Small family farms are the backbone of our nation. Throughout our history, they have secured the promise of liberty made by our Founders. And they are the indispensable foundation of democratic civics ...

After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins released the first set of policy proposals ...

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 ...

According to a 2025 U.S. Department of Agriculture study, the number of small family farms has declined 8% since 2017.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new policy agenda outlining actions aimed at ensuring the profitability and prosperity of small family farms. Dubbing it the Make Agriculture ...

Farming isn’t just work, it’s a full-time lifestyle. But, for many small family farms across the U.S., that lifestyle is getting harder to sustain. Somewhere between half and 85% of small farms now ...

A Few More Acres Farm is a small family farm in Maine where animals are raised with care, respect and an understanding that ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — 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 ...

Lovewell Farms Director of Cultivation Ryan Plante plants seedlings at the farm in the Hope Valley section of Hopkinton in May 2024. (Courtesy of Lovewell Farms) I co-founded Lovewell Farms, Rhode ...

A fifth-generation farmer stares down a future in which his land is no longer tended by someone in the family. It’s new ...