The Brighter Future Fund continues to assist farmers and ranchers in successfully launching, growing, and sustaining their farms, awarding over $1 million.
American Farmland Trust announced that over 200 farmers would be receiving grants of up to $5,000 each through the Brighter Future Fund.
American Farmland Trust New York Regional Director Erica Goodman has been named director of the Farms for a New Generation program.
The Brighter Future Fund aims to help farmers improve farm viability, access, transfer or to permanently protect farmland or adopt regenerative practices.
Over 350 million acres of farmland and ranchland across America, is rented or leased, most not owned by the farmers and ranchers working the land.
American Farmland Trust launched the Farming is Our Future initiative, which aims to elevate the approaches AFT has developed over decades.
The report underscores agriculture’s unique role as a “natural climate solution” critical to limiting the effects of global warming.
We can’t afford to ignore the fate of our farmland. It sustains us, our loved ones, our friends and neighbors. We must save agriculture.
What’s at stake when we pave over, fragment, and otherwise fail to halt the devastation that farmland development can cause on our food system?
Farmer Relief Fund started sending out $1,000 grant checks to 1,000 farmers across the country as Americans witnessed unprecedented disruptions.