Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

Over a 50 year time period, the returns from grain farming are $508/acre higher than cow-calf production, according to the research modelling. Read More

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Acre Grain Ranching Crop 130

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 14, 2025

I did a live audience-driven economic comparison between growing corn and cows and cattle beat corn by about $200 an acre. Without the subsidies, which have pushed raw farmland higher than $20,000 an acre in Iowa, farmers might start making better decisions.

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Farming Farming Plowing Acre 106

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 260

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

Real Agriculture

JULY 13, 2023

The federal and Saskatchewan governments have announced a change to crop insurance offered by Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) to allow more acres of low-yielding crops to be redirected to help livestock producers.

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Crop Yield Livestock Acre 228

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

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

Forage 98

Forage Livestock Cattle Acre 98

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.

Cattle 144

Cattle Food Acre Ranching 144

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

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.

Cattle 52

Cattle Forage Livestock Acre 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. During the year, the cattle are moved to new grazing. This happened not only on the Maggie Creek Ranch but the public lands where Griggs’s cattle grazed. Cattle had more and better-quality drinking water.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 125

ProAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It protects against increased costs related to a lack of precipitation in your haying and grazing acres used to feed cattle. PRF insurance is a federal area-based program primarily designed to help cattle producers who raise forage acres to feed their herds. Salemme said. How does PRF insurance work?

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Forage Pasture Cattle Crop 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 125

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

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 90

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

Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

Agwired

APRIL 1, 2025

The largest cattle industry event of the year will be held in the heart of Music City, home of honky-tonks, history and hearty food. Attend a Stockmanship & Stewardship event this year to experience premier cattle industry education. According to new report from CoBanks Knowledge Exchange , the historic pace of change in U.S.

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Poultry Cattle Food Logistics 45

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 Grain Cattle 62

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 Farming Farming Pasture 127

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 46

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

UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It is crucial that you understand how to estimate forage DM availability per acre so you can build appropriately sized paddocks. Intact Bale Grazing Cattle will eat about 50- 60% of the hay and the remainder will become trampled to supply new carbon (C) and organic matter (SOM) to the soil. Figure about 50% consumption of each bale.

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Pasture Forage Cattle Livestock 58

Modern Farmer

MARCH 3, 2025

Rocky Acres Farm, a member of the Black Farmer Fund. Ozell White, a Mississippi cattle and watermelon farmer, participated in Jubilee Justices rice growing project. Some are members of BFFs $1.1 Photography by Onyx Ramirez. Potlikker aims to work with 300 businesses, including distributors, processors, and producers.

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Mechanics Manufacturing Food Beverage 83

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

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 103

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

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