. However, it only appears that way because of the astronomical loss of farms earlier in the century.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

These investments, particularly those in rural communities, have enabled farmers to expand their operations and strengthen their businesses. Farms Together really gave us hope for the future of our farm. It took so much to get our farm started and Farms Together was really the push that helped us make ends meet.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

By Hakeem Holmes, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Farming—one of the world’s oldest professions—encompasses enterprises that individuals start for multitude of different purposes, whether for desire for self-sufficiency, environmental stewardship, family tradition, or entrepreneurial ventures.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO On-Farm Research While CAFF’s preliminary on-farm research trials have wrapped up, we’ve continued to visit no-till farms in Northern California in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Agroecology Lab.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. “Having worked with farmers for over 20 years, “they do have an attachment to their equipment,” she said. Missouri has the highest number of fatal tractor incidents nationwide.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne’s family farm is a microcosm of American agriculture’s monocrop past and its changing future. We’re rethinking the farm process based on climate predictions,” Payne said. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, the ideal temperature for beef and dairy cows ranges between 44 and 77 degrees.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. The award is open to persons in sales, circulation, production and editorial. This year’s forum will be held from 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28-30, 2025, in Atlanta, Ga. will be held on Jan.

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Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

The tour brings the latest information on peanuts while giving a first-hand view of industry infrastructure from production and handling to processing and utilization. Youth members of Farmers Union from around the country participated in the 85th National Farmers Union (NFU) All-States Leadership Retreat.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. However, it only appears that way because of the astronomical loss of farms earlier in the century.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

More than 26,000 customers who submit a Direct Loan application each year can now use an online, interactive, guided application that is paperless and provides helpful features including an electronic signature option, the ability to attach supporting documents such as tax returns, complete a balance sheet and build a farm operating plan.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the fall 2021, CAFF went to the source to find out, conducting a statewide intensive listening process. Learn about our legislative wins here , from food hubs to farmer training programs to sustainable farming practices) WHOSE VOICE? WANNA GET MORE INVOLVED?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The process continues and old machinery becomes obsolete and eventually gets put to sleep on the yard, where the trees will grow through it, leaving behind only the ghost of its embodied energy (and perhaps a few useful spare parts). Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. 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. Agroforestry systems on the Amazonian Farms.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Austin, Ben, and Taylor Larson have moved from farming ryegrass to implementing a diversified orchard; riparian forest; silvopasture with pigs, oaks, and hazelnuts; pastured bison; and native plants. The farm is profiled along with other conservation-minded farmers here.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The August announcement is part of a larger set of efforts underway at the agency to align program expectations and requirements with the best possible long-term outcome for farms served by the agency, and to streamline and automate customer-facing business processes.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Awards will be bestowed during the conclusion of the California Small Farm Conference on February 28, a free event featuring keynote speaker, Nikki Silvestri. LEGACY FARMER Will Scott, Scott Family Farms Will Scott Jr. started farming as a form of self-transformation and restoration.

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Food Tank

JUNE 28, 2024

Now many are calling for solutions to help support beginning farmers and revitalize rural communities. It changes what your vision of a family farm is and how you have to go about getting there.” beef processing and 67 percent of pork processing, and only four corporations control 65 percent of the global agrochemicals market.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

C4 plants undergo photosynthetic process to fix carbon in the plants). The dugouts remained low throughout most of the summer, not only on their family farm, but on the majority of farms in southern and central Alberta. In this fourth plot, they used 28 different varieties of plants in the mix.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. After an investigation and review process, the FTC and the DOJ may enter into a settlement with the companies or take legal action to block the sale.”

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? On our own farm, the processing of our milk into cheese has resulted in the creation of five additional full-time equivalent posts.

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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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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Today, the idea has taken root: they’ve expanded their business into Solstice Berry Farm, a 40-acre orchard, managing 10 acres for a U-Pick operation and 30 acres for commercial production. The Gelowitz’s even established a commercial kitchen to process Saskatoons into jams, jellies, syrups, and pies.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Every economic study you’ve ever seen shows that the way to true prosperity in our country is a vibrant rural economy coupled with a strong small-business infrastructure, not a handful of major mega-corporations. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” it’s smaller than the Matador,” he said.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

And there is also a significant effort going into developing artificial intelligence programs to do everything from identifying and monitoring points of waste in the production process to analyzing demand patterns to increase or reduce production according to anticipated needs across the supply chain.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Ambassador Susan Rice, White House Domestic Policy Advisor, were in the Chippewa Valley Thursday promoting investments in regional meat processing. million MPPEP grant to offset costs for an expansion that will nearly triple the square footage of the facility and double processing capacity.

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