Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. In fact, now I am a regenerative farmer.”

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. Virtual fencing is gaining traction in American agriculture because it can save farmers time and money. At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. This doesn’t just create problems in local drinking water wells.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. This week’s post adds stories created and gathered by National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) members around the country.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. She and Rafkin had a goal of adding diversity and value to her family’s farm through organic agriculture, but they found few organic farmers in the area at the time and none that were implementing agroforestry.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But the farm is one of relatively few examples of agrivoltaics —or combined agriculture and photovoltaic array systems—on private land in California, where the technology has been surprisingly slow to gain visibility and traction. Internationally, many countries in Europe and Asia are ahead of the U.S.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. We can’t escape the season of mud, but there are some management strategies that can help minimize the number of impacted acres.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. The burgeoning human population, however, means agricultural impacts are only set to increase. Agriculture already takes up over half of U.S. Runoff from U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

The following narrative describes our context, explains how we began and how we are advancing in regenerative agriculture. Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.” Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 7, 2025

They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. But these differences mean very little.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 7, 2025

They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. But these differences mean very little.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. Being in Switzerland was a reminder that agriculture need not be the problem.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

“We started with that largely because we want to get out of commodity agriculture,” Payne said. Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Here we are planting trees in our pastures, so that in 10 to twelve years we can have dappled shade.”

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently published its first ever Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands. Grasslands cover nearly 70 percent of global agricultural area, according to a paper published in Agronomy. In terms of the assessment’s impact on U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

farm income is on the decline, partly due to an anticipated drop in total cash receipts for key agricultural commodities. In this article, we dive deeper into the forecasted decline in agricultural commodity cash receipts and the factors involved so you can be more informed when it comes to your operation’s financial future.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 2, 2024

million acres, down from its 2007 peak of 36.7 million acres in 15 years, a 44% decline. million acres, an 11.8% Each dot denotes a 1,000-acre change. The General CRP enrollment, the original program, accounted for just 37% of total program acres, or 8.4 million acres, at the end of 2023. Change in U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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Todays Farmer Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Missouri landowners, agricultural lenders, rural appraisers and others with firsthand knowledge of acreage transactions are invited to respond to the annual Missouri Farmland Value Opinion Survey. Respondents of the 2023 survey said they expected land prices to increase in 2024, particularly in the western region of Missouri.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” I was so excited. Things started working.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

Disruption is a normal part of agriculture and natural systems. The pasture was divided with permanent division fences to create multiple paddocks, and across a broad valley on the far hillside, I noted that one of the small permanent paddocks really stood out across the green pasture. We want to mix things up.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Missouri Climate Resilient Crop and Livestock (CRCL) Project helps farmers implement climate-smart agricultural practices through direct payments and education. Participants will also submit a soil sample from each enrolled pasture. Applications are open until January 31, 2025.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

White Bison Farm is located on 78 acres just outside of Laona, in the heart of the Chequamegon National Forest. Situated in the Wisconsin northwoods, Dave and Jodi Cronauer raise Idaho Pasture Pigs, American Bison, and Gypsy Vanner Horses on their farm and they manage the Idaho Pasture Pig Registry. Our meat is nutrient-dense.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 22, 2024

This Earth Day, the National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) is launching our Young Farmer Voices campaign, which aims to amplify the stories of young and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) farmers across our network who are building a brighter and more just future for agriculture in the U.S.

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Tillable

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These updates collectively set a new standard in agricultural intelligence, helping you save time and optimize your ROI. Lease by Acre Type: Make data-driven decisions to optimize land investment Our new ‘Lease by Acre Type’ feature lets you lease out your farm based on acre types like irrigated, dryland, and pasture.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Over the years, this has caused pH levels to drop to 5 and below, according to Dr. Francisco Calderon, director of the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center. Michigan, the state shaped like a mitten, has acidic soils up towards its fingertips and alkaline soils down in its palm, where agricultural consultant Jesse Vollmar lives.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. And everywhere he looked, trees had leafed out.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist! Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College’s program may be one of the most extensive culinary-agriculture curriculums, but there are others.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. Eric spent months refurbishing his grandfather’s various farm buildings—and putting up new ones—to house hogs and make the most of nine acres. “I He and his wife Mikala transformed the property and now raise pigs with their two young children.

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Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By Eddy Labus , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist I am sure most of you have seen the pictures and heard about the damage Hurricane Helene caused in the Southern Appalachians. Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. Davis agricultural economics professor Daniel Sumner. “It

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