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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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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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. Rural Sociology, 89: 3-39. Another barrier is knowledge.

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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. By inviting them to the farm, operators provide important education and awareness of rural traditions. What is agritourism? Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. 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.

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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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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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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. He adds that the indigenous Ho-Chunk Nation was among the first to go into these forests to harvest maple sap. “We

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

At each of those sites, the research team worked with farmers and gardeners to collect data on the infrastructure, daily supplies used, irrigation, harvest amounts, and social goods. He hadn’t considered including backyard gardens in rural areas in the sample, he said, even though city gardens were. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many menus in rural and small-town middle America consist of high-calorie burgers and processed Caesar salads, along with a few trending items like Buffalo cauliflower or flatbreads. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact info@thefern.org. Then billions of crabs died.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines. I don’t blame them.”

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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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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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Written by Niko Simos May 2, 2023 Agritourism offers a unique and authentic experience for travelers who want to explore rural areas, learn about agriculture and sustainable farming practices, and immerse themselves in local culture and traditions. Finance , the Global Agritourism Market size is expected to reach $10.7

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Building an array of financing options can enable different processors to provide more diverse services for producers as well. Hardworking but under-resourced small to midsize processors lack the support and the financial infrastructure in their communities to expand their capacity.

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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?” cing duties, planting schedules, and harvest windows. And my first question for you, uh, Miss Ferris Hansen, is, can you describe the overall conditions for your business? For example, how do you?

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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. Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.” What it’s showing us is that you can really get a response out of the understory crop, especially if you harvest your over story crop earlier to give time and heat units to the understory,” explains Tim. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, its government has aggressively expanded telecommunications infrastructure, increasing the number of smartphone users to about 450 million people and doubling coverage in rural areas. He wanted to ask them about the weather, their planting schedule, and harvest date.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

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

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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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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. A ‘hand primer harvester’ at Scott Farms in Lucama, North Carolina.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2024

While individuals can readily buy freshly harvested items from farmers at the farmers’ market, options for accessing local food are expanding. The Iowa RC&D story demonstrates how this infrastructure was pivotal to the success of their rural programming.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 31, 2023

While individuals can readily buy freshly harvested items from farmers at the farmers market, options for accessing local food are expanding. Anna and Crisostomo Angel | Credit: USDA Local farmers play an essential role in keeping our communities fed and thriving.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 19, 2025

At AgAmerica, were committed to being a buoy to help farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners navigate their way through both calm and turbulent watersnot only with adaptable financing solutions, but also with informative resources that help you weather the storm. tariffs on Chinese, Canadian and Mexican goods.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Building Resilience: Spotlight on Poorest, Rural Communities Amid COP29 Competing Priorities — The International Fund for Agricultural Development is calling for support for smallholder farmers, arguing it’s “not only the right thing to do—it’s an investment with a business and social return,” IPS reports.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Many of the families drained their savings or took out loans to finance their relatives journey. Theres another store just like it on the same block, and countless others like it throughout rural Mexico, where local merchants are holding out against supermarket chains. Some leveraged their homes as collateral.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With a degree in finance, he was particularly interested in opportunities to cut costs on the farm, and he was intrigued by a PFI farmer who conducted his own field trials on neonics. After harvest ended, he reported that all but one of his soybean fields yielded better than last year. According to U.S. That got Dengler’s attention.

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