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Access to Capital: The Meek Ranch Family & Business Planning
2017-03-24 22:27:40| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Traditionally, Lakotas don’t have a background in farming or ranching, but they do have a strong heritage of cowboying and rodeo, explains Elsie Meeks. Meeks, 62, ranches on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with her husband, Jim, 71. “The Lakotas were a horse nation. Horses were essential to […]
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Access to Markets: Gleaning Survey for Fruit and Vegetable Producers
2017-03-24 15:47:31| National Farmers Union
Are you a fruit or vegetable producer? LiveWell Colorado and UpRoot are conducting a survey on gleaning, and they need your help. Gleaning is the act of gathering left over produce after a harvest. “Left over” produce includes seconds, imperfects, or produce that will not be sold/distributed for any reason; i.e., produce that is not economically […]
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Access to Markets: Gleaning
2017-03-21 17:49:31| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern For the past several months, we have been talking about how you, as a farmer, can access markets through technology, value-added goods, institutions, and more. Today, were going to flip the tables and talk about how markets can access you. Farmers feed people, a fact at the core of who we are […]
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Access to Land: Clark Ranch Family & Succession Planning
2017-03-17 16:39:35| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Middle of Nowhere might be the best way to describe the location of Pat and Barb Clark’s ranch, which is located on native rangeland 40 miles southeast of Lemmon and 30 miles east of Meadow. Homesteaded in 1915 by his grandfather, Avery Clark, and great-uncle, Harry, the Clarks, […]
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Access to Markets: Agritourism, Policy, & Rural Communities
2017-03-16 15:46:22| National Farmers Union
By Kriss Marion, Owner and Operator of Circle M Market Farm In America, children are fond of computer games. When my children were young, they played games called Age of Empires and Rise of Nations for hours. These games, still popular today, are strategy-based storylines for which each scenario begins with collecting resources sheep, coal, […]
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