Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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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. The Problem: Why Farm Property Taxes Are Rising After nearly a decade of negative migration, COVID-19 spurred a major change in 2020.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But, because financing hasn’t evolved with them, it’s challenging for farmers to secure the capital they require to purchase land and invest in their operations. Combined with a poor grain season overseas, farmers achieved an economic high they expected to last for years to come.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Read key takeaways for farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners from the USDA’s September 2024 farm income forecast. Rural community stakeholders across the U.S. Flexible Financing: We offer loans and refinancing options tailored to your specific operational needs, ensuring that your farm is equipped to weather economic shifts.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

He hadn’t considered including backyard gardens in rural areas in the sample, he said, even though city gardens were. “We We were not necessarily attempting to compare urban and rural food production,” he said. “In The port also handles imports and exports of commodity grains, coffee, and farm equipment.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Des Moines finances its removal system from its roughly 600,000 ratepayers. ppm for nitrates. Each year, the measurement in their water kept creeping up.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 19, 2023

In rural Oklahoma, producers are asking how “carbon farming” works and, importantly, who benefits. Proponents argue the carbon trade will usher in an age of green finance that will protect biodiversity, incentivize conservation, and ease the energy transition. Rural areas are at the forefront of this. Now Big Ag wants in.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

Improve Rural Prosperity: This priority drives us to improve the prosperity of low-income and under-served farmers by improving their access to inputs, knowledge, finance and markets.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Incentives to derisk the transition to more sustainable production practices such as carbon credits , ecosystem service credits , and creative financing solutions may play a crucial role in facilitating the transition. Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Credit unions provide financial services tailored to the agricultural sector, helping farmers secure loans and manage their finances more effectively. Cooperatives contribute to the development of rural communities. turning grain into flour or milk into cheese), which may face different tariff structures or allow for premium pricing.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We We have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.” We hadn’t had a significant rain event since July of 2020,” says Tim. “We

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora. Even Perrizo in Faribault County used herbicides to terminate his.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. There is no life limit on healthy soil, says farmer Gerardo Martinez, CEO of GALA.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

And I realized that missing in the larger story of the rise of Iowa hog confinement in the media is the fact that people there did fight them for years; there was a rural rebellion —and they lost. I even played soccer next to a Cargill grain elevator.” It is designed specifically to incentivize overproduction of grain.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. The acres, which he had leased, are to become a housing development.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They scare the farmers and say that you’re going to lose your yield, that you’re going to have crop failure, and the whole grain sector will just collapse,” said Louis Robert, a Canadian agronomist who previously worked for the Quebec government, where he revealed pesticide-industry meddling in research on neonics’ environmental harms.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tests found water in hundreds of rural wells unsafe to drink, and families faced an uncertain future with fear. Some farmers could no longer produce safe food due to PFAS links to cancer and other health risks. Some had to shift what and where they planted, while others shut down their operations for good.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2025

A string of agricultural policy decisions from the White House has sparked confusion and heightened financial uncertainty for farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners who rely on government contracts as a source of income. The IRA was marketed as a cure-all but delivered more bureaucracy than benefits for rural families.

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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. So, despite the debt they still had from the initial farm purchase, the couple took out another loan.

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