Deciding when to transfer some of the decision-making to the next generation on the farm can seem daunting. It doesn’t have to be.

Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced last week that it will cut the Regional Food Business Center (RFBC) program, which provides grants to small and medium-sized local farm and food ...

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 ...

National brands are betting big on small farmers. Food giants such as Chipotle and Sweetgreen have long emphasized close partnerships with small or local farmers, in many cases, due to corporate ...

On November 13, the FFIEC released a fact sheet and data tables for its annual report on small business, small farm, and community development lending data compiled by the OCC, the Fed, and the FDIC ...

East Lansing — In the soft dirt of an indoor horseback riding ring last month, a group of farmers got ready to test drive a new piece of equipment: an electric tractor. As they took turns climbing in ...

The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining companies have scaled back.