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Making Farm Ownership (Or Rental) Possible For Young Farmers

Farmbrite

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) provides loans to farmers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial sources.

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Des Moines finances its removal system from its roughly 600,000 ratepayers. Neighbors need to work together.”

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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