“There’s life after cows” — Inside the forced sale of a family’s final herd
The New York Times profiles a Pennsylvania family preparing to sell their last herd of dairy cows.
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Food and Farming Crisis | Helping Farmers Sell Locally | News | Protecting Our Food Supply | Saving Family Farms
Young farmers adapt as pressures mount
Rising costs, labor shortages, and succession challenges are reshaping the future of family farms.
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OPINION: A coming farmland transfer could reshape American agriculture
In a New York Times opinion essay, Brooks Lamb warns that hundreds of millions of acres of farmland will soon change hands — and argues that policies must help young farmers access land before consolidation accelerates.
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Oregon bill expands rules for farm stores and agri-tourism
New legislation would allow larger farm stores and expanded on-farm activities in an effort to help struggling farms diversify their income.
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OPINION: American family farms are disappearing — fast
An opinion piece in Deseret Magazine argues that America is losing small family farms at a rapid pace as consolidation, rising costs, and subsidy structures increasingly favor large agribusiness over independent producers.
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From 300 seed companies to 3
A quiet consolidation has reshaped American agriculture — leaving farmers with fewer choices, higher costs, and shrinking leverage.
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Supreme Court to Hear Bayer Case That Could Block Thousands of Glyphosate Claims
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Monsanto v. Durnell, a case that could wipe out pending and future lawsuits over glyphosate — even without granting the chemical industry a blanket immunity from liability.
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Inside the doomsday seed vault
Billed as a safeguard for humanity, the Svalbard Seed Vault reveals uncomfortable truths about biotech power, food sovereignty, and elite contingency planning.
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‘Pay up or lawyer up’: Farmers take eminent domain case to Supreme Court
North Dakota landowners say an Eighth Circuit ruling lets pipeline companies lowball offers and punish anyone who fights back.
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Joel Salatin’s “Food Emancipation Proclamation”: A Call for Food Freedom
The farmer-philosopher says it’s time to unshackle small farmers and consumers from industrial food laws that protect Big Ag while choking local choice.
