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Stoney Acres: The original pizza farm

Western FarmPress

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

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Meet the 4th Generation Rancher Driving a Regenerative Cattle Collective Forward

Modern Farmer

For Cory Carman, choosing to raise cattle outside of the feedlot system always seemed intuitive. Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It And it was the first time I’d been around feedlots before,” she says.

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The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming

Modern Farmer

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms. We have answers!

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Book Excerpt: Commodities and Consolidation

Food Tank

Instead of growing a variety of crops and raising animals, most farms now rely on a commodity crop or two. That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed.

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A Farmer’s Lifelong Love of Conservation

Wisconsin Farmers Union

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. 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.

Acre 98
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Livestock are Dying in the Heat. This Little-Known Farming Method Offers a Solution

Modern Farmer

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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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

Meet some Midwestern agrarians, some of whom come from conventional farming families, who are using their land to reestablish the connection between trees, animals, and food production. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa.

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