Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Worse still, many of them have invested large amounts of money in huge buildings to house factory farmed animals, and they are financially exposed with no alternative deployment for the infrastructure they have borrowed on. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Technological advances to ease the labor side of agriculture were few and far between, until the Industrial Revolution and large-scale implementation of machinery in farm operations. Department of Agriculture, 98% of all farms in the U.S. are family farms, with nearly 90% of those considered small family farms.

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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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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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USDA Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

On April 10, 2024, I received a call from my dad asking me to come help him at our family farm there had been an accident. The front axle of my dad’s tractor had broken in half, and he had jumped off the tractor before it tipped over. When I arrived at the farm, my dad couldn’t walk. for evaluation of his leg.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Biden administration is in the final days of a two-week national rural “barnstorm” designed to take the administration’s accomplishments to rural America, which could be a pivotal part of the 2024 presidential election. Though some of his remarks resonated with rural attendees, for others they fell flat.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We talk about the colleges it bankrolled, such as Duke University; how it paid for the educations of farmers’ children; how it fueled so many towns around rural North Carolina; and how the money tobacco generates is still key to the survival of our economy. I can weather a lot,” he said, getting into his tractor, visibly frustrated. “I

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

In 2016, Willis Nelson and his three brothersthird-generation Black farmersstarted a farming venture with 40 acres in rural Sondheimer, Louisiana. Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River, the family farm now spans roughly 4,000 acres and produces corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and milo.

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