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Family Farms:     more books (100)

Blue Shadows Farm: A Novel by Jerry Apps, 2009-09-16 The American Family Farm (Motorbooks Classic) by Hans Halberstadt, 2003-08 Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community by David Mas Masumoto, 1987-06 Morning Glory Farm, and the Family that Feeds an Island by Tom Dunlop, Photos by Alison Shaw, 2009-09-15 From the Land and Back: What Life was Like on a Family Farm and How Technology Changed It by Curtis K. Stadtfeld, 1974-03-17 Rebirth of the Small Family Farm: A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept by Bob Gregson, Bonnie Gregson, 1996 Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm by Gayla Marty, 2010-04-01 Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940 (Revisiting Rural America) by Mary C. Neth, 1998-11-05 The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson, 1999-12-22 If Our Lives Be Spared: Three Generations of an American Family in Central New York by Terrance Keenan, 2007-05-30 The Resilient Family Farm: Supporting Agricultural Development and Rural Economic Growth by Gaye Burpee, Kim Wilson, 2004-06 On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm (Speaker's Corner) by Willie Nelson, 2007-08-01 Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945 (Our Sustainable Future) by Michael Johnston Grant, 2002-12-01 The Disappearing American Farm (Impact Books - Issues) by Jake Goldberg, 1996-03

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61. Hoffman Family Farms
    Welcome to Hoffman family farms! The Hoffman Family has been farming and servingthe communities in the Clackamas County for over four generations.  
    http://www.hoffmanfamilyfarms.com/

62. Governor's Office Of Agricultural Policy : Planning For The Future : Governor's
    Governor's Commission on family farms. On family farms have a varietyof needs, which must be addressed for them to be successful. The  
    http://kytobaccotrust.state.ky.us/planning/gcff.shtml
    
    Extractions: GCFF GTMEAC KARDA Long-Term Plan ... Near-Term Plan On a warm August afternoon in 1785, Thomas Jefferson spoke with a man named John Jay about farmers and agriculture. At the dawn of our nation’s independence, leaders recognized the contributions made by farmers in development of not only agriculture, but also the social fabric of America. "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." Reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson in the 18th century, today Kentucky Governor Paul Patton continues to support the vital role farmers play in supplying food to the world and sustaining Kentucky’s rural character. There exists a critical need for bold and aggressive leadership in the cause of preserving Kentucky’s rural character through the preservation of its family farm operations. Family farms have a variety of needs, which must be addressed for them to be successful. The survival and success of farm families in the 21st century is critical to the well being of consumers, rural and urban communities, the environment and the economy. In July 1998, Kentucky Governor Paul Patton established the Governor’s Commission on Family Farms, the first group comprised primarily of family farmers to focus exclusively on the interests of Kentucky’s farms families and rural communities. Today, the Commission continue to play a key role in advising Governor Patton on issues such as marketing assistance, diversification, labor assistance, urban / rural partnerships and infrastructure and market development for new crops and products.

63. United States - Pooling Ideas To Rescue Family Farms
    Monday October 27, 1997 Edition. Pooling Ideas to Rescue family farms.Christina Nifong, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.  
    http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1997/10/27/us/us.2.html
    
    Extractions: Monday October 27, 1997 Edition Christina Nifong, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DUNBAR, N.C. In one possible future, Roger Grimes is a successful family farmer, nurturing mums in his greenhouse, selling peanut hulls to cat-litter makers, and tending a herd of goats. The cotton he raises on 670 acres in Nash County, N.C., would be grown with no chemicals - and fetch a premium price because of it. In another future, Mr. Grimes sells off his land and goes to work for an agribusiness firm. His wife goes back to teaching, and his two boys head to college in search of a living that doesn't include the feeling of having rich Carolina earth pour through their fingers. FLEXIBLE FARMING: To keep his farm afloat, Roger Grimes has considered raising hogs and mums in addition to his current crops of cotton, tobacco, and peanuts. (KAREN TAM/SPECIAL TO THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) It's a crossroads that family farmers have faced increasingly over the past two decades. Either they change the way they've been doing business for generations or they change their occupations. Now, an unprecedented coalition of farmers, academicians, and public officials has been gathered by the US Department of Agriculture to recommend changes to public policy that would aid family farms and to publicize ways that small farmers themselves are figuring out how to compete in an economy increasingly dominated by huge corporations. The results of the National Commission on Small Farms are expected next month.

