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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite their ingenuity, small farms are being pushed to the margins of California’s celebrated ag-tech boom.” ...

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 ...

Recent data from the US Department of Agriculture demonstrates the important role small farms play in our food system. Mike Davis has more. Davis: Small farms are often at the center of the discussion ...

I've spent my career working alongside the men and women who harvest the food that feeds our state, particularly in Kern County and the Delano area, where table grapes, citrus, almonds and other crops ...