July 29, 2026

Stonyfield Organic seeks to buy more milk from family farms

The Hardy Farm, a 400-acre longtime organic family farm in Farmington, Maine, switched to selling its milk directly to Stonyeld Organic on Aug. 1, 2025. The Hardy Farm has been a certied organic dairy farm since October 2003, shipping rst to Horizon Organic and later to Or - ganic Valley.

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More than maple: How sugarbush structure supports forest birds

by Joseph Armstrong

July 29, 2026

The U.S. bird population has been declining by the millions for several decades. Thankfully, there is a growing interest in managing sugarbushes as an...

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Make stories part of your advocacy in ag

by Deborah J. Sergeant

July 29, 2026

Your farm’s story can help promote agriculture. Considering that most Americans are at least two generations removed from agriculture, it’s more impor...

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Decoding alphabet soup: Medicare price hikes & avoiding fraud

July 29, 2026

Penn State Extension program specialist in ag economics, sociology and education Paula Ledney urges farmers to familiarize themselves with Medicare an...

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Crop Comments: Ontario wildfires – Déjà vu all over again

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July 29, 2026

Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra once said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” This phrase linked the French term déjà vu, meaning “already seen,” to the...