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. Hawaii is a state of small farms, he said, with more than 90 percent measuring less than 50 acres.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But while the world watched as engineers scrambled to remove this gargantuan threat to a multi-billion dollar supply chain, CAFF was back home planting seeds for local resilience. While the plight of that oversized boat and its 20,000 shipping containers did finally come to an end, our country’s supply chain woes have not.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The new facility is the result of a partnership between McCarty Family Farms and the Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain (Transform F2C) initiative. It is ultimately expected to help provide more climate-smart dairy products to consumers nationwide, according to project partners.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Meanwhile, the perishability of dairy’s main product exposes the industry to supply chain disruptions. Ultimately, maintaining a diversity of production practices and locations bolsters resilience within the industry, Nicholson says, making it less vulnerable to disruptions in regional supply chains and climate-related issues.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve just read in Farmers Weekly that Tesco has announced their decision to reduce the number of dairy farmers in their milk supply pool , giving just 12-months’ notice to those who will be dropped. In my opinion, this decision is misguided.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Throughout the life of the current farm bill, producers across the country have experienced powerful headwinds, ranging from extreme weather to high input costs to uncertain global demand to supply chain disruptions. Farmers are struggling, and the decline in the farm economy is real.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This, as supply chain disruptions from that conflict drove up the prices that European farmers pay for inputs such as gas and fertilizer. Now, with the Farm Bill debate continuing at least through September of this year, pricing policy reforms could take center stage.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Legislation to establish an Office of Small Farms has been widely endorsed by a diverse group of individuals and organizations. Small farms are the heart and soul of our agricultural landscape, contributing to our economy, food security and the resilience of our local food supply chains. Press, 2023).

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

While the fund was initially established to assist wildfire survivors, in subsequent years CAFF expanded its scope to support farmers impacted by the rippling consequences of the pandemic, as restaurants closed and the economic downturn disrupted supply chains. Yet while many things stopped during 2020, wildfires did not.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Housed within the Farm to Market Program, our Farm to School/Institution work supports over 200 California schools, hospitals. Since 2001, the program has leveraged statewide partnerships and created efficiencies to close supply chain gaps.

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Caff

MARCH 24, 2022

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. Help implement various grant funded Farm to Market projects. Provide supply chain consulting to farmers and buyers to achieve sales.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During this year’s legislative cycle, we advocated for small business emergency relief funding, culturally appropriate technical assistance, new farmer training, as well as tool sharing and supply chain infrastructure. “The But when you’re a small family farm, you’re just trying to make ends meet.”

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Caff

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

That was the message that CAFF and thousands of family farmers brought to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) ten years ago when they began hashing out the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). For big businesses supplying complex, global markets, perhaps. But for a family farm selling to a local grocery store?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

“ Secure, equitable access to land is critical for ensuring national food security, and an investment in access to farmland in the next farm bill will generate immense returns for taxpayers,” said David Howard, Policy Development Director at Young Farmers. “

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

Poultry & Egg Association is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. The award recognizes exemplary environmental stewardship by family farmers engaged in poultry and egg production. We welcome his wealth of experience in, and knowledge of, American beef from farm to fork.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Keeping her farm well-managed is a responsibility she doesnt take lightly.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Despite this, regional food supply chains have long been under-funded and under-resourced. This year we will work with CDFA and allies to ensure this program will equitably support the growth of food systems jobs and the local farming economy. Farmers worked overtime to make up for and build this infrastructure on their own.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. Work will also include supporting participatory-development of a shared regional brand identity for local food and farm businesses.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. Work will also include supporting participatory-development of a shared regional brand identity for local food and farm businesses.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

The Common Market Working in four regional hubs, The Common Market is a nonprofit food distributor connecting urban communities with local food grown on family farms. The Grocery Spot Founded in 2021, The Grocery Spot first opened as a for-profit grocery store to help the local community access high-quality and affordable food.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. But dog owners distrust this mysterious supply chain. Your dog definitely wants this dehydrated chicken head chew.

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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 Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As Congress addresses this critical issue, we urge legislators to consider the following critical points and recommendations: Most importantly, we need to invest in locally-led solutions that help farmers gain a stronger foothold through secure land tenure and by building robust local food supply chains.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the pandemic, when vulnerabilities in our global supply chain become apparent, the Food Hub stepped up, pivoting to provide food direct to consumers. Self reliance runs deep in this part of California. The Mendo Lake Food Hub is showing that, at the community-scale, local food sovereignty is not only possible, but necessary.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Digital direct-to-consumer selling within agriculture has been a trend of the pandemic, as physical stores have had to shut down and supply chain issues made getting shipping materials difficult at times. But with Click Fork, Lewington’s farm didn’t suffer during lockdowns; in fact, sales tripled during the pandemic.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Founded in 2020, East Denver Food Hub is a social enterprise that builds relationships with wholesalers, retail markets, and institutional partners to demystify the supply chain, address food insecurity, support the viability of local agriculture, and develop community wealth creation initiatives that promote economic justice.

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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 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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We ” Mannix created Old Salt to build a regional meat supply chain that bypasses the consolidated food system and keeps dollars and ecosystem benefits within local communities.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They are behind the Fair Food Program , a partnership that seeks to create a more ethical supply chain that benefits workers, growers, retailers, and eaters. The organization aims to address systemic food supply chain issues and ultimately eliminate the need for their work.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Local Food: Markets, Supply Chains and Access The farm bill plays an important role in supporting the health and prosperity of our rural and urban communities. It also offers a new flexible financial product for food supply chains by expanding the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loans to offer complimentary grants.

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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. Stanton’s book focuses on the co-op’s trials and tribulations as it wrestles with supply chain issues and maintaining its membership base.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The effort to bolster meat and poultry processing capacity aims to increase competition, support producer income, and strengthen the food supply chain to lower costs for working families. Theo Scholze of Scholze Family Farms in Humbird is among those who will benefit from the Crescent Meats expansion.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They can also develop comprehensive food action plans that incorporate equitable land use, farm-to-school programs, and food recovery initiatives that redirect surplus food to those in need. The urgency of these initiatives has only intensified following the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.

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