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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

This level of community engagement was what we wanted, so farm-to-school doesn’t feel like something that’s so logistical and just taking place among food service directors and specialized folks. In rural areas, agriculture is a really large sector of their economic mobility.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (RR2CS) is an Alberta-based initiative shining a spotlight on the climate solutions that farmers, ranchers and communities in rural Alberta can benefit from. You’re a delight to speak with, thoughtful, flexible, and passionate about empowering rural communities. What is a Community Animator?

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Caff

MAY 2, 2023

In this video, Keng talks about his experiences starting a food hub and shares some important logistics to consider when starting a food hub. By aggregating food to a central location, food hubs can distribute to buyers by managing logistics such as transportation, storage, and handling, and marketing the food to buyers.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, failed shipping logistics forced farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

This level of community engagement was what we wanted, so farm-to-school doesn’t feel like something that’s so logistical and just taking place among food service directors and specialized folks. In rural areas, agriculture is a really large sector of their economic mobility.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

This level of community engagement was what we wanted, so farm-to-school doesn’t feel like something that’s so logistical and just taking place among food service directors and specialized folks. In rural areas, agriculture is a really large sector of their economic mobility.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

H4H covers the cost of processing, storage and logistics for donated game, and food pantries and other facilities receive the meat at no cost. “[H4H] Back in rural Virginia, Adrian Guerrero, who’s been hunting private land for years, is already busy preparing venison jerky and tamales: gifts of gratitude. “

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Logistics Challenges of Night Harvests In addition to the danger, the schedule disruptions and the lower productivity, overnight work exacerbates one of the big challenges farmworkers contend with: childcare. That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

For Topper, the issue is about the way the installation has disrupted the peace of her rural life. A Legal and Logistical Maze Empire Electric’s contract with Tri-State dictates that the co-op is only allowed to generate up to 5% of its own electricity and must buy the rest from Tri-State.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

More recently, I have also been collaborating with Devon Community Foundation who have been connecting North Devon producers with rural residents dealing with food insecurity as part of a Young Foundation funded project called Food for Thought.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. Other questions include finding optimal grazing rates of sheep per acre, as well as other logistics.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

are buckling under the weight of financial, legal, and logistical challenges. For example, in 2016, after receiving a complaint, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) cited Argus for selling eggs from small farms that hadn’t processed their eggs in a licensed facility.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

At the end of the day, it’s not economical for a blueberry farmer to do dual-use at the moment because of the shading and all of these logistics,” Calderwood said. Emmett Gartner covers accountability and Maine’s rural communities as a Roy W. They’re not even going to make money on the field because (the plants) are shaded.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm. “As a suburban community college, we just ignored food production in our educational programs—and that’s going to change.”

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Logistics Challenges of Night Harvests In addition to the danger, the schedule disruptions and the lower productivity, overnight work exacerbates one of the big challenges farmworkers contend with: childcare. That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Because of the island’s isolation and lack of motor vehicles, moving waste to the mainland is logistically and financially taxing, explained Allen Burt, director of the Mackinac Department of Public Works (DPW). In the summer, the population swells with thousands of seasonal employees, summer residents, and tourists. Composting Council.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. Those include $1.65

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

Sonoma county encompasses many environments: wet and foggy coastal redwoods, agriculturally fertile valleys, interior coast range oak woodland, densely populated cities, rural communities, and thriving tribal groups. Catastrophic wildfires and smoky conditions have affected this county, particularly in 2015, 2017, and 2018.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2024

However, the rapid growth at food hubs due to the injection of LFPA funds has magnified logistical challenges for the supply chain. The Iowa RC&D story demonstrates how this infrastructure was pivotal to the success of their rural programming. But they are really stretched,” Giselle continued.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

Can you explain the logistics of creating a cheeseburger entirely from scratch, and how the refrigerated food system makes that possible? They built a home in rural Virginia, growing their own vegetables and raising chickens, and set off on a mission to make a cheeseburger—this sort of pinnacle of industrial food—from scratch.

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Civil Eats

JULY 29, 2024

In addition to authorizing a program that would put extra funds into low-income parents’ pockets for summer groceries, the lawmakers changed a longstanding provision that required schools to serve summer meals communally, eliminating the requirement for rural areas. We’re 100 percent rural, so we’re going everywhere,” she said. “We

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 29, 2024

But as the company’s co-founders made calls to farming contacts beyond their home of Forest City, about 60 miles southeast of Asheville, Beam and Green learned that potable water was much harder to come by elsewhere in the region, especially in rural areas with challenging logistics.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 16, 2024

This story was originally published by Barn Raiser , your independent source for rural and small town news. Sean Park is the program manager of the Value-Added Sustainable Development Center (VASDC), a unit of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University in Macomb.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 22, 2024

Photo by Eric Benson / Investigate Midwest) In Waterloo, a rural city with just under 67,000 residents, 7% of whom are Latino, the main industries include John Deere — one of the leading U.S. He further explained the logistical difficulties: “This is federal record — ICE information, border patrol information.

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