Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It can also promote healthier soil, reduce pest problems, and boost rural economies. Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. Equipment sharing and community information sharing about financing helps to adapt quickly to the changes.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? The money to sustain the rural environment.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Women in rural areas are the labor workforce in Africa’s food system,” says Marème Niang Belko, Agronomist at CERAAS. Many women in West and Central Africa lack access to technology, quality seeds and fertilizers, agricultural infrastructure, credit, extension services, and markets.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. His farm is also working to reduce tillage—a practice that can lead to soil erosion.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MAY 9, 2024

Starting and running a farm can feel daunting, especially for rural women who lack support and resources. The uncertainty of success and the lack of education and financing prevent many rural women from starting their own farms. At Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), we understand the challenges women rural farmers face.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

For instance, precision ag data can help farmers apply fertilizers and pesticides more accurately, leading to better crop health and reduced input costs. Securing financing through institutions like AgAmerica can help farmers overcome this hurdle and access the benefits of modern agricultural technology.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

In this article, we outline the impact of rising property taxes on agriculture and explain ways rural landowners can reduce their tax burden. More people were moving to Rural America than moving out. Under this deduction, farmers can deduct the value of their soil fertility as an input expense on their newly acquired land.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top Three Spending Categories 2023 Fertilizer and Chemicals High oil prices inflated the price of fertilizer and chemicals in 2023, but that has since come down. Prepare for the Future with a Finance Team You Can Trust AgAmerica has been helping farmers gain financial flexibility for almost two decades. billion in 2024.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 3, 2024

The Capital for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Act directs the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to develop a multi-year operating loan pilot for beginning farmers to finance initial assets and the development of production and management systems.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 22, 2024

We are one of the largest financial institutions serving the rural areas of southern Colorado , so we’ve positioned ourselves as an organization ready to help local farms and ranches realize all the benefits of embracing these top-notch tools.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

At the Future Economy Forum Pavilion, experts came together for a great conversation on making sure that food system financing aligns with climate goals. At this event and a UNFCCC side event that also covered economic transition pathways, we addressed urgent ways that strategic financing can help spark food systems transformation.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022. Over the next 10 years, average nominal prices are much lower than they have been in 2022-23, but they remain above the average of 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

And have there been changes in the availability and cost of financing, uh, over that period of time?” It has a stranglehold on the American agriculturalist right now, which leads to a stranglehold on all of rural America. “In being asked, ‘What’s the overall condition of our business today?’

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On one of the plots, Tim and Doug planted a standard mix using cereals only—a barley and oats mix—and added fertilizer to help with tonnage. On the next plot, they used less fertilizer but planted five crop varieties. We have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.”

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert. The purchase launched a rush that pushed funding for agtech startups from $3.1 billion in 2012 to $51.7

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

And in Brazil, where leaders are also meeting for the G20 Summit, countries reached what Reuters called a “fragile consensus” on the importance of climate finance, but no obligatory commitments have been agreed upon yet at either COP29 here in Baku or at the G20 in Brazil. Say it loud: Rural women are our everyday heroes!”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. There are several dedicated rural partnership investments with the potential to dramatically increase support for regional food enterprises.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. In contrast, today’s dominant players genetically engineer and mass produce seed alongside complementary inputs including fertilizers and pesticides. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 was recently introduced by U.S. This bill builds on the framework she shared earlier this year, with even more concrete proposals aimed at boosting rural communities and supporting farmers. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 18, 2024

They soon discovered the main source: sewage sludge spread as fertilizer. Tests found water in hundreds of rural wells unsafe to drink, and families faced an uncertain future with fear. There were strong critiques of the safety of using sewage sludge as a fertilizer back in the 80s.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

FSA is currently unable to offer pre-qualification or pre-approval services for farm ownership loans, yet this service is routinely offered by other lenders working with competing buyers for farm properties, which puts buyers who must use FSA financing at a disadvantage. 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411).

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This includes the language of their leases: “We structure our leases according to industry leading sustainability standards, encompassing specific conditions related to soil fertility, erosion control, groundwater protection, and input management,” states the company’s website. food system. The post JD Vance Funded AcreTrader.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. We talk about the colleges it bankrolled, such as Duke University; how it paid for the educations of farmers’ children; how it fueled so many towns around rural North Carolina; and how the money tobacco generates is still key to the survival of our economy.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 2, 2024

SJR 74 would have allowed rural districts to have more influence over constitutional amendments. Wendel also noted that the farm bureau lobbying does not support sustainable farming or regenerative agriculture, which she said prioritizes soil health and limits the use of pesticides and fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 8, 2024

After five years, in 2021, Tyson demanded that Minh install new fans and controllers in the houses, even though the old ones worked just fine, said Nhu-Hai, who handled the finances. Kahn has met with Iowa farmers about consolidation in the fertilizer industry , and in 2023, she led a significant update to the government’s merger guidelines.

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