NEWPORT, Va. – Farms across the country are closing at an alarming rate, with experts estimating that about 2,000 acres of farmland cease operations each year. The Blue Horn, like many others in the ...

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,” ...

Small farms may get a lot of business in big city farmer’s markets, but they still struggle; it’s hard to compete against the massive industrial farms that supply much of the food we find in ...

Many farmers are well aware that organic farming is a good thing to do. But knowing that something is right and actually implementing it fully are two very different things. Many farmers, even those ...

During the 1980s, supermarkets stopped purchasing peaches from Mas Masumoto’s 80-acre organic fruit farm in Fresno, California. His heirloom peaches were deemed “too small,” they said. He considered ...

Food, safety, modernization — all good words. But the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) President Obama signed into law in 2011 — giving the Food and Drug Administration new authority to regulate ...

“By the time he collected his calcium and his corn and his soybean meal and all the different ingredients and brought it back to the farm and mixed it up and put it out for his birds – it would be ...

CINCINNATI -- As Americans hunt for more ways to eat local and go green, U.S. farmers have been getting grayer. The average farmer’s age -- now 58 -- is almost the oldest of any U.S. job and 17 years ...

Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program that allowed schools and ...

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 and pushing family ...