After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins released the first set of policy proposals ...

After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently released the first set of policy ...

Small family farms are the backbone of our nation. Throughout our history, they have secured the promise of liberty made by our Founders. And they are the indispensable foundation of democratic civics ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new policy agenda outlining actions aimed at ensuring the profitability and prosperity of small family farms. Dubbing it the Make Agriculture ...

Do you consider your neighbor’s five-acre property with 12 chickens a farm? No? What about your neighbor with two show pigs? No still? If that’s the case, the folks behind the USDA Census of ...

Farming isn’t just work, it’s a full-time lifestyle. But, for many small family farms across the U.S., that lifestyle is getting harder to sustain. Somewhere between half and 85% of small farms now ...

According to a 2025 U.S. Department of Agriculture study, the number of small family farms has declined 8% since 2017.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Billions of federal dollars for farming disaster relief should go to small family farms “not the big (agricultural) companies and investment funds that have been buying up farmland ...

Lovewell Farms Director of Cultivation Ryan Plante plants seedlings at the farm in the Hope Valley section of Hopkinton in May 2024. (Courtesy of Lovewell Farms) I co-founded Lovewell Farms, Rhode ...

The way the world gets its food is undergoing a change and becoming more digital every day, mostly due to blockchain technology. Specifically, the Ethereum network is moving past the world of digital ...

Maple Farmers is a collective of small family farms around Vermont that craft syrup in small batches the traditional way — ...

A Few More Acres Farm is a small family farm in Maine where animals are raised with care, respect and an understanding that ...