A Lakeland microgreens business born from a homegrown pandemic project shows how small farms are evolving.

Across the United States, small farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms declined by about 140,000, a 7% drop, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of ...

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Many farming operations will either be passed on to a successor or wound down in the next few years. Here are some tips to ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Small farms are the fastest growing category of agricultural operations in the state, a University of Nebraska farm economist said. Greg Helmers said data from the 2002 U.S. Department of Agriculture ...