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Revitalizing Rural Communities Means Supporting Small Farms

Food Tank

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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Bringing Youth Back to the Farm in Rural America

Food Tank

Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Even though we live in rural Iowa, kids don’t have access,” says Melissa Beermann, Monona County Director for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

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A Young Farmer Makes the Business Case for Humane Hog Farming

Food Tank

Today, 22-year-old Roberts is enlisted with the Nebraska Army National Guard while working as a fifth-generation farmer with his parents at Roberts Family Farm in Southwest Iowa. The family’s farm serves as a model for how smaller-scale, humane hog farming can be both environmentally and economically sustainable.

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Finding Balance as a Sixth-Generation Pig Farmer

Food Tank

Being a naive kid, living in rural America…you get burned out on a community that you know everybody in and you don’t take it for what it is. Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm.

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Consolidation in the U.S. Ag Finance Sector   

Trimble Agriculture

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. Number of U.S.

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Generating Resiliency on the Ranch in the Face of Drought—WR Grazing—Irricana, Alberta

RR2CS

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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Uninsured Country: Affordable Health Care Eludes Many Family Farmers and Ranchers

Daily Yonder

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