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. SHI is also undergoing a review process to assess how they can achieve their goals. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Finance First: You know what you’re saying – but what are they hearing?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Because with farm leases that only cover up to three years at a time, the threat of the landlord selling out to a pricey condo developer has hung over every kale and garlic harvest. Creative, Collaborative Financing Without Dirt Capital Partners and Foodshed Capital , this next chapter might not have been possible.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Through the hub, users can access a directory of providers who offer tailored business, technical and financial support, as well as free and accessible business training, starting with the Finance 101: Farm and Food Business Financial Essentials course. Auburn, NY Future Harvest, Cockeysville, MD Glynwood Center, Inc.,

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Golden Harvest GHX Seed The GHX app from Golden Harvest is helping farmers to better understand crop health in their fields throughout the entire season. There is also a guest version of the app for farmers to try it out, even if they aren’t Golden Harvest customers.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Harvest is now in full swing around the country and for many farmers it’s a Golden Harvest kind of year. Golden Harvest had lots to talk about at the 2024 Farm Progress Show – already a month ago now! Learn more about what’s new with Golden Harvest in these interviews from the show.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

AUGUST 5, 2024

As harvest season continues, all Southern Colorado farmers must ensure your agricultural equipment is in top working condition. We offer tailored ag equipment loans to help you finance new purchases or upgrades for your local operation. For more information on how we can help you, visit our Ag Equipment Loans page or contact us today.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 14, 2025

shows his son Ruben a successful blueberry crop on their North Carolina farm during the first week of harvest in 2024. When Bunting is not out working his own fields, hes advocating for others out of his home office, which is full to the brim with crates and binders of loan regulation information and farm finance manuals.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

Farmers deal with a complex web of processes in diverse areas that may be under their purvue, including crops, livestock, finance, recordkeeping, harvesting, marketing, etc. As farmers, we probably ask ourselves this question often, when we are confronted with the many challenges that arise within our agribusiness operations.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JUNE 12, 2024

SHI-Panama partner farmer Bartolo Gutiérrez weeding with his daughter Climate Change in Central America Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), a nonprofit with over 27 years of experience in sustainable farming practices, partners with family farmers in Central America who face the impacts of climate change every day.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Ag financing options, harvest in Indiana, a Farmall calendar, fungicide performance and the capitol Christmas tree are featured this week.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

As a lender that works exclusively in the agriculture space, AgAmerica has helped hundreds of farmers strengthen their finances. For example, grain operators may find post-harvest as the most accurate time, while cow-calf operations may choose when calves are born. Updating will be much faster than starting from scratch.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rice farmers are beginning to move from intensive rice farming – which involves three harvests each year with insecticides and fertilizers—to one organic rice season during wet periods and one shrimp season during times of salt water intrusion. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. I could sell peas all day, he said.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

His vision has gotten a jump start through a partnership with Carbon Harvest. As part of a $20 million project led by the Kentucky-based nonprofit Accelerating Appalachia , Carbon Harvest will receive roughly $200,000 over two years to conduct research on the potential for a regional offset market.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MAY 9, 2024

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. The challenge of obtaining financing becomes difficult due to cultural customs that disfavor women’s authority.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Aug. As harvest season approaches, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is encouraging farmers to prepare by filling propane tanks early. 12, 2024, report. Early bird pricing ends August 15.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Farinella’s whistleblower account coincides with a three-year investigation, “ Hidden Harvest ,” published in March by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), exposing the human rights abuses rampant across India’s shrimp sector. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Agritourism is any venture on a farm or ranch that’s not directly related to raising and harvesting produce or livestock commercially. Financing Your New Agritourism Business As the nation’s leader in financial services for rural America, we help agribusinesses of all kinds to grow and succeed. What is agritourism?

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Using tractors increases productivity and efficiency, leading to bigger harvests, better quality produce, and access to lucrative markets that require a larger volume of products. I am all too aware of the back pain that planting, weeding, and harvesting crops can lead to. Tractors require capital to purchase, rent, or borrow.

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World Agri-Tech

JULY 18, 2024

will now be able to provide growers participating in Predictable Commerce Programs with a financing mechanism to grow their business while reducing risk, through the assurance of an off-taker with committed demand and pricing. Through this partnership, Four Star Fruit, Inc. Owned and operated by Four Star Fruit, Inc.–

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari’s many efforts—all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. Sakari Farms offers a program that teaches youth how to grow and harvest traditional foods.

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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. If you’re a farmer or rancher, your bills are endless. How is a revolving line of credit secured?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

She directs the Total Farmer Health Program , launched in 2019 to provide wellness coaching on everything the agriculture business touches, from family to finances to personal fitness. Cramped muscles or a frazzled circulatory system from absorbing combine vibrations all day during harvest season.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

Getting funding to transition to regenerative organic practices can be a challenge for farms of all sizes, but it’s a necessity if we want to have abundant harvests for generations to come. ecosystem is Mad Capital , a private investment firm that finances regenerative farmers. One of four branches of the MAD!

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Well, the key to that might actually just be how you finance your machinery. Our partners in farm equipment financing, AGDirect, provide the best options across the US. You get an added growing or harvest season from your leased equipment. Our goal is to empower you with the best financing solutions possible. The result?

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Farmbrite

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

With the complex nature of farm operations—from planting and harvesting to equipment maintenance and livestock care—efficient time management is crucial for success and this is especially important for farms. This detailed tracking helps to better budget and plan finances and ensures that labor expenses are kept in check.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 21, 2023

Financing Challenges : Securing financing for equipment purchases may be more complex than leasing, especially for smaller or newer farm operations. For example, if you decide to buy leased equipment or infrastructure outright, you’re able to do so with AgAmerica’s spectrum of financing options beyond leasing.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

With advancements such as robotic harvesters, automated irrigation systems, and precision agriculture tools, farmers can reduce their reliance on manual labor. Securing financing through institutions like AgAmerica can help farmers overcome this hurdle and access the benefits of modern agricultural technology.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

How will you know what farm tasks you need to do, what plants need to be harvested, how long your cows have been in field A, and how much inventory (feed/seed/irrigation line, etc) you have left in stock? Where will you keep track of your finances? How will you communicate with your team members?

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

FAPRI’s report shows prices for many farm commodities have fallen sharply from 2022 peaks and will likely decline further for crops harvested in 2024 and beyond. Still, there’s no question farm finances are much tighter than they were just two years ago.” As a result, net farm income is expected to hit the lowest level since 2020.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Another barrier is financing; good luck finding any of the support required to start businesses on a reservation, without a rich uncle, outside investors, or even reliable access to a bank account. Racial inequalities are very much baked into the systems and institutions needed to launch a restaurant. Then billions of crabs died.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The organization Water.org , founded by Gary White and actor Matt Damon, is helping people in poverty access long-term water and sanitation by building accessible financing models. And plenty of inspiring efforts to conserve water are crossing national borders, too.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

Existing investors Entrée Capital, Jesselson, and Peregrine Ventures also participated in the financing round. “The combination of Bluewhite’s unique autonomous technology and incredible team have led the company to rise above the pack, and we’re thrilled to be working with them as they move into this next critical phase.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

2023 was an exciting 26th year for Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). We expanded to new communities, growing our current partnering farming families to in Central America. Program teams focused on building partnerships, strengthening program management skills, and training farmers in small business practices.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 18, 2024

Even if you’re still perfecting what you’re growing or don’t expect to have a harvestable crop for a few years, you need to begin marketing. For instance, a pasture pig farmer might decide a good diversification for their soil health and finances is adding turkeys. Only to discover that their pigs kill and eat their turkeys!

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