University of Delaware Cooperative Extension has recently taken an alternative approach to offering farm succession planning workshops. In cooperation with the University of Maryland Agriculture Law ...

In June 2025, the Linking Agriculture and Aquaculture Farm Vitality and Health Forum was held to connect agriculture, aquaculture, and health care community members and to discuss the physical, ...

Farm operations encounter many more challenges than other businesses. Considerations like production risk, weather challenges and livestock demands can quickly become a detriment to an unplanned and ...

Good planning is the key to progress and success, whether it is a green-field start-up, the expansion of an existing enterprise or a new entrant taking over the family farm. Setting achievable goals ...

Are you ready to design your small farm right from the beginning? Sure, you've been planning it in your head for years. Now you're ready - you have the time and energy, and you've possibly even bought ...

Farm Journal is celebrating the next generation of American agriculture. Our goal is to encourage you to plan for the future and cultivate multigenerational success through the transfer of skills and ...

Environmental scientists and water resource managers need precise, high-resolution maps to reveal areas that farmers should avoid when planting crops, to limit polluting waters with phosphorus from ...

Booker T. Whatley at his home in Montgomery. You might say that the problems facing America’s small farms are like the weather: Everybody talks about them, but nobody does anything about them. After ...

Farm transition planning is often the elephant in the room during holidays and family gatherings. The conundrum of how to effectively pass a legacy on to the next generation is one that every ...