Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute. About 15% of the U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While it increased reach for ag financial institutions, it also reduced the number of local and regional banks in Rural America as many that offered agricultural lending options were absorbed by larger financial institutions. Number of U.S.

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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. Maintaining yields and managing production costs.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. Davis Med Center.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

On family ranches, taking care of the soil is crucial for producing high-quality wool. These ranches not only produce great wool but also create jobs and support local businesses. Local fiber systems are being revitalized, supporting rural economies by providing stable employment opportunities. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As general manager of high animal welfare meat brand Niman Ranch , which today works with a community of 500 plus Certified Humane® crate-free hog farmers, Prop 12 is a positive development. Prop 12 assures this flip flopping won’t be the case for gestation-crate free pork in California. But that is not because of Prop 12.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Roberts’ family was “looking for a way out of the rat race of commodity farming” around the turn of the century, and his father learned about an alternative market for their hogs: Niman Ranch. Roberts says that joining Niman Ranch allowed the family to continue farming. That’s the bacon that we had for breakfast.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Laslo Legacy Award from Wheatland County for their exemplary leadership in integrating environmental farm and ranch practices at Valley View Ranch.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was by a stroke of luck that Alvarado learned about North Carolina-based Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI), a nonprofit which helps farmers in tough situations free of charge. Well, Ive got nothing else to lose, Alvarado recalls thinking. The need for their services continues, however.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Being a naive kid, living in rural America…you get burned out on a community that you know everybody in and you don’t take it for what it is. Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are. Now, I realize how cool that is,” says Williams.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Then, two years later, it added still more land in this rural Nebraska county tucked between Chimney Rock and Lake McConaughy. a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

Their main marketing channels include a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and wholesale sales. Due to the farm being in a more rural and remote area, it took about four days from when the fire initially started to when there was a firefighter presence near their farm.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Flooding, excessive heat, and drought wreaked havoc on farms and ranches around the country, from California to Texas to Massachusetts. This investment is badly needed, as extreme weather fueled by climate change demonstrated during summer 2023. Of course, the problem is much bigger than this past summer.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

The state’s rural suicide rate is growing faster than in urban counties, increasing 78% between 2003 and 2017. With a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation, University of Missouri Extension will have new avenues to support rural communities in need of mental health assistance.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. 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.

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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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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 8, 2024

On June 11, 2024, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee advanced the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2025 on a party-line vote. Tailored support is essential to improve their production capacity and connect them with market opportunities.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) commends the subcommittee for its work in support of farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. Of those who completed service, 80% remained in underserved rural communities. Agricultural Trade NASDA requests at least $200 million for the Market Access Program and $34.5

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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. He’s hopeful that their lessons learned will help to shape how they ranch over the next five years. We hadn’t had a significant rain event since July of 2020,” says Tim. ‘A

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mutton is not an accessible protein option in the US,” says Megan Wortman, executive director of the American Lamb Board , an industry group aimed at expanding the market for domestic sheep products. It seems to me that it was very rural in character.” A man shearing a sheep at the San Emigdio Ranch in Kern County, CA in 1890.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Together, the proposal’s recommendations provide guidance for the Administration to expand export markets opportunities for U.S. agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 46 million jobs across the country. The latest forecast by the U.S.

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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. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. The extra income can also help offset the unpredictability that often comes with commodity markets. What is agritourism?

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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. But we cannot do it alone. We urge the U.S.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Despite the relatively high demand of local products on school menus, there are still relatively few opportunities and resources for producers to be trained in accessing school markets. These events provided a foundation for producers to understand which marketing channels worked best for selling their products to schools.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That’s good for rural communities as well as the planet.” Producers interested in learning more can visit the Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership website (fiberpartnership.ncat.org) and fill out an interest form.

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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. Most activities associated with farming, ranching, and forestry can be exempted from the Clean Water Act if the operator obtains a permit to pollute.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

A more regenerative approach would create a market for desperately needed alternative crops and reduce our reliance on low-value commodity crops for revenue, not to mention all of the benefits to ecosystem health. We’ve been chasing that rabbit for decades and it has hollowed out the heart of rural America. This is nonsense.

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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. Contact our team of AGDirect experts today!

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. That could be a major issue in lots of rural places, including Alvez’s neck of the woods in Vermont, where cell service often cuts in and out.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon.

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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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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2024

Farmers face unique financial challenges, from fluctuating market prices to unpredictable weather conditions. In times of economic contraction, AgAmerica understands that access to the right financial resources is crucial for maintaining and growing your farm or ranch into a booming agricultural operation. Want to try it for yourself?

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