Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rural crime on the rise […] The post This Week in Farming: Grain merchants, crime and blackgrass appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday compendium of the best of Farmers Weekly from the past seven days.

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Grain Farming Farming Ruralism 175

Western FarmPress

MARCH 26, 2025

Rural fire departments have the opportunity to apply for free grain bin rescue equipment.

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Grain Ruralism 111

NASDA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Wade will be the staff lead for NASDA’s Plant Agriculture and Pesticide Regulations and Rural Development and Financial Security Committees. I cannot wait to do my part to help NASDA’s members continue to protect natural resources, bolster sound regulatory frameworks and strengthen rural economies,” Wade said.

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Agriculture Agriculture Rural Development Ruralism 147

DTN

JANUARY 31, 2025

As we begin 2025, grain buyers are preparing for the crop year as they normally do, by looking at a long list of variables that will impact their grain buying efforts. As we begin 2025, grain buyers are preparing for the crop year as they normally do, by looking at a long list of variables that will impact their grain buying efforts.

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Grain Supply Chain Marketing Crop 52

ATTRA

JANUARY 10, 2025

USDA announced that it is awarding $120 million in Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants for 516 projects in 39 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. The grants include energy-efficient grain-drying and lighting systems for farms, as well as renewable energy systems to power agricultural businesses. Virgin Islands.

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Ruralism Grain Agriculture Agriculture 40

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding.

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Food Tank

JULY 20, 2024

Ustawi Afrika is working to improve gender equity for rural women and expand sustainable agricultural practices in Kenya. Doreen Irungu founded Ustawi Afrika after watching her mother struggle as a woman in agriculture in a semi-arid, rural area. According to UN Women , over 60 percent of people living in rural Kenya are women.

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Food 106

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tar spot was a little late arriving in Ontario cornfields in 2023, but the leaf disease ramped up post tasseling, and with an extended fall, took a late-season bite out of grain yields in southwestern areas of the province. Growers who sprayed fungicides to defend their crop against disease were rewarded with higher yields, reports.

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Yield Grain Crop Ruralism 299

AgWeb Farm Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On October 8th, 2019, local farmer Jerry Schwarzrock was entrapped in his grain bin. His sons found him, and immediately called 911. That one call then sparked a new calling for the local fire department.

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Grain Ruralism 115

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At night, and on weekends, he’s a serious sourdough bread baker—and an aspiring grain farmer. After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. Exports fell and imports rose for vegetables, fruits, melons, and key food grains. of US farmland.

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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 1, 2025

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

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Farmland Agriculture Agriculture Marketing 89

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. Some NGOs have been working with the private sector to encourage companies to develop products containing small grains, and this has created a demand.

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Crop Maize Food Grain 75

NASDA

MARCH 3, 2025

By prioritizing Codex, the Department of Agriculture supports the revitalization of rural areas and sustains the millions of American livelihoods connected to our food, beverages, and agricultural exports. Codex will continue to have an increasingly positive impact on rural America as we see expanded demand for U.S. Grains Council U.S.

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Manufacturing Beverage Food Agriculture 130

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Rural Response Hotline : 1-800-464-0258. Haskins is the behavioral health lead at AgriSafe , an agricultural health care network formed by rural nurses in 2003. Niggs program launched in 2021 and is all about getting fit right on the farm by making use of tractor tires, grain bin stairs, and other readily available equipment.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Tractor 127

RR2CS

AUGUST 28, 2023

Will widespread adoption of regenerative agriculture automatically lead to the rejuvenation of rural communities? By Derek Leahy I have been given this amazing opportunity to travel Canada and interview agricultural producers about regenerative agriculture for the Rural Routes to Climate Solutions podcast. food, fibre, medicine, etc.).

