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Grant Opportunity for Beginning Farmer Projects, Apply Now

October 28, 2010 // 1 Comment

The USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program has released the 2011 request for applications. Deadline is December 22 (but DO NOT wait until the last day!) This [...]

Iowa Renewable Energy Loan & Grant Recipients Announced

October 20, 2010 // 0 Comments

USDA Announces IOWA REAP Recipients USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $32 million in loans and grants for 433 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Iowa [...]

Beginning Farmer Grants Advance Goal of 100,000 New Farmers

October 18, 2010 // 2 Comments

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Press Release: October 18, 2010 Contact: Ferd Hoefner, 202-547-5754 (To View the USDA Press Release Click HERE) Washington, D.C. [...]

Weekly Sustainable Agriculture News Roundup

October 10, 2010 // 0 Comments

From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) CONGRESSIONAL NEWS 37 Programs Will Lose Baseline Funding in 2012 Farm Bill: On September 29, the Congressional [...]

PFI Starts Savings Incentive Program to Assist Beginning Farmers

September 30, 2010 // 0 Comments

Practical Farmers of Iowa is now taking applications for the organization’s new Savings Incentive Program. Goal is to provide beginning farmers an opportunity to save [...]

Beginning Farmers Administrator Taylor Reid Co-Authors new Paper on Biofuels

September 20, 2010 // 0 Comments

Green dreams or pipe dreams?: Media framing of the U.S. biofuels movement A paper by Wynne Wright, Associate Professor in the Department Community, Agriculture, Recreation, [...]

‘Mother Earth News’ Fair: Homesteading Workshops in Pennsylvania

September 10, 2010 // 1 Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE https://www.MotherEarthNews.com/Press-Room/News-Releases/Fair-Homesteading-Workshops.aspx Start planning your dream homestead at Mother Earth News Fair: [...]

A Brief Overview of USDA Rural Mortgage Loans

September 9, 2010 // 3 Comments

Guest Post by Rob Stretch Beginning farmers and families looking to move to rural areas can apply for a USDA mortgage loan. Farmers can run into a lot of hitches during the [...]

Ag consultants Sought in Sullivan County, New York

September 4, 2010 // 0 Comments

CONSULTANTS/FIRMS TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SERVICES RELATED TO PRESERVATION, PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMLAND IN SULLIVAN COUNTY FOR SULLIVAN COUNTY DIVISION [...]

Bloomberg: Broadband Trumps Farmer Payments in Rural Aid

September 2, 2010 // 0 Comments

Excerpt: “Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack knows that Farm Belt protocol requires paying respect to the Butter Cow. During a visit to the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 17, he [...]