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Organic farming

One reason organic food is typically priced higher? It costs more to produce.

by Stephanie Hughes
Jul 2, 2024
Because they grow without the use of most synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, organic farmers don’t have the same toolkit available to them.
Organic farmer Jennifer Paulk picks Colorado potato beetle larvae off some leaves on her farm in southern Maryland.
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This fourth-generation farmer cultivates new ideas

by Anais Amin
Aug 23, 2022
Amber Balakian went "to college thinking, 'I'm going to do something else and get away from everything.' I actually ended up coming back."
Amber Balakian, a co-owner of Balakian Farms in Fresno, California. "It's not always easy to make those changes ... but I think it's worth it in the end,” she says.
Ariana Velazquez
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As farmers age, they face the challenge of finding successors to take over

by Julia Mitric
May 21, 2019
Farmers across America are getting older and weighing the fate of their farms.
Alan Haight, 62, prunes apple trees at Riverhill Farm in Nevada City.
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Dairy farmers see organic label as a way to pay the bills

by Marketplace Contributor
Sep 27, 2016
The organic market's stable pricing is appealing to some dairy farmers.
Cows at the Knapp's dairy farm.
Eilis O'Neill
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How tobacco farms are going organic

by Marketplace Contributor
Nov 5, 2014
The federal program designed to help tobacco farmers transition from the depression-era quota system to the free market has officially ended.
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Cluck, cluck: Debating the merits of urban chickens

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 18, 2013
Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer explores the costs of putting a chicken coop in the backyard.
Chickens sit in their house in Heidi Kooy's yard, November 16, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
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Agriculture Secretary keeps eye on farm bill, organic farming

by Kai Ryssdal
May 15, 2013
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack hopes organic farming will help financially strapped small-scale farmers.
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Small farms struggle for startup funding

by Eve Troeh
Mar 8, 2013
More consumers want to buy food from small, local farms. But those types of growers are having a hard time getting start-up money.
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