64. Family Farms
    family farms up. Related topics broader, farms.  
    http://agrifor.ac.uk/browse/cabi/detail/731ddc365a4d47352cbc02ecf52037c2.html
    
    Extractions: Farming for the future : a new direction for farming in Wales This report was published by the National Assembly of Wales in November 2001, and outlines the current state of farming in Wales. It presents a programme of action planned to halt the decline of the family farm and agricultural unemployment, and ensure that farming remains viable and productive whilst ensuring the continued protection of the rural environment, and the promotion of Wales. This 54 page document is provided in PDF, and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Wales agricultural development agricultural unemployment family farms ... rural economy

65. UFE - The Estate Tax And Family Farms
    Your Senators' Estate Tax Votes. The Estate Tax and family farms. Proponents of estatetax repeal claim that many family farms must be sold to pay estate taxes.  
    http://www.ufenet.org/estatetax/ETFarms.html
    
    Extractions: First, farmland can be valued at between 45% and 75% of its fair market price. Second, any estate taxes due can be deferred for up to 14 years. Finally, farm couples can exempt up to $2.6 million from taxes, rather than the standard $2 million per couple. Many of the wealthiest "farmers" aren’t farmers at all.

66. Will Family Farms Die Like Mom, Pop Stores?
    Will family farms die like mom, pop stores? ALPENA 11/01/00 Updated0338 PM ET, Will family farms die like mom, pop stores? ALPENA  
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnists/neuharth/neu047.htm
    
    Extractions: 11/01/00- Updated 03:38 PM ET ALPENA, S.D. - Once upon a time, in little towns like this across the USA, every business was family-owned. Mom and Pop ran the grocery store. Also the butcher shop. Drugstore. Movie house. Gas station. Most of their customers were area farm families. I grew up here. Worked at Rosser's Butcher Shop part time while in high school. Got $1 a week and all the salami and cheese I could eat. Rosser's is gone now, as are virtually all of the other mom-and-pop places. Not just here, but everywhere. Replaced by the Wal-Marts of the world. Family farms also are dwindling; many gobbled up by the huge, national agribusiness corporations. The national picture: 1950: 5.6 million farms, averaging 213 acres each. 1998: 2.2 million farms, averaging 432 acres. The farm scene is a bit different here. South Dakota's revised constitution prohibits agricultural operations by outside corporations. They can manufacture farm products here, but can't farm the land. Result: There are fewer and bigger farms here, too. But most of the big owners are natives, who bought out relatives or friends who wanted to split for the coast.

67. Our Family Farms
    Our family farms. A Final Requiem or a Route to Recovery? A Route to Recovery? So,how do we tally the total loss caused by the demise of our family farms?  
    http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc1405/ourfamilyfarms1405.html
    
    Extractions: The family farm is in deep trouble. Couched within reams of statistics, government rhetoric, and the self-congratulations of giant agribusiness corporations is a story of occupational extermination. According to John Kinsman, a Wisconsin dairyman and founding member of Family Farm Defenders, "Family farms are being discriminated against [in a way that is] tantamount to an ethnic cleansing. Political and economic forces have joined together in this and collaboratively work to develop unfair pricing structures and tax breaks that favor large-scale farms, as well as delivering grants and legal advantages to agribusiness-scale corporate entities."

68. Fading Family Farms
    Fading family farms. Conscious Choice, May 2001. Our family farmsby Juli Brussell Within reams of statistics, government rhetoric  
    http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc1405/

69. Making A Difference For Family Farms & Ranches
    Making a Difference for family farms Ranches. Visit the followingwebsites Companies organizations dedicated to saving family  
    http://www.nobull.net/

70. RW - Tax Fairness: Estate Tax And Family Farms
    The Estate Tax and family farms. We Proponents of estate tax repealhave rejected reforms that would have protected family farms. In  
    http://www.responsiblewealth.org/tax_fairness/Estate_Tax/Estate_Tax_Family_Farms
    
    Extractions: According to the IRS, of the 2.3 million people who died in 1998, only 650 left an estate with significant farm assets. A Treasury Department analysis found that estates that included family farms paid less than 1% of all estate taxes. On April 8, 2001, the New York Times reported that the pro-repeal American Farm Bureau Foundation could not cite a single case of a family farm lost due to the estate tax. Proponents of estate tax repeal have rejected reforms that would have protected family farms. In 2001, the Senate rejected a Democratic reform proposal that would have tripled the family business exemption to $4 million for individuals, $8 million for couples. That reform would have exempted the vast majority of farms and small businesses that currently pay estate taxes.By taking an all-or-nothing attitude, and refusing to compromise on reforms that would protect farms, pro-repeal forces have shown that they don’t really care about family farms. In addition, 49 of the 51 Senators who voted to repeal the estate tax in 2000 also voted for the disastrous 1996 "Freedom to Farm" act that has hurt family farmers and led to greater corporate control of agriculture.

