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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

The garden, atop a building near the Denver Coliseum, was purpose-built for Bousselot’s brand of research in an up-and-coming scientific field: rooftop farming. You don’t have to set this up as a dichotomy between urban and rural, really,” says Bousselot. Urban farms attract a host of pollinators like bees, McDougall has found.

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Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

Civil Eats

Spivey, Zama, and Flores operate three of 10 different farm businesses at the Urban Farm Incubator at Watkins Regional Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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The Power of a RLOC: Revolving Line of Credit for Agricultural Operations

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

From budgeted costs like feed and fertilizer to unplanned expenses like machinery repairs or vet bills to budgeting for planting and harvesting season, you may set a lot of cash aside for such costs before receiving any income. The same goes for a YBS ag business or a large rural conglomerate farm as well.

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FAPRI forecasts falling prices for producers

Todays Farmer Magazine

Unfavorable weather, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, avian influenza and a host of other factors resulted in high commodity prices, high farm production costs and high consumer food price inflation in 2022. Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022.

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These Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland and Attempting to Reverse History

Modern Farmer

He’s here, on this 100-degree August day, to show high school and college students—the future of the Winnebago Tribe—how Ho-Chunk Farms, the tribe’s farming company, is changing the face of agriculture on their reservation. We want to start farming our own reservation. We want to own our reservation again,” LaPointe said.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. Enjoy our conversation about Wendell Berry, the fall of tobacco, and “right-sized” farming, below. Brooks Lamb on his family’s farm.

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