Transitioning to Organic – New Report
FARMERS TRANSITIONING TO ORGANIC NEED PEOPLE-CENTERED SUPPORT SYSTEMS New report details motivations and obstacles for transition success VIEW REPORT Farmers looking to [...]
Statistics and Trends
I often post articles and opinion pieces that discuss new trends in agriculture and farming. You will usually find excepts with links to the articles.
Certified Organic Survey from USDA
Certified Organic Survey: USDA Gathering New Data on Organic Agriculture Production The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service [...]
Farmers Share of Thanksgiving Food Dollar
Farmers Receive Less Than Twenty Percent of Thanksgiving Retail Food Dollar, NFU Farmer’s Share Shows Consumers’ holiday food costs have declined, but farmers still [...]
Farm Training for Minority, Women, Beginning, Veterans
Farm Training: Minority, Women, New and Beginning, Military Veteran and Urban Producers to Receive Training and Information on Agency Services The U.S. Department [...]
Farmland Tenure, Ownership, and Transition Survey Results
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) just released the 2014 Tenure, Ownership and Transition of Agricultural Land (TOTAL) survey, which includes a wealth of [...]
Family Farms Report from USDA
New USDA report looks at family farms – Farm Futures A new report from USDA’s Economic Research Service looks at family farms. The Family Farm Report, 2014 [...]
2012 Census of Agriculture Results: Beginning Farmers
Last week the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced preliminary results of the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Because a comprehensive review of all data [...]
Farming as the “Next Big Industry”?
Farming as the “Next Big Industry”? Many of the news stories about beginning farmers focus primarily on challenges: lack of access to land and capital, low wages, second [...]
New Documentary on the Aging American Farmer
A special documentary, “Changing Lands, Changing Hands,” has come to us by way of Harvest Public Media. The average age of American farmers continues to increase and is [...]
Net Farm Income Forecast Up Nearly 20 Percent in 2011
The USDA Economic Research Service reports that Net farm income is forecast to be $94.7 billion in 2011, up $15.7 billion (19.8 percent) from the 2010 forecast. The 2011 [...]
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