Students Stand up for Farming
Farmers Fight is a student-led initiative to reconnect American society to the world of agriculture. Beginning with university students, Farmers Fight encourages consumers to ask where their food comes...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Health Care Reform and NJ Farms
We’ve said in past articles, “Growers have to know a lot, about a lot” to be successful farming on the urban fringe. Farm operations are affected in innumerable ways by activities on Capitol Hill....
View ArticleCrisis Fatigue and Ag in the Middle
For over a year we’ve been talking about creating a program that would help Ag in the Middle farms better cope with the special problems of farming on the urban fringe. What’s the rub? This month,...
View ArticleFarming 7,500 acres by Cell Phone
This month in Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe: First Generation Farmer of the Future – 7,500 acres conventional & organic cash grains by cell phone. We dig deep into the nature of ag...
View ArticleHigh Farmland Prices – Low Farmland Rents
This month in Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe – High Farmland Value, Low Farmland Rent: Unintended Consequences, we explore how extraordinary high NJ cropland values became coupled with...
View ArticleMotivating Farmers to Attend Worthwhile Extension Programs
The itinerant teacher will be expected to give as much thought to the economic side of agriculture as he gives to the matter of larger acreage yields. Congressman A.F. Lever of South Carolina, US House...
View ArticleEffective Political Communications
It is important that farmers be involved in policy decisions at the local, state, and federal level because quite often those charged with making policy do not farm and may not realize the impact their...
View ArticleLegislating the Lust for “Local”
New rules are being proposed regarding farm products sold in NJ designated as “local.” Learn how the proposed rules will affect you and send your comments regarding N.J.A.C. 2:71-10 before July 3, 2015...
View ArticleWhere Have All the Farmers Gone?
The 2012 Census of Agriculture reported the existence of 9,071 farms in the Garden State. Since the previous 2007 Census had reported 10,327 farms, some in the ag community were quick to express...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Deer Damage is Back with a Vengeance
This past week we heard from a New Jersey grower direct from the cab of his hi-tech combine as he was harvesting soybean. The yield monitor in the cab was showing him huge yield differences in...
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