They do a lot to support farmers, typically on the smaller scale side of farming. They have a farmers of color network that has grants to support infrastructure development. They focus on farm financial crisis, issues related to contracting and farming policy advocacy and they also focus on racial equity in farming. RAFI-USA is a farmer service organization in North Carolina, based in Pittsboro. It was a community supported effort, with farmer collaborators involved in each step of the project. Smolski works, several nonprofits, and farmers. Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA), was subsequently funded by Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) to collaborate with several universities including NCSU where Dr. Michael Shulman, and he began studying how farm stress influenced the treatment of livestock. Nearly three years ago, he was brought on board by Dr. Smolski is a postdoctoral research scholar in NCSU’s Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences at North Carolina State University. Smolski, North Carolina State University (NCSU), about the project in an ATTRA podcast, and he had some interesting things to say. Army, they taught us during training that “a busy Private was a happy Private,” and I would transmogrify that into a new statement: A happy farmer is a productive farmer. This project, however, was not about the land’s productivity but instead focused on farmer well-being. Normally, I help farmers improve their productivity by teaching them to look at their land differently, to bring out potential they hadn’t thought about and by working with Nature to create the profits they need. By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialistįor the last few years, I have been working with a few great organizations on a different sort of project for me.
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