Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A project let by TH Cattle Company is quantifying the soil and biomass impacts of climate-smart ranching practices and rewarding livestock producers through premiums for added-value beef. Over 5,000 acres of ranchland are participating by implementing climate-smart grazing practices that will enable access to these markets.

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Ranching Greenhouse Marketing Acre 59

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

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. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 122

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 117

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 137

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 81

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 Farming Farming Cattle 113

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

Real Estate 116

Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 116

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. I drove 10 hours round-trip for a three-hour conversation because he is a Western Slope cattle rancher who supports wolf reintroduction. “I

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 86

Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 7, 2024

The Texas panhandle fires, also known as the Smokehouse Creek fires, are a devastating blow to many cattle ranchers throughout the state, with more than a million acres caught in the blazes. How will the Texas panhandle fires impact the global cattle market? Fire and smoke could trigger pregnant cows to give birth prematurely.

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Cattle Agriculture Agriculture Marketing 52

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance. Context is also a way of explaining future goals.

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Pasture Acre Farming Farming 95

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

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. Over the last four decades, they have seeded an impressive 5,000 acres, aiming to enhance biodiversity both above and below the soil.

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

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. farms and ranches produced $543 billion in agricultural products, up from $389 billion in 2017. farms and operated 84% of land in farms. • In 2022, there were 1.2

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 52

Real Agriculture

MAY 9, 2024

Last month, the Thrall family announced it had reached an agreement to protect the over 54,000 acres of native grasslands in southern Alberta that make up the historic McIntyre Ranch through a conservation easement with the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Ducks Unlimited. Read More

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Acre Ranching Cattle Livestock 290

UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the acres he’s transitioned to regenerative agriculture, Mestas allows naturally occurring cover crops to emerge between the rows of the agave, and then grazes livestock- including cattle, horses, donkeys and sheep- to further advance soil health. You have to be calm because you can’t make good decisions when you’re scared.”

Acre 52

Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the acres he’s transitioned to regenerative agriculture, Mestas allows naturally occurring cover crops to emerge between the rows of the agave, and then grazes livestock- including cattle, horses, donkeys and sheep- to further advance soil health. You have to be calm because you can’t make good decisions when you’re scared.”

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

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

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 116

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

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For three generations, Fanny Brewer’s family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota’s Ziebach County. million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 129

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust As drought dries up the shallow sea, near a half-million farmable acres in the Imperial Valley, farmworkers living nearby are exposed to toxic dust and airborne pollution from algae blooms. Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?

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Farming Farming Food Ranching 91

Agwired

MARCH 29, 2024

million acres of corn in 2024, down 5% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). million acres in 2024, up 3% from last year. Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 90.0 Soybean growers intend to plant 86.5

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biotechnology Agriculture Agriculture Acre 59

Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Data from Global Forest Watch indicate that the municipality of San José del Fragua alone lost 1,433 acres of forest between 2020 and 2021. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Farming Farming Seeding Acre 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 79

Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Maintaining and building fences is a yearly job on every ranch, costing at least $20,000 per mile. The United States has lost more than 50 million acres of grasslands in the last 10 years, and groups such as The Nature Conservancy and their partners are trialing virtual fences as a tool for conservation and grazing operations.

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Pasture Technology Livestock Cattle 124

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 132

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

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. The principles of soil health bind all together.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 71

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

If successful, the experiment could provide a roadmap for hundreds of farming and ranching communities nationwide whose groundwater stores are dwindling at unprecedented rates. In southwestern Colorado’s high desert, producers already till fewer acres, tax themselves to fund fallowing programs, and plant less water-intensive crops.

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Water Rights Acre Farming Farming 104

Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

They completely destroyed the whole area,” he said as he showed photos of a machine grading the 12-acre property next to Conne’s house. One way agrovoltaics can work is to raise solar panels high enough for farming or ranching to take place beneath the solar installation.

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Farming Farming Distribution Construction 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 118

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

To Which We Belong follows nine farms, from Montana to Maasai Mara, ranging in size from 1 to 30,000 acres and in what they each produce – from grass-fed beef and cheese to kelp. Then there’s the James Ranch in Colorado, originally bought by Dave and Kay James, who dreamt of raising a large family in a rural setting.

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Food Farming Farming Ranching 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s late October and Jon Griggs, manager of Maggie Creek Ranch in Elko, Nevada, still has more than a thousand Angus-cross calves left to wean. 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.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 124

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative. Through this program, they work with cattle ranchers to steward ranchlands, which supports birds’ natural habitats. billion acres of land, and 620,000 miles of rivers.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

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. She leans hard into tahini, pairing it with tomatoes and dates; transforming it into a ranch dressing to coat a broccoli salad; or whipping it with sweet potato and harissa for a spicy dip.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 126