My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.
The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.
I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.
I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
In Arizona, where farm dust is currently regulated, farmers are forced to park tractors on windy days to prevent getting strapped with outrageous fines.