Carrying on the family farm legacy
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Two brothers transition into leadership on their family farm and find opportunities through young farmer programs.
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Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Two brothers transition into leadership on their family farm and find opportunities through young farmer programs.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Doug and Stacey Keas are passing along their family farming legacy in Rooks County.
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Western FarmPress
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As part of a bid to streamline systems on the mixed family farm on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, Tom Higgs has recently started finishing calves on contract for […] The post How contract finishing brought certainty to a farming business appeared first on Farmers Weekly
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For basketball great Ralph Sampson, farming is his new game of choice. The new and beginning farmer is looking to resurrect his family’s farm and spur new economic growth on the ancestral land.
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Farmers Weekly The Prince’s Countryside Fund, the charity founded by His Majesty King Charles to support family farms and rural communities, has officially become the Royal Countryside Fund.
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Food Politics
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The persistence of family farming is among the most surprising facts about the economics of food. and elsewhere most farms do not sell directly to consumers but operate behind the scenes, selling their produce in bulk to specialists for transport and distribution, often for use as ingredients in packaged and processed foods.
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Western FarmPress
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Western FarmPress
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Caff
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million to CDFA’s Farm to Community Food Hubs Program created by AB 1009 (Bloom) $17.9 million to CDFA’s California Underserved and Small Producer (CUSP) program These programs are critical for the long-term success of small farms across California and our local food economies and must be fully restored.”
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Western FarmPress
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Young farmer enjoys learning about agriculture and participating in family farm business.
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