National Letter Supporting Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
National Letter Supporting Beginning Farmers and Ranchers The Land Stewardship Project circulated a letter recently to the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of [...]
Beginning Farmers
Innovative Beginning Farmer Program
Innovative Beginning Farmer Program in the News Application Deadlines for Farm Beginnings Coming Up Soon The Farm Beginnings program is a partnership between the Land [...]
Beginning Farmers and the Farm Bill
Beginning Farmers and the Impact of the Farm Bill In Fall 2012, Congress allowed the farm bill to expire, and instead signed a farm bill extension into law. That extension [...]
Exploring the Small Farm Dream in New Jersey and Beyond
Exploring the Small Farm Dream in New Jersey and Beyond Thinking of starting a small farm? The Exploring the Small Farm Dream class might be one way to figure out where to [...]
More on Farmland Conservation and Affordable Farmland
NSAC On Making Land More Affordable for Farmers Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about a New York Times op-ed, which claimed farmland conservation efforts are not helping [...]
Growing New Farmers, Keeping New Farmers
Beginning Farmer Development Iowa and New Jersey In the past few days, the associated press reported on a tax break given to people in Iowa who hire beginning farmers to do [...]
Specialty Crop Block Grant includes Beginning Farmers
Specialty Crop Block Grant $3.4 Million for Initiatives to Help Beginning Farmers The USDA released a press release on September 24 announcing its investment in grants to [...]
Young Farmers in the UK: Three Profiles
Three Beginning Farmers in the UK Tell Their Stories Three young, beginning farmers from the UK tell their stories in an article here. Their operations are quite different [...]
USDA Funds Conservation on Ag Lands
In mid-September the USDA announced the award of funds to improve conservation on agricultural lands. Excerpt from USDA press release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack [...]
Beginning Farmers in Illinois: Challenges and Opportunities
The Associated Press published a story about young and beginning farmers in Illinois this past week. The author focuses on the major barriers to getting started: land and [...]
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