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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. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1. The zoning code is often based on the size of the parcel.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. On her own farm, shes invested in expensive autonomous agriculture technology that allows her to take breaks when she needs to from the blistering sun. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Farmland Preservation and Farm Viability This title of the ARA addresses several means of supporting farm viability and reducing the conversion of farmland to other uses.

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Oral History Project Preserves Black and Indigenous Food Traditions

Civil Eats

Adeeb: There was a loss of farmland, farm traditions, knowledge, and skills being passed from one generation to the other due to migration. We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. How will the oral history project support that?

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