RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. It’s truly a family business,” says Graydon. It increases nutrient transference and cuts back on our synthetic inputs.”

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. “I’m

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. 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.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides.

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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. Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We’re on a mission to celebrate Rural America—and we’re just getting started. In just half a year, podcast host Pat Spinosa and team collaborated with homegrown stars with rural beginnings across the nation to create nine episodes filled with stories of perseverance, grit, and a bit of anecdotal humor.

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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. Image by Antonio Paz.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

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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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Learn more about Redtail Farms – www.redtailfarms.ca The post Farming With Nature — Redtail Farms, Castor, Alberta appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post Farming With Nature — Redtail Farms, Castor, Alberta appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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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.” David Peters, Professor of Agricultural and Rural Policy at Iowa State University. “A Meanwhile, the average age of U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

Family farms are the backbone of our food system. More than 90 percent of farms—about 500 million—are run either by individual or family labor! billion people worldwide are involved in family farming, and these operations produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food value, according to U.N. More than 1.5

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” But they have to be big.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA. agricultural policy.

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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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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 was recently introduced by U.S. This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. This bill builds on the framework she shared earlier this year, with even more concrete proposals aimed at boosting rural communities and supporting farmers.

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

agriculture, food systems, and rural communities.” This overuse of fertilizer and chemicals saps our food of nutrients and causes vast environmental damage — pumping carbon into the atmosphere, polluting waterways, and hampering farming and daily life. As farmers, we are concerned. Become a member today by clicking here.

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