Great Article About Young Farmers: Debt and Payoffs
For young farmers, it’s a labor of Love: They face debt and uncertainty, but the payoff is independence and an agrarian lifestyle By Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [...]
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Farm Family Business: Boost the Next Generation’s Success
Article By Kim Adrian (DTN Progressive Farmer) EXCERPT: In the world of family-owned businesses, there are lots of scary succession statistics. One that appears most often is [...]
Job: Operating Partner for Start-up Farm – Pennsylvania
Title: Start-up Farm – Operating Partner(s), Old School Farm Location: Honesdale, PA – Wayne County Compensation: Free housing in a 6 bedroom home. For ongoing [...]
Case Studies of Sustainable & Organic Beginning Farmers
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture is producing a new series of case studies that provide a unique online resource to beginning farmers. Each case study is [...]
Article: Panel proposes $10 billion cut in farm spending
by Philip Brasher (DesMoines Register) EXCERPT: A $10 billion cut in farm spending included in a deficit commission plan could be a taste of what’s to come for [...]
Conference Call Dec. 14: S510, What Just Happened
Farm Assist Productions is organizing a national conference call to answer questions concerning the Food Safety Bill and it’s amendments. As it is unclear at this point [...]
Interesting Editorial on Impending Farm Subsidy Cuts
Letter From the Editor: The Shrinking Farm Safety Net (DTN Progressive Farmer) by Urban C. Lehner EXCERPT: Now that the Republicans are taking over the House and promising to [...]
CA Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Competitive Grants Program
UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) is pleased to announce the release of the Request for Proposals for the 2010 Sustainable Agriculture and [...]
Download Sustainable Agriculture Articles Free Online
In 2008, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences published 2 “Sustainable Agriculture” theme issues. PDFs of all the articles are [...]
Article: Organic Bean Crop Survives Dry Weather
Dry Weather Hurts Potentially Big Crop Yields in Michigan (DTN Progressive Farmer) EXCERPT: “The hot, dry weather in late summer affected the way the pods filled; other [...]
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