71. Policy Bias Leaves Family Farms Behind -- Center For Rural Affairs
    org. May, 1999. Policy bias leaves family farms behind. By CHUCK HASSEBROOK.Linus overlooked. family farms also face biases in the market. Large  
    http://www.cfra.org/newsroom/op_eds/Policy_bias.htm
    
    Extractions: www.cfra.org May, 1999 Policy bias leaves family farms behind By CHUCK HASSEBROOK Linus Solberg may be the last of three generations to work the fertile black earth of the family hog and grain farm near Calendar, Iowa. He's does not like it; and neither should you. Family farms like Solberg's may seem unsuited to the demands of a dynamic global economy and his concerns as distant from most Americans' as his heartland farm is from their homes. But don't be so sure. Last year, the National Commission on Small Farms established by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman debunked widely cast aspersions on the efficiency and productivity of small family farms. It concluded that family farm decline is driven not by necessities of the market, but rather federal policy biases favoring large-scale corporate enterprise. Federal farm income support programs illustrate the bias. The bigger and richer a farm grows, the more money it gets from these programs. The big are subsidized to devour the small. Federally funded research programs have focused on developing expensive technologies that enable large farms to grow larger. They've helped agribusiness corporations capture a large share of the profit in agriculture by selling ever more expensive seeds, chemicals and equipment to farmers. Research to develop new knowledge that would enable family size farms to reduce farm input expenditures and earn a better living on modest size operations has been overlooked.

72. Focus Emergency Aid On Family Farms' Future -- Center For Rural Affairs
    August 1999 Focus Emergency Aid on family farms' Future. By CHUCK HASSEBROOK. Butwe also need urgently to create a future for family farms and ranches.  
    http://www.cfra.org/newsroom/op_eds/Focus_Emergency.htm
    
    Extractions: www.cfra.org August 1999 Focus Emergency Aid on Family Farms' Future By CHUCK HASSEBROOK The emergency farm appropriation that recently passed the Senate would provide a needed tourniquet to a bleeding farm economy, but it is seriously flawed. Short term help is needed. But we also need urgently to create a future for family farms and ranches. This legislation does not. And in one important respect it undermines their long-term future by subsidizing the consolidation of farming into a few mega operations. The Senate would effectively double the limitation on farm program payments for the year - allowing one farmer to draw up to $460,000 in federal payments. For a father and two sons farming together, the limit would be almost $1.4 million and provide full payments on 15,000 to 20,000 acres of corn and soybeans. Proponents of this action argue that the mega operations that benefit - among the largest fraction of a percent of the nation's farms - are still family owned and should therefore get government support on every acre. They worry that payment limitations unfairly penalize success. They miss the point. It is not punitive to put limits on government assistance. The obligations of government are limited. Government should take steps to provide genuine opportunity to all. It should not take tax dollars from modest income Americans to help the wealthy become wealthier.

73. Phillips Family Farms - Warren County, Indianola, Iowa
    Copyright 20022003 Phillips family farms, Indianola, Iowa. Web site designby Design By Linda - Affordable Web Site DesignDes Moines, Iowa. Site Meter.  
    http://www.phillipsfamilyfarms.com/
    
    Extractions: Items for Sale Contact Us Phillips Family Farms, established in 1995, is a family-owned and operated farm involving Garry and Sarah Phillips. The home farm is located in Indianola, Iowa with additional farming operations located within Warren County Iowa. Our farming operation consists of raising quality alfalfa hay as well as our latest expansion into ornamental/shade trees. In addition to farming we offer a nice line of new trailers as well as used acreage tractors, implements and vintage tractor parts for all major tractor brands, including: Allis Chalmers, Case, Farmall, Ferguson, Ford, International, John Deere, Massey Ferguson and Oliver.

74. Organic Vermont Future
    demand. Organic can be a lifeline for Vermont's struggling familyfarms. It Organic Saving America's family farms. The viability  
    http://www.newfarm.org/news/012403/organic_VT_future.shtml
    
    Extractions: MONTPELIER, Vermont, January 18, 2003 CropChoice news via Agnet from a press release: In testimony before the Vermont House and Senate Committees on Agriculture held in the Senate Chamber tonight, Vermont dairy farmer Travis Forgues, a member of the Organic Valley Family of Farms cooperative's Vermont pool, called on Vermont "to become a champion of the new organic era." "Consumer demand for organic milk is booming and Vermont should step up to the plate to meet this demand. Organic can be a lifeline for Vermont's struggling family farms. It can bring our children the future we want to them to have," said Forgues, 29, a father of two, who milks 70 cows in partnership with his father, Henry, on 240 acres in Alburg, VT. In his testimony on "The Current Status of Agriculture in Vermont," Forgues announced record pay prices for the members of his organic pool. "Organic Valley's Vermont pool members are getting an average of $23.36 per hundredweight of milk, well over the conventional farmer pay price of $11.85* per hundredweight," said Forgues. "In 2002, our Vermont pool sold 18 million pounds of Organic Valley milk and 9.5 percent of it went into our own locally- produced line, Organic Valley's New England Pastures."

