On Tuesday, October 1, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue made a grave statement about the lifespan of the country’s small dairy farms. “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out,” ...

Former Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack proposes a 'small-farmer farm bill' and other solutions to help struggling US farmers.

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to reauthorize the Farm Bill. The bill now moves to the ...

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 ...

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report found the percentage of farms that are small and family owned remained unchanged from 2011 to 2020, holding steady at 89% of all farms. A new report from ...

VAN, Texas (KETK) — Average diesel prices in Texas have surged past five dollars per gallon, pushing farms and ranches across ...

Small farmers fit within no simple definition. Each category has pitfalls—whether by acres, income, employees or head of cattle. Yet the definition is crucial, since it dictates state and federal ...

Help feed neighbors and fund facts. Your Thanksgiving gift fuels VTDigger’s reporting and sends 3 meals to a neighbor through the Vermont Foodbank. Kate Kampner is a reporter with the Community News ...

When Heather Retberg started selling raw milk a few years ago, she ran up against an obstacle that she felt sure would ruin her family’s farm. Retberg, of Penobscot, Maine, remembers the state quality ...

When the couple purchased 5 acres in Evergreen several years ago, a big, beautiful garden was always the goal. But they knew ...