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 83

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Johnson felt called back to the land in 2010 after living in California for 18 years. Johnson laughs.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 107

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 Agriculture Farming 113

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 117

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 105

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

I have been lucky enough to have stewardship over a 300-acre dairy farm in West Wales for over 50 years during which time we have been producing milk, cheese, meat and vegetables – all without the use of any chemical fertilisers, doing our best to farm in harmony with nature. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 112

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption. Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. Photo submitted.

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Food Pasture Agriculture Livestock 136

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We The Homestead grows vegetables, herbs, grains, and animals such as ducks, pigs, and chickens. She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 116

Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. But the grain surpluses incentivized by the Wall Street Farm Bill led to subsidized cheap feed, giving rise to the sorts of industrial factory farms that make up the Hog Baron’s empire.

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Family Farming Acre Farming Farming 69

Trimble Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

Soybeans Soybean plantings are predicted to fall by nearly three million acres in the 2023/2024 marketing year. Cattle and Calves After dwindling herd numbers shrunk supply last year, beef producers saw sharp prices increases. Experts are optimistic that cattle numbers could fully recover to previous levels by 2025.

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Marketing Net Farm Income Agriculture Agriculture 104

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Tesdell’s farm is not the typical Iowa farm, which averages 359 acres.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 143

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 144

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

Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. Nearly three-fourths of farmland was used by oilseed and grain farms (32%) and beef cattle operations (40%). • In 2022, there were 1.2

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 52

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve visited 10 farms, most of them several hundred sheep on more than 1,000 acres. One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. As soon as the lambs can quit drinking milk replacer, they go on grain to grow as fast as possible. I should be home Monday afternoon. Here are the protocols.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre. However, medium and short-grain rice will likely remain the same at $24.80 Because of this shrinking herd number, cattle and calves may experience lower quantities sold this year. rice, with an anticipated increase of $1 per cwt, to a total of $15.50

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But now, the position that these farmers find themselves in, is that they have become commodity slaves, encouraged by the supermarkets and food companies to produce the cheapest possible milk, beef, grain and vegetables. The retailers and food companies don’t even refer to buying crops anymore.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

It came from putting into practice what I was learning about adaptive grazing, cow nutrition, raising environmentally adapted cattle, and epigenetics from Allen’s and Gabe’s sharing their hard-earned and hard-learned lessons, as well as their insights. We can start by doing the same things we do in a row-crop or small-grain field.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 72

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 98

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Both cattle and sheep are kept in large numbers and grazed on a paddock or strip system. More government aid is required.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. Of the 160-acres, Jenna and Thomas steward 25-acres to grow organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers and raise honeybees. That feels like a good place to be.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

Manske runs conventional crop operations in Iowa and Minnesota, including managing a 1,000-acre family farm in northern Iowa, and primarily plants a rotation of corn and soybeans. Environmental Protection Agency, nitrogen fertilizer sales increased from 17 pounds per acre in 1960 to 83.6 pounds per acre in 2013.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 141

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 141

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Through this program, they work with cattle ranchers to steward ranchlands, which supports birds’ natural habitats. GRAIN , International Working across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, GRAIN supports small farmers and social movements trying to achieve community-controlled food systems that prioritize biodiversity.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s running a $5 million project that will convert manure from a woman-owned cattle feedlot into organic fertilizer and distribute it to BIPOC and other underserved farmers in urban and high poverty areas in Ohio and southeast Michigan. The situation at Central State University looks very different.

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Manure Distribution Fertilizer Farming 111

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. Dave Ramsey would be proud.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

That changed, however, after Moyer and her partner established an organic farm on 10 acres in the Sierra foothills of California. In On Gold Hill , Moyer weaves together her attempt to grow the grain with the story she unearths of her family through the generations. Might this obscure wheat contain within it a door to my own heritage?”

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Food Farming Farming Forage 144

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Today, the aquifer supports 20% of the nation’s wheat, corn, cotton and cattle production and represents 30% of all water used for irrigation in the United States. The once-abundant water allowed farmers to grow cheap cattle feed, attracting the feedlots, and increasingly, dairy farms, that dot southwest Kansas. Map by McGuire, V.L.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. He gets more pounds out of his acres than most farmers by controlling the smaller operation personally.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 77

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

I even played soccer next to a Cargill grain elevator.” It is designed specifically to incentivize overproduction of grain. and drove down prices for cattle ranchers], Vilsack didn’t stop them. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. And there were caps—each farm could only get so much in subsidies.

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Food Farming Farming Marketing 145

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. By 2017, they accounted for only 1.6

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98