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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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Access to Efficiency: Kolousek Family & Intensive Grazing
2017-02-17 16:34:39| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Shadowing an engineer for a few days his sophomore year of college was all the exposure Scott Kolousek needed to realize he would be happier building a career on his family’s Wessington Springs cattle and crop farm. “That experience saved me a lot of time pursuing the wrong […]
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Access to Capital: Red Dog Farm & Farm Credit
2017-02-16 17:03:10| National Farmers Union
By Karyn Williams, owner of Red Dog Farm I didnt grow up in a farming family. In fact, I grew up in the suburbs of Seattle. My great-grandparents were farmers, back in Missouri, during the Dust Bowl years. When they moved out west with my then-6-year-old grandmother, I suspect they wished for a non-farming life for their […]
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Access to Capital: Farm Credit
2017-02-14 17:09:03| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern In previous weeks, the Beginning Farm Forum’s has presented several ways that beginning farmers and ranchers can access capital, including the Farm Service Agency and crowdfunding. Today, we’re examining Farm Credit, a national organization made up of over 70, member-owned cooperative associations that provide financial services to farmers, ranchers and rural business across the U.S. Farm Credit […]
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