Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program

Putting Out the Welcome Mat for New Agrarians

September 30, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act of 2011, beginning farmers, Deutsch Family Farm, Jim and Alison Deutsch, Land Stewardship Project, LSP's Farm Beginning, rural communities, USDA

There are numerous ways of communicating the value society places on having more family farmers on the land, not fewer. This morning, the USDA announced it was awarding $18 million in grants…
Taking the Beginning Farmer Message to D.C.

June 15, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, beginning farmers, BFRDP, Congress, Farm Beginnings, LSP fly-in, Nolan Lenzen, USDA

By Anna Cioffi, LSP Policy Organizer As you read this, central Minnesota farmer and LSP member Nolan Lenzen is in Washington, D.C., carrying a simple, but critical, message: agriculture is a growing…