75. Does Size Matter? The Future Family Farms National Workshop » ABC Central Victo
    Small family farms are an important part of our rural landscape But little is knownabout how they fit into the bigger picture What is their contribution to  
    http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s599340.htm

76. Good Food Direct! | Duff Family Farms Booth
    Duff family farms. GFD! Home. BuyLocal Guide. Duff family farms Plants,Herbs, Vegetables. The Good Ole Way Eggs, Herbs, Soap.  
    http://www.goodfooddirectnet.com/duff.html
    
    Extractions: GFD! Home BuyLocal Guide Duff Family Farms Plants, Herbs, Vegetables The Good Ole Way Eggs, Herbs, Soap Gourmet Cheesecakes Cheesecakes Green Edge Gardens Vegetables, Greens Harmony Hollow Farms Pork John Gillogly Orchard Fruit, Berries Ohio Farm Direct Rich Gardens Organic Farm Vegetables, lettuces Rockin' B Farm Piedmontese Beef cuts The Village Bakery Breads, Cafe Willow Organic Farm Greens, Flowers, Vegetables GFD! BuyLocal Extended Guide You're invited

77. Catskill Family Farms Information Site
    Catskill family farms Cooperative provide fingerlingand specialty potatoes and more.  
    http://www.catskillfamilyfarms.info/

78. Dunton Family Farms Page
    Dunton family farms. The family farm is located in the beautiful WillametteValley of Western Oregon. Our ancestors moved here from  
    http://www.dunton.org/farm.htm
    
    Extractions: Dunton Family Farms The family farm is located in the beautiful Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. Our ancestors moved here from Maine, after a brief stay in Iowa and Kansas, in the late 1800s. Great-grandfather, Victor Hugo Dunton, built the house and farm at which we live. Our children are the 5th generation of Duntons to be raised on this land and 6th in the community. Because the farm is nearly 100 years old, we have worked since early 1988 repairing, renovating and replanting. We have devoted most of our resources - time and money - to this endeavor. We raise vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, nuts, and grass hay, along with laying hens, cats, and a couple of dogs. Click here to view the farm's main Web site, find a detailed history, or see what is currently "farm fresh": http://www.victoryseeds.com/dunton Our family owns and operates an old time seed company. Our mission is provide our gardening friends and customers with high quality, open-pollinated and heirloom (non-hybrid) seed varieties under our packet seed brand of The Victory Seed Company . We strive to promote the practices of sustainable agriculture, organic practices, seed saving and general stewardship of those things which have been entrusted to us during our short stay on this planet. You can find Victory Seeds on the Web at

79. Welcome To Jones Family Farms
    http://www.jonesfamilyfarm.com/

80. Parade Of Family Farms Set
    Parade of family farms to Highlight Farm Issues, Encourage Action byConsumers. 2/2/01, more on factory farm issues. For More Information  
    http://www.wsn.org/factoryfarm/farmparade.html
    
    Extractions: Wisconsin Farmers Union and the Izaak Walton League of Western Wisconsin are co-sponsoring a Parade of Family Farms in Pierce County on February 17, 2001, to help heighten awareness of the ongoing farm crisis and its impact on all segments of the community. The Parade includes visits to four Pierce County family farms, and allows consumers the opportunity to see how their food is produced and what can be done to support local farmers. The parade will be followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Larry Swain, professor of Agriculture Economics at UW-River Falls. The farmers on the Parade offer a broad cross-section of Wisconsin family farm agriculture—from organic to conventional—in the year 2001. Participating farmers include Julie Kenefick, a sheep producer from River Falls, Wi; Maureen Ash, a potato and vegetable farmer from River Falls; Jean Rohl, beef, grain farmer and small specialty business owner from Prescott, Wi; and Ed Fiedler, dairy farmer from Prescott, Wi. Wisconsin Farmers Union and the Izaak Walton League of Western Wisconsin are urging consumers from across the area to participate in the Parade and to demonstrate their support for Wisconsin farmers, rural businesses and rural communities. This is a wonderful opportunity for consumers to gather and learn about family farming and what actions they can take to support their local farmers.

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