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GROUNDSWELL LAUNCHES 2011 NEW FARMER TRAINING PROGRAM, ITHACA

February 4, 2011 // 0 Comments

For immediate release: 2/4/11 Contact: Joanna Green, Groundswell Center Director, 607-277-0180, joannajgreen@gmail.com Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming Offers [...]

USDA Offers Policy Clarification: Updated Organic Program Handbook

February 4, 2011 // 0 Comments

AMS Press Release No. 014-11 (Soo Kim (202) 720-8998, Soo.kim@ams.usda.gov) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2011—The National Organic Program (NOP) today released an updated version [...]

How the next farm bill could plant a new crop of farmers

February 4, 2011 // 0 Comments

Originally published in Grist, by Lindsey Lusher Shute of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition (reprinted with permission from the author) USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack [...]

Understanding Different Types of Farm Lease Arrangements

February 3, 2011 // 0 Comments

Lease Alternatives (From Farmers National) SUMMARY: Negotiating a yearly lease is a key step toward profitable farm ownership. Depending on where your farm is located, you [...]

Insuring Diversified and Specialty Farms

February 2, 2011 // 0 Comments

From The Greenhorns: Is USDA’s AGR-LITE Insurance Program Right for You? This new program helps calculate value and promote insurance options for alternative producers [...]

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Farmer’s Tyson Case

February 2, 2011 // 0 Comments

Supreme Court Rejects Farmer Who Tangled With Tyson (by Mark Sherman – The Huffington Post) EXCERPT: The Supreme Court last Monday turned down an appeal from a former [...]

Farm Succession Planning Resources

January 31, 2011 // 0 Comments

This post is a prelude to a new Succession Planning Page on Beginning Farmers. Succession planning is essential to the process of passing a farm on to the next generation [...]

Former Migrant Farmworkers Becoming Beginning Farmers

January 30, 2011 // 0 Comments

Here’s a really nice article about farmworkers becoming farmers. It also discusses beginning farmer training and farm bill programs to train and assist beginning [...]

Interesting Article About Competition & Price in Farm Inputs

January 27, 2011 // 0 Comments

Crop Input Suppliers: The Middlemen You Don’t Always Think About. (by Stu Ellis – FarmGate) EXCERPT: What is the state of competition within agriculture? No, a [...]

U.S.-Chinese Currency Linked to Global Food & Commodity Prices

January 23, 2011 // 0 Comments

U.S.-Chinese currency link creates spiral in global food costs: Worldwide commodity inflation looms as a threat (by Patrice Hill – The Washington Times) EXCERPT: [...]