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Access to Land: The Sumption Farm Family & Relationships with Neighbors
2017-04-07 17:36:29| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Communication can be a challenge when five brothers farm together. Sure, weekly meetings help, but the key to ensuring nothing falls through the cracks on the Sumption family farm has been the daily meal they share together, explains Taylor, 40. When you get a lot of things going on […]
Access to Land: The Sombke Farm Family & Succession Planning
2017-03-31 21:12:41| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Looking for a career path off the farm, Doug Sombke headed to college in 1978. However, only a few weeks into his freshman year, he was ready to pack up and head back to his family’s Conde farm. “Sitting in class I began to think of how many […]
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Access to Markets: SNAP & the Next Farm Bill
2017-03-28 18:18:45| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern The United States farm bill, as one would expect, addresses agricultural issues such as trade, conservation, and crop insurance. Some would be surprised, however, to learn that food stamps and nutrition programs are also included in the bill. In fact, the 2014 Farm Bill allocated $756 billion in spending over 10 years […]
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Access to Land: Ficke Farm Legacy Letter
2017-02-23 17:13:51| National Farmers Union
By Del Ficke, Owner and Operator of Ficke Cattle Company This letter was originally published in The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers’ Legacy Letter Project To my future generations: In 1860, Johann Ficke made the trip from Germany to settle in the United States. Just nine years later, after first arriving in Wisconsin, he found a […]
Access to Land: Farm Legacy Letters
2017-02-21 18:49:42| National Farmers Union
By Teresa Opheim, Editor of The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers Legacy Letter Project About five years ago, a farmer stopped during a farm tour and confided that he worried that his son would not be able to continue farming. The farmers land-owning mother had just died, and her farmland was being divided among her children. […]
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