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Livestock 52

Daily Yonder

APRIL 3, 2024

Photo provided by Grayson LandCare) Grayson Landcare also acts as an incubator for rural innovation. The post Profile: Grayson LandCare – Incubating Rural Innovation appeared first on The Daily Yonder. Today, Food Independence supplies a box of food to approximately 350-400 households every month.

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Ruralism Textiles Orchard Food 73

ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In Maine, five funded projects will support buckwheat processing, grain extrusion, kelp processing, and shelf-stable products from Maine ingredients. These projects include development of a food distribution system across rural Northwestern California.

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Supply Chain Food Distribution Processing 40

RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Learn from Expert Speakers: Will Groeneveld , has grain farmed in the Mannville area for 40 years. Since 2018, he has included perennial forages, grain intercrops and summer & winter grazing in an effort to improve both his soil and farm resiliency. Why Attend? Let’s cultivate a future of sustainable farming together!

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Crop Forage Livestock Grain 98

NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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Crop Ruralism Forestry Agriculture 130

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities. The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Money Making by Kathryn L.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

There is a strong market demand for local products from agroecological farms and producers, including green leafy vegetables, fruits, grains, small livestock, and native seeds. Climate resilience requires broad participation from the most vulnerable farmers who are rural women dependent on natural resources for their well-being.

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Agroecology Marketing Food Finance 125

Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America by Sonja Trom Eayrs Attorney and farmers daughter Eayrs chronicles the long history of havoc wreaked by corporate farms on rural communities. And Hawken reveals what possibilities the element may open up in the future.

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Food Plantation Farming Farming 120

NASDA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

My love and investment in the NASDA mission stems from a rural Kentucky upbringing, while my professional experience has fostered a passion for agriculture at global scale. Grains Council and American Farm Bureau Federation. I am eager for the opportunity to join the talented and innovative team at NASDA. Iliohan said.

Agriculture 162

Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism Grain 162

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. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

But many small farmer associations and alliances for food sovereignty are questioning the implications of this protocol on seeds and rural communities in Africa. You cannot protect or help farmers rights when you are talking about plant breeders’ rights,” Susan Nakacswa, Africa Programme Officer at GRAIN, tells Food Tank.

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Seeding Grain Food Agriculture 128

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Land access was the first step. And growing rice with SRI can cut those emissions nearly in half.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 125

Agwired

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Rural Media Group officially announces the sale of The Cowboy Channel and The Cowgirl Channel to Teton Ridge. FS GRAIN plans to upgrade and expand its existing grain elevator in St. FS GRAIN plans to upgrade and expand its existing grain elevator in St. Emergent Connext, Inc. , Weber to its Advisory Board.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 45

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ryan Mason transitions a successful urban farm operation back to his rural roots in Pigeon Lake, Alberta. Through his studies, Ryan participated in a global exchange program in rural Mexico, living and working with a campesino (small farming) community. It was there where I rediscovered my passion for food and food studies,” he says.

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Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture Food 52

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is great potential for strawberries in rural CEA settings. However, this article makes a case for utilizing CEA in rural environments with various benefits. However, the report also notes that urban centers often don’t have the space for co-location that more rural settings can offer. Credit: iStock.

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Ruralism Food Vertical Farming Supply Chain 52

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Blackland Cotton & Grain Producers Association Bongards’ Creameries California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association California Association of Wheat Growers California Citrus Mutual California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association California Dairies, Inc.

Farming 130

Farming Farming Grain Supply Chain 130

NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

American food and agriculture exports are a vital component of the American economy, totaling nearly $200 billion in 2022, and providing jobs and economic opportunity in rural communities and throughout the supply chain in every corner of the country. Grains Council Washington State Potato Commission cc: Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Letter Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned agricultural organizations are deeply invested in the well-being of our rural and agricultural communities, and we write today to urge you to prioritize and support the swift passage of a bipartisan farm bill this year.

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Supply Chain Farming Farming Ruralism 130

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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Food Seeding Crop Poultry 106

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. What of the Future?

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

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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Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130