Careful overhead cost management and strategic outsourcing can help smaller producers see significant cost benefits.

University of Kentucky’s Kenny Burdine shares strategies small operations should consider to improve their profitability.

A local farm in Westport has seen success from working with a local food hub as federal funding cuts create business challenges.

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

Beth and Brad Dorsey of Homeland Farms in Moro, Illinois, both grew up on dairy farms that slowly converted to beef ...

Pat and Rachel Lienemann's farm in Waseca began with four weaned heifers in 2021 and will harvest for the first time this year. Pat Lienemann on his farm in Waseca, Minnesota, on March 17, 2025, will ...

Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Despite their ingenuity, small farms are being pushed to the margins of California’s celebrated ag-tech boom.” ...