Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. Nantaise cow in the Loire Valley. Photography via Shutterstock. “We Photography via Shutterstock.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 81

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With bale grazing, bales are set in a grid pattern before winter, and cattle are given access to a few bales at a time. For the past six years, winter management meant feeding cattle in a sacrifice area. Because of this, he still needs to bring his tractor into the pasture weekly to lift and unwrap the bales.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 73

Caff

MAY 2, 2022

I work about one and half acres that I rent. Instead, I walked beans, fed cattle, ate fresh picked sweet corn and went fishing in the pond. Obviously, I will have to add a couple acres to make it all happen but that is what a vision is all about!” I never wanted to go. “Just do it! Start small and scale up.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JUNE 29, 2023

A dusty Nick Stanek stepped off his tractor after an evening of round baling hay. Members of a three-generation farm family, he and his brother also grow corn and soybeans across 400 acres. Conditions in La Farge, Wisconsin, are currently great for the crop, but not much else. But the weather isn’t cooperating like the siblings do.

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Crop Tractor Cattle Acre 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. in conjunction with sheep, which are lower-slung than cattle and therefore better able to graze in tandem with solar panels. Here’s how the U.S.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

“I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. Solar Grazing Site Specifications and Management The site is in a 15-acre array that produces 5 MW of DC and 3.375 MW of AC, enough to power approximately 1,100 homes.

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Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

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. Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene.

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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. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

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 143

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. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C.,

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 89

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126