Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The acreage is going down, too: There are about 879 million acres being farmed, down slightly from the 900 million acres growing crops or feeding animals in 2017. A cattle ranch educates customers Eagle Rock Ranch was founded in 1868 by Louis Holst as a working cattle and hay operation. And we replanted five acres.”

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ranching 94

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

raising hogs, cattle, vegetables — and pizza. Tony Schultz put his own twist on the diversified family farm in Athens, Wis.,

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Acre Farming Farming Family Farming 97

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 23, 2024

Saskatchewan has approximately 6 million acres of Crown land under grazing leases. The Government of Saskatchewan is freezing the 2024 Crown land grazing rates at 2022 levels, as the industry continues to deal with the effects of several years of dry conditions, the province says. Crown grazing rates are set annually using a formula based.

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Acre Cattle Livestock 277

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 19, 2023

On this weekend’s show, host Shaun Haney talks with; Ryder Lee, Canadian Cattle Association, on pushing back on Bill C-282; Rick Rutherford, farmer from Manitoba, on why he opened up his 6,000-acre to farm research; and A clip from a recent Profitable Practices with Colin Rosengren of Midale, Sask., farmer on intercropping.

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Cattle Acre Farming Farming 130

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For Cory Carman, choosing to raise cattle outside of the feedlot system always seemed intuitive. Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Native grasses and herbs store carbon in the ground and provide forage for cattle.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 136

AgWeb Farm Journal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After the government twice flooded a farmer’s home and 900 acres, killed his cattle, and insisted he foot the bill, the Supreme Court will hear the case.

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Acre Cattle 134

Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

Samples were collected from irrigation waters, soil, sediments, air/dust, animal fecal material, wildlife scat, and other sources across approximately a 54 mile (7,000 acres) area of the southwest growing region.” [ It’s about time the FDA did this ]. What a surprise ]. The investigation’s findings “STEC [Shiga toxin-producing E.

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Texas Panhandle wildfires have consumed more than 500,000 acres. Homes and cattle have been lost as well. Donation supply points are being established.

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Livestock Acre Cattle 122

ProAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

PRF insurance is a federal area-based program designed to help protect a producers operation from forage loss risks due to lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. Essentially, its crop insurance for hay, whether your cattle graze on the acres or you bale your crop.

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Forage Pasture Acre Cattle 52

Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion pounds of food waste of which more than 75% was recycled into organic, nutrient-rich animal feed or made into customized formulations to address specific dietary concerns of cattle. Denali’s depackaging process enabled farmers to receive fertilizer and/or animal feed at no cost, saving them a minimum of $100 per acre.

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Fertilizer Manufacturing Acre Compost 49

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The increased diversity also provides more nutrient-dense pastures for our cattle to graze on. Instead, lets talk about cattle and making money. Yes, I said we are making more money with fewer cattle. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

West Texas Livestock

MAY 28, 2024

Hay bale storage, a vital aspect of cattle production, takes center stage, particularly in winter when natural forages are scarce. million acres of hay harvested in Texas in 2023 underscore the pivotal role of hay production in sustaining livestock operations. The staggering 4.6

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Forage Livestock Cattle Acre 88

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Brandon Davis Brandon helps manage a 12,000-acre operation alongside his father, running a small cow-calf herd of 50 head. He oversees cattle care, mechanical work on equipment, and plays a key role in planting, harvesting, and managing seasonal help. In addition to managing 30 head of stockers and 14 cows, he also trains horses.

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Ranching Cattle Mechanics Farming 52

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. Cattle are often fed a corn or soy diet instead of grass, which can lead to illness. He and his wife Nancy own a 150-acre grass-fed beef farm and use a rotational grazing method.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 142

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ember Cattle Company: A Soil for Water Case Study Becky Szarzynski Rockbridge County, Virginia Becky Szarzynski is the owner and operator of Ember Cattle Company in Fairfield in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Becky raises South Poll cattle as a cow-calf operation, breeds replacement heifers, and sells seed stock on 160-acres of land.

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Cattle Forage Livestock Acre 52

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

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Livestock Acre Cattle Ranching 145

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These metrics can differ depending on the size and type of your operation, but here are some key metrics every rancher should know: Cattle Gains Cattle gains is a measurement of the amount of weight gain (or loss) in cattle over time. Cattle Production Costs Production costs are the expenses associated with raising beef cattle.

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Cattle Ranching Acre Livestock 52

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore farms 800 acres, half of them are his, the other 400 acres are rented from two different landlords. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage. On his silage acres, he is testing herbal leys which do not need to be fertilised. A decision had to be made: hire staff or invest in infrastructure.

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Pasture Cattle Farming Farming 114

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. And so far this year, the trend is continuing, with livestock producers in Iowa already reporting hundreds of cattle deaths in the latter half of July alone.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98

AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

Jeff Hoogendoorn, Professional Ag Marketing, says corn may trade range bound until more is known about the weather for the 2024 planting season, but with only 90 million acres planted it will be sensitive to any issues.

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Marketing Acre Cattle Grain 62

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. Keeping the ground temperature steady, maintaining adequate soil moisture, moving the cattle at the right pace…it’s a lot to keep in mind. So, she’s learned how to build her land back up.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 89

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. Al Noorda of Cedar Fort, Utah started using fodder for his grass-fed beef cattle and horses in 2014, following years of drought at his mixed-use ranch.

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Cattle Technology Ranching Acre 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. Nofence’s collars cost $299 each for cattle and $199 for goats or sheep, and come with a five-year lifespan.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 110

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

In the back of my mind, I really wanted to add cattle to help mitigate risk and add another source of income and in 2016, we had the opportunity to custom raise grass-fed beef stockers for the summer, spending some days building high tensile fence a day ahead of the stockers. The spring frost date is May 17 and fall frost date is October 5.

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Pasture Acre Farming Farming 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 125

Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. The challenge: Between the two of them, the couple had limited agricultural experience, and none in cattle. As she put it, “Instead of getting a Covid puppy, we got cows.”)

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Ranching Cattle Farming Farming 113

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature.

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Meadow Farming Farming Orchard 45

Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage.

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Forage Livestock Farmland Distribution 85

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

And methane emissions from ruminants, like cattle, are another significant source of climate impacts. If we needed any further reminder about why this is so urgent, the thousands of acres of blackened, charred Los Angeles neighborhoods should be more than enough. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits.

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Food Pesticide Fertilizer Processing 93

Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years. The field was very skewed towards men.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 98

Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. The exhortation by Benson and Butz for farmers to “get big or get out” finally came to fruition, with the average size of a farm nearly doubling from 650 acres in 1987 to 1,201 acres twenty-five years later.

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Family Farming Acre Farming Farming 96

Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

After creating a plant-based meat alternative that caught the attention of the entire food system, Brown is now trying to figure out the best way to repurpose land once used by cattle and other livestock. The episode takes viewers inside what Brown calls the Carbon Ranchand Ill leave it at that. No spoilers! You can watch it for free HERE.

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Food Marketing Ranching Acre 52