From rice paddies to boil pots: The muddy work required to grow Texas crawfish

For Texas rice farmers determined to hang onto their land, crawfish offer clear benefits. Omnivores and swamp creatures at ...
Modern Farmer

Small-Scale Farming Shouldn’t Just Be a Hobby. So Why Is It So Hard to Make a Living?

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...
Modern Farmer

The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...
WWNO

Crawfish prices are finally dropping, but farmers and fishers say they're still struggling

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought. It's a cloudy day in mid-March, and ...
katc

Spring update: State of the crawfish industry

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — For those of you who have been asking for CRAWDAQ to come back, today is your lucky day. While this is not an official CRAWDAQ report, we will be taking a look at the average ...
Click2Houston

Craving crawfish? Chris Shepherd visits a Louisiana crawfish farm and then finds some of the best mudbugs in Houston

This is the time of year many look forward to -- the rodeo is in town, spring is in the air, and piping hot crawfish are being poured onto tables at restaurants and backyard boils. While the season ...
American Farm Bureau Federation

Small Family Farms, The Roots of American Agriculture

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, ...