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Action Alert! Defend Value Added Processing for small farms
An important young farmer action item from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: Call Your Senators Today To Defend Family Farm Value Added – Processing and Local and Regional Food Systems Debate and voting on The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) is set to begin on the Senate floor on November 17th. The bill takes…
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Young Farmer News, 11/16/10
Young Farmer Kristen Kimball tells her East Village to farm story Australia lawmakers considering tax breaks for young farmers Trouble up North, young Canadian members of the National Farmers Union want to know why they were left out of the gov’s Future Farmers’ Network Slow Food makes us all jealous with its report on the…
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Young Farmer News Weekend and Monday, November 15
Canada, once again, is upping the ante with a Future Farmers Network Nelson County, ND wonders how young farmers ranchers can get started Will Republicans on subsidies cut them? Farm Bureau Thanksgiving feast for 10 rings up at $43.39, minus green bean casserole, punch and pigs ‘n a blanket. Farm Bureau leaning on President Obama…
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Uniting America's Young Farmers
Learn how you can get involved with the National Young Farmers’ Coalition
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What do you want to see in the 2012 Farm Bill?
NYFC needs your help in crafting a national policy platform.
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Young Farmer News, Friday, November 12
In North Dakota, more big farms and fewer young farmers. Kenya wants to make farming cool. If you live in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, are in high school and want a $500 scholarship, get writing. Peter Naccarato asks gov’t to blame subsidies before eating habits Conservation programs on the block in the next farm bill?…
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Nick and Amelia Neaton, MN
Sweet Beet Farm is a small, 10-member CSA run by the husband-and-wife team of Nick and Amelia Neaton in Watertown, Minnesota (located 30 minutes west of Minneapolis). Nick and Amelia are in their first year as a full-fledged farm operation and despite no advertising budget and no fancy website, they’ve still managed to get the…
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Young Farmer Melissa Ingaglio, PA
Melissa Ingaglio is the farm manager at Charlestown Farm, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, about 40 minutes outside of Philadelphia. Born in rural Pennsylvania, she moved to New York City after high school to attend the New School for Urban Planning. While studying urban food systems she discovered her interest in farming that led her back to…