Modern Farmer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. Rice growing in one of the Lundberg Family Farms test greenhouses. Cross-breeding rice at Lundberg Family Farms. The view from a combine at Lundberg Family Farms. Hence, the binder.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On-Farm Peer Education Event: Sullivan Family Farm Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (1pm - 5:30pm) Sullivan Family Farm (7725 County Road R, Manitowoc, WI 54220) Register: wilocalfood.org/events/sullivan-family-farm-event On-Farm Peer Education Event: Yowela Farms Friday, September 20, 2024 (1pm - 5:30pm) Yowela Farms (2625 Oak Lawn Rd.,

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Half an hour outside Portland, the 50-acre family farm is known for its ice cream and freshly churned cheddar, made from the milk of 20 pastured-grazed cows and sold a stone’s throw away at the farm stand and in a few local restaurants. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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Agwired

MAY 17, 2024

With the next Farm Bill on the horizon, two sugarbeet farmers recently took to the pages of their homestate papers to praise U.S. sugar policy for keeping our food supply secure and supporting their family farms. sugar policy must be preserved and strengthened in the next Farm Bill.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. Most of the people in our ag program are coming from an agrarian background but are trying to be innovative with new ways to approach farming,” says Leventhal. director of the Agriculture Science program.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S. used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

These might include, as in the case of the Mallonee Farm, adopting rotational grazing practices or, in other instances, altering haying schedules. We can’t survey everywhere,” says Regan Smyth, vice-president of conservation and science for NatureServe, “which makes a lot of things hard to know.”

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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. DiLorenzo’s grant is for $5 million and focuses on reducing the amount of methane cows produce.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“Sea has everything to do with food justice and food access and our ability to have an equitable food system,” says Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director at Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Executive Director at National Family Farm Coalition. Let’s crunch some numbers.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But wanting to pass on her legacy, she worked with 3 of her mentees, assisting them in raising capital from the community that she helped build to purchase the farm, launching the first worker-owned cooperative CSA on the north coast. Her legacy lives on in how they now care for that land and each other.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Yes, I’m currently actively involved in farming, but in defined ways. I’m a beekeeper and I love all those momma bees that go out and gather pollen and nectar on our 15-acre pollinator conservation project as part of our 30-acre family farm. I currently [have] about 30 fruit trees with most every kind of fruit growing.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. She also obtained a degree in political science recognizing the role that public policy plays in the implementation of conservation programs and priorities.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

is the single most-asked question I hear as someone working daily with water science, advocacy, and policy in California. Small- and medium-sized family farms, in particular, often have fewer resources to sustain damages and don’t have the luxury to prepare for the next growing season. “Is California still in a drought?”

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Food Tank

MAY 29, 2024

Locals expected rain, but the magnitude and consequential devastation “was not…predicted,” Paulo Brack, a Professor at the University of Rio Grande do Sul Institute of Biosciences and General Coordinator of the Gaucho Institute of Environmental Sciences, tells Food Tank. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. From my brothers, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and especially my parents, I learned the science and arts of agriculture. A childhood photo from the family farm. We tended the land, crops, and animals together.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This year’s DIY award goes to Sena Daniel Ahiabor with the Carver Integrative Sustainability Center at the College of Agriculture, Environment & Nutrition Sciences and Cooperative Extension Tuskegee University, Alabama. The post 2023 Small Farm Innovation Challenge Winners appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Don’t sell the family farm because you will never get it back. That is one way to give back if you can no longer farm it yourself. I can’t tell you the number of stories of regret I have been told about the selling of the family farm. There is nothing worse than the feeling of regret.

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Caff

MARCH 28, 2022

CAFF does that for farmers– it sees and describes trends in soil science and productivity, it helps farms find new sales outlets, it makes the importance of both food safety and food security prominent in its work, and it provides financial assistance to small family farms.

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Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

Description of Services Assist with setting up biological control experiments (applications of predatory mites, food sprays, and predator attractants) according to protocol and site maps in commercial walnut and winegrape farms Carry out weekly field monitoring of spider mites and natural enemies (using visual observations and yellow sticky cards) (..)

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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. I’m trying to imagine any of my family members, insured or not, who’d even consider going to talk to a shrink.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a member of a local Colorado family farm herself, Emma already had some first-hand experience with owning and operating an ag business at Bohnen Farms Inc., Taylor has a bright future ahead of her! a feedlot and cow/calf business here in Bethune, CO.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

At a time when the effects of climate change on farmers are becoming ever more apparent and the country is losing small and mid-sized family farms at a rapidly increasing rate, the FFNSA maintains the status quo. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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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. Does the author ultimately take on the family farm?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sarah emphasizes that Cattle Run Farm’s story is one of resilience, scale, diversification, and fortitude to keep farming and reaching towards sustainability and empowering others. Like many multi-generational family farms, sustainability, resilience, and viability are forged out of necessity.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Through examining matrilineal food-based education and Black women’s social, cultural, and families’ networks, the authors address the ways in which Black women, both now and in the past, have used food to build community.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. Harold and his family are farming with future generations in mind. It looks like a fifth generation might be coming to our farm,” he says. He credits the region’s success with mobilizing large numbers of no-till farmers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Commodities and Crop Insurance Farming is a uniquely risky business. The federal government must play a role in helping farmers mitigate financial loss from unforeseeable risks to maintain a reliable food supply chain and support family farms and the economic security of the communities in which they live. 7110, 7113, 7213).

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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. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Regenerative agriculture is an ongoing continuum of sustainability for Californias farmers and ranchers, informed by current science as well as the traditions and innovations from the original Indigenous stewards of the land. Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms. Photo courtesy of Lundberg Family Farms.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins spent summers working on her familys farm in Minnesota and participated in all levels of 4-H and FFA. Rollins strong foundational knowledge of agriculture also extends to her formal education, attending Texas A&M, where she received her Bachelor of Science in agricultural development on scholarship.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the National Family Farm Coalition points out, Focusing only on foreign ownership distracts from an overarching trend of rising corporate investment in farmland, largely driven by U.S-based This program is critical for equipping farmers with the science-backed research they need to fight the climate crisis.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The commemoration began as Negro History Week, established in 1926 by a sharecropper born to formerly enslaved parents who went on to earn a PhD from Harvard University and serve as dean of its College of Arts and Sciences. percent of the farms, while the market share of their agricultural products sold is 0.4

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the same time, the US is losing small and mid sized family farms at a rapidly increasing rate. Notably, this includes provisions from the Agricultural Resilience Act , the Organic Science Research and Investment Act , and the Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act.

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