The Farm Service Agency is making a change to its acreage reporting requirements to make it easier for vertical farming operations and smaller-scale farms to qualify for USDA programs. The annual ...

By dawn, they would be stacked inside the Central California Food Bank, one of the buyers that keeps his small-scale farm and ...

Connie Klingenberg Vetter sought a way to preserve her grandparents’ small farm just west of Deer Park. She wanted it to be a place to show other rural landowners how to live on the land without ...

Nick Wallace, owner of 99 Counties meat delivery service, on Aug. 9 plans a path to drive his cattle to a new pasture for grazing at his family farm in Keystone. His company’s organic meat delivery ...

Across the United States, small farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms declined by about 140,000, a 7% drop, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

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, ...

South Africa is already experiencing higher average temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, trends that ...

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Herds & Harvest Program is offering the "Business Strategies for Growing Small-Scale" workshop Aug. 25, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. It is offered in partnership with ...

The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day proved that dedicated growers won’t let summer temperatures dampen their enthusiasm for learning. Despite the hot weather, 63 attendees gathered at the Purdue ...