Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

USDA Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 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 dads tractor had broken in half, and he had jumped off the tractor before it tipped over. When I arrived at the farm, my dad couldnt walk. for evaluation of his leg.

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Rural Development Ruralism Tractor Family Farming 52

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As the Industrial Revolution progressed, we started using more advanced equipment that could be pulled by horses, and of course today we have individual tractors that can do the work of hundreds of horses (627 horsepower is apparently the highest as of 2023). Life as a peasant farmer, before mechanisation, would have been extremely hard.

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Agriculture Agriculture Tractor Technology 98

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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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. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. A childhood photo from the family farm. We tended the land, crops, and animals together. My accent resembles theirs. My accent resembles theirs.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

But Black farm ownership has dropped dramatically over the years, with just 1,500 estimated to remain in Arkansas today. Among those is the Williams family farm, a fourth-generation operation that has been able to beat the odds and find inspiration in an unlikely place: its own fields. His brother and late father, Harvey Sr.,

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. I do everything from banking to planting to spraying, everything. Im very proud of that.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvester 71

The Farmers Daughter USA

MARCH 2, 2023

DOJ’s briefing stated: These various machines, or ‘tractors’ for short, enable American agriculture. The court is considering whether to allow the action to continue. DOJ argues it should, because John Deere’s repair restrictions are like a monopoly. Crops waste. Land lies fallow.

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Tractor Agriculture Agriculture Marketing 52

Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This modular, low-cost machine enables small vegetable, fruit, and horticulture farmers to reduce hand labor with expandable intelligent electrical horsepower while also offering an alternative for many tasks that would otherwise require a full-sized tractor.

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Farming Farming Mechanics Food 52

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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks farming and ranching as some of the nation’s most dangerous occupations.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

Caff

AUGUST 2, 2021

And after more than a year of pandemic-induced market disruptions, from which many small businesses have yet to fully recover, the onset of yet another disaster has small farms questioning their future. It’s not just tractors that run the risk of breaking down; many of our farms are on the brink,” said Paul Towers, Executive Director of CAFF.

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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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Farming Farming Processing Technology 40

Caff

MARCH 9, 2023

Please sign on to our letter in support by Monday March 13 at 10am ADD YOUR NAME HERE Background While California leads the nation in agricultural production, the number of family farms decreases with each agricultural census as farmers face a myriad of pressures and challenges including increased costs, drought, and corporate consolidation.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52

Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Episode One: Farmin’ and Football with Josh Allen Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills quarterback, sat down with host Pat Spinosa to talk about what it was like growing up on his family farm—and the support he got from his dad when he decided to pursue a career in sports. “[My My dad] knew what he was doing when he was raising me as a kid.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Tractor 59

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 Farming Farming Ecology 52

Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Expo is an educational and networking event showcasing tools and technology designed specifically for smaller-scale operations, including not just those for sales and marketing but also production, e.g. tractors, irrigation, etc.

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Technology Farming Farming Agroecology 52

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. INTENSIFICATION Modern farming is intensive.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

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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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine. Combine or tractor harvesting destroys eggs and can even result in the deaths of birds.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 111

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Similarly, in 2015 , 51 percent of the value of US farm production came from farms with at least $1 million in sales, compared to 31 percent in 1991. From 1997 to 2022, more than 340,000 farms, or 15 percent of operations, went out of business. In fact, US farmers in the past did so.

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Manure Farming Farming Production 106

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 Or, “consumer trends,” which drive the whole tractor in big box grocery, may change. We positively affected the lives of those people, but all their land added up.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

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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Rural Development Ruralism Tractor Family Farming 110

Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Calculus in Minnesota This Minnesota family farm is the only event Biden has attended himself during the rural tour, which includes stops in urban cities such as Indianapolis, too. Parks was also concerned about getting help on the farm, especially if she or her husband becomes ill. “We

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Ruralism Family Farming Farming Farming 101

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., Will Strader, a county extension director in Rockingham County, North Carolina, who grew up on a tobacco farm, described the situation in 2004 with his father’s words. “He If y’all can figure it out, let me know.”

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 89

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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Farming Farming Ruralism Acre 115