Polk County’s numbers reflect that trend, showing a substantial share of small-acreage operations. About 21% of the county’s ...

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 ...

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Missouri farmers are feeling the strain after the U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly pulled funding for the Heartland ...

On its opening weekend in early May, the Reunity Resources farm stand in Santa Fe, New Mexico was doing brisk business in vegetable seedlings. “In front of us here we have a lot of plant babies.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2025 Indiana Small Farm Conference will take place at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds on March 4-5. The conference, hosted by Purdue Extension, serves as an annual ...

Citizens interested in starting a small-scale farm in Delaware often seek guidance and training from their local Cooperative Extension service. A team of Extension Specialists and Agents worked ...

A bipartisan congressional effort led by U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, and Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, seeks to roll back a measure that would factor in the value of farmers' ...