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

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. 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.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 141

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. It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. cow needs 36 lbs.

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Pasture Forage Cattle Livestock 54

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 115

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. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

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 Livestock 143

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

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

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

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

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

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 126

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. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Haying eventually stopped, and mowing stopped, too.

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Meadow Farming Farming Orchard 45

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

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

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

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was so refreshing to hear the experiences of two farmers, Richard Gantlett of Yatesbury House Farm, a 1500+ acre beef and arable holding in Wiltshire and Iain Tolhurst (a.k.a. The equivalent impact in the pastures of the west of the UK is when you see a field that that suddenly goes yellow. That is also Roundup.

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Ploughing Cultivation Pesticide Farming 69

Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) hailed the House passage of two significant land management bills that are strongly supported by Americas livestock producers: the ACRES Act and the Fix Our Forests Act.

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Supply Chain Livestock Farming Farming 45

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

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This is correct, but what they don’t factor in is the inter-relationship between the emissions from those same grazing animals and the pastures they eat, which, if correctly managed, can be a major source of carbon sequestration. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 112

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 101

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. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

Every morning, Amish farmer Amos Miller, who lives on 75 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA., He also raises beef cattle and 150 pigs that dine on whey and organic oats, as well as chickens that peck for insects among the greenery. gets up early to milk 43 Jersey cows.

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Production Food Cattle Farming 117

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The 260-acre ranch butts up against the West Elk Mountains, four miles east of the West Elk Wilderness, almost smack-dab in the middle of where gray wolves could be released this winter. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. Every few years, he said, all 260 acres will be grazed.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 112

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. That’s already happening in San Diego, with successful results.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 136

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 billion in payments to agricultural producers and landowners enrolled in all CRP programs, and more than 23 million acres of private land in the US was being conserved.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 96

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Farmland Food Farming Farming 128

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm. But here are a few to show the use cases of using precision data today. By analyzing aerial imagery, they were able to pinpoint areas suffering from nutrient deficiencies on their farm.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 96

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Relatively few regions in the UK are well suited for arable farming, and most upland areas are ideal only for raising cattle and sheep. The permanent pastures of the uplands in this area are rich in biodiversity and an excellent habitat, in particular, for ground nesting birds. At present he farms 485 acres, of which he owns 160.

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 69

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

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 145

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. As part of that study, he says, “We are trying to produce and grow plants and animals that we need, and want to harvest them as close by as we can.”

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 89

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 12, 2022

Back in 1989 we traded 30 acres of timber in three spots for 3 miles of all-weather road that for the first time gave us access to our entire acreage. After the road went in, I chose a two-acre ridge-top to start my conversion from forest back to the pre-European pasture the Native Americans maintained with fire.

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Acre Pasture Cattle Harvester 52