Recent data from the US Department of Agriculture demonstrates the important role small farms play in our food system. Mike Davis has more. Davis: Small farms are often at the center of the discussion ...
After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently released the first set of policy ...
Small family farms are the backbone of our nation. Throughout our history, they have secured the promise of liberty made by our Founders. And they are the indispensable foundation of democratic civics ...
The Small Farm Outreach Conference gathered farmers from across the region and beyond in hopes of continuing to build the ...
When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...
Whether it's small farms in South America or Africa or advanced EU agriculture, there are lots of positive effects from ...
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced last week that it will cut the Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) program, which provides grants to small and medium-sized local farm and food ...
On a recent Friday morning, surrounded by rows of corn, squash, beans, and colorful hints of sunflowers, zinnias and cosmos, Héktor Calderon-Victoria surveys the land he cultivated for the past three ...
When Platt Moore and his wife Ashley learned a residential developer had approached a neighboring farm owner about selling ...