Supporting Invest An Acre
Monsanto’s Beyond the Rows: Led by the Howard Buffett Foundation, Monsanto has joined with ADM and Feeding America to sponsor the Invest an Acre program, which aims to raise awareness about rural hunger and mobilize the agricultural community to get involved and help address the issue. It is the first effort of its kind to mobilize farmers, agri-business and nonprofits on a national scale to support rural hunger relief. View Full Article Here…
Read MoreHoward Buffett Launches Program to Feed Rural America
RFD TV The Magazine “Invest An Acre”, a program initiated by The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Feeding America, is the first wide-scale effort to organize U.S. farmers to support hunger relief. One out of six people in the U.S. go hungry. Problems associated with hunger are not just confined to certain areas, or neighborhoods. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 14.7 percent of rural households were consistently short on food. The Invest an Acre program makes it easy for farmers to make an impact and to help feed those going...
Read MoreRural TV Video: A Unique Partnership with U.S. Farmers…
A unique partnership with U.S. farmers to support hunger relief kicked off today in Omaha, Nebraska. Invest an Acre, a national campaign created by The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, launched with a ceremonial planting of an acre of corn and one acre of soybeans. From here, U.S. farmers will be organized to donate a portion of their harvested crops back into their community. Rural TV and RFD TV are proud to be the media sponsors which gives us an opportunity to bring the program to our viewers all across America and the world. View Video...
Read MoreAnti-Hunger Drive Relies on Farmers’ Bounty
June 17, 2012 Omaha.com Two Gottsches and a Buffett climbed aboard a 1967 John Deere in Elkhorn last week, planting the seeds for the nation’s farmers to support local food banks. The tractor ride kicked off a campaign that will include a live broadcast on RFD-TV in August, a documentary that traces a crop from planting to sale and an appearance in the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day — a float trailed by antique tractors buzzing down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif. The Gottsches were Patrick, the president of RFD-TV’s Rural Media Group, and his brother,...
Read MoreRFD-TV/RURAL TV ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR HOWARD G. BUFFETT FOUNDATION’S “INVEST AN ACRE” CAMPAIGN
Jun. 15, 2012 Source: RFD-TV/RURAL TV news release The national launch of the RFD-TV/RURAL TV promotional campaign in support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation’s “Invest An Acre” was celebrated yesterday with a planting of the first-ever two acres on a small farm located near Elkhorn, Nebraska. One acre of corn and one acre of soybeans were symbolically planted by RFD-TV and RURAL TV to represent the support of the American farmer for the Buffett initiative in conjunction with ADM and Feeding America. Howard W. Buffett and Patrick Gottsch, Founder/President Rural Media...
Read MoreHoward Buffett Announces ‘Invest an Acre’ Program in Decatur, Discusses Immigration Reform
Warren Buffett’s son Howard, who is a Decatur, IL farmer, recently announced the Invest an Acre partnership with Feeding America, and Archer Midland Company. The partner ship between the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Feeding America and the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) engages U.S. farmers in helping provide food to their neighbors. Through Invest An Acre, farmers are able to invest the proceeds from one acre or more of their crops in Feeding America to support their local food bank. This is the first effort to mobilize farmers on a national scale to support hunger relief. View Full...
Read MoreINVEST AN ACRE” PROGRAM LAUNCHED, ENCOURAGES FARMERS TO FEED THEIR NEIGHBORS
Agrimarketing The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Feeding America and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) today established Invest An Acre, an innovative partnership that engages U.S. farmers in helping provide food to their neighbors. Through Invest An Acre, farmers are able to invest the proceeds from one acre or more of their crops in Feeding America to support their local food bank. This is the first effort to mobilize farmers on a national scale to support hunger relief. Feeding America is the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, providing food assistance to people...
Read MoreHoward Buffett Foundation, ADM Launch Effort to Fight Hunger in U.S.
Philanthropy News Digest The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and Archer Daniels Midland have announced the launch of the Invest an Acre initiative, which is designed to encourage U.S. farmers to donate the profits from the sale of an acre or more of their crops to Feeding America. Established by the farming son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the foundation will create an opportunity for farmers doing business with ADM to invest a portion of their proceeds at the point of sale, either when the farmer signs a contract or delivers a crop. It also will underwrite all Feeding America costs...
Read MoreFrom the Field to the Food Pantry
Decatur, Ill. (The Wall Street Journal) By Melanie Grayce West The solitude and meditative hum inside the cab of a John Deere tractor give Howard G. Buffett a place to think. The middle child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett and the future nonexecutive chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Buffett, along with his foundation, owns 3,780 acres of farmland across three counties in central Illinois. He bumps along rows of corn and soybeans in a tractor outfitted with a GPS system, air-conditioning, a radio, an iPad and a cellphone. It was in this rolling office that the roots of an idea took...
Read MoreHoward Buffett helps start rural feeding program
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Farmer and philanthropist Howard G. Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, wants to enlist fellow food producers in a new campaign to fight hunger in rural America. Buffett and other organizers planned to announce the “Invest an Acre” initiative Thursday. It will encourage farmers around the nation to donate profits from the sale of 1 acre’s crop to the charity Feeding America, which will use the money to support food banks in rural communities where advocates say malnutrition is a serious — if often overlooked —...
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