National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Investing in organic research provides farmers, both certified organic and non-certified, with innovative solutions and practical tools that enhance profitability, mitigate financial and ecological risks, and foster economic growth and social well-being in rural communities. Positive signs are on the horizon.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. We are female; we are male.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 46 million jobs across the country. farms and ranches are the backbone of America’s food and ag sector, the impact of decreased exports and resulting economic fallout reverberates throughout the economy.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Early 20th century agriculture was labor intensive, and it took place on many small, diversified farms in rural areas where more than half the U.S. Roughly 1,500 miles away in Montana, that sentiment is shared by the Copenhavers at their 12MT Ranch. “In

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

While some agricultural and forestry projects might fit into the existing priority project categories, opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon through changes in farm, forest and ranch management would more appropriately fall under additional project categories. We urge the U.S. In conclusion, U.S.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer of 2023, a diverse group of storytellers, organizers, and strategists visited 10 farms and ranches in Canada. These farms and ranches were carefully chosen to represent different aspects of Canadian agriculture, including fruit, grains, beef, veggies, and even a vineyard.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

During the growing season of 2023, the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast travelled to ten farms and ranches across Canada to find out how regenerative agriculture principles were being applied by agricultural producers involved in different types of agriculture production: grains, livestock, viticulture, vegetables and fruit.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

Here’s who will be joining us (alphabetically): Bleu Adams , IndigeHub; Joke Aerts , Tony’s Open Chain, Tony’s Chocolonely; Robert Nathan Allen , Little Herds; Daisy Berg , New Seasons Market; Jayson Berryhill , Wholechain; Carmen Blackwood , EarthRise LLC; Gary Blackwood , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Keliann Blazek , Special Assistant (..)

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RR2CS

MARCH 16, 2023

5:28 – Alberta beef producer Karen Schmidt 8:31 – Agrologist Karin Lindquist 12:07 – Grain producer Jana von Freier 14:55 – Shiana Younger, cattle producer and RR2CS Community Animator What do you think is unique to women that makes them strong stewards of the land?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Beginning farmers and ranchers in the Northern Great Plains will have the opportunity to explore regenerative, certified organic production systems for livestock, grains, oilseeds, and pulses. Thirty stipends for beginning farmers and ranchers are available for up to $200 each to defray the costs of attending.

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Agwired

APRIL 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business Cooperative Service. Fifteen farm and ranch women leaders graduated from the spring session of Women’s Communications Boot Camp hosted by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Keynote speakers included Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen and Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, Administrator of the U.S.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 15, 2023

An annual report issued by USDA’s Economic Research Service, America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance: 2023 Edition , describes characteristics of U.S. Snapp grew up in rural Kansas and joined Microsoft in 1988 as the company’s first female attorney. American farms represent a diverse set of business operations and farm operators.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

AUGUST 24, 2023

As a well-known national farm equipment financing program, AgDirect is very familiar with all the intricacies of these market changes and trends, offering a reliable alliance for agricultural equipment dealers and ranch producers alike. We are here to help get you the loans or financial assistance you need to take your farm to the next level.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. Highly productive soil, nearby grain highways, or contiguous land are all factors that may push farmland prices up. Cropland Prices Cropland values increased $410 per acre to an average of $5,460. That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

Whitney is an owner and operator of JW Farms and Ranch, a family-owned agricultural producer with lot stock operations in southern Oklahoma and farmland in eastern Colorado. Insights from Whitney Ferris Hansen, Agribusiness Leader Philip Jefferson, Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board: “Okay, to our second panelist, Whitney Ferris Hansen.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” But they have to be big.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. At 6 feet, 1 inch, he has large round eyes and a dark beard peppered with gray.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We It’s a much bigger picture,” says Tim.

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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 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. agricultural policy.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They require higher energy foods, so we supplement with imported grain and then rotate them through the pastures on grasses and legumes.” The post Farming With Nature — Redtail Farms, Castor, Alberta appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These much-needed payments are helping farming and ranching operations recover following natural disasters in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Bartlett , a Savage Company, and POSCO INTERNATIONAL announced the exploration of a joint venture in soybean crush and grain origination and export.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 4, 2023

By strengthening connections between rural and urban areas, the Regional Food Business Centers will drive economic opportunities across the region, creating a more diversified and resilient food system. Lead Organization Selected for Each Center: Appalachia USDA Regional Food Business Center , Rural Action Inc. territories.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Rural Response Hotline : 1-800-464-0258 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline : 1-800-273-8255 Veterans Crisis Line : 1-800-273-8255 (press 1) or text to 838255 Crisis Text Line : Free 24/7 text service for those in crisis. The 2018 Farm Bill had that in it, and it’s called the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network.

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NASDA

MARCH 10, 2025

Given the many challenges facing Americas farmers and rural communities, it is critical that Congress act on Mr. Lindbergs nomination in a timely manner. Growth Energy Hadrick Ranch Hilmar Cheese Company HP Hood LLC Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc. Grains Council U.S. Jacoby & Co., Apple Association U.S.

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