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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

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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2025 Adaptive Grazing Tips, Tricks, & Hacks

UnderstandingAg

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. This allows you to place bales when pasture conditions are dry and will easily hold up to the tractor traffic to place bales.

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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land. 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.

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How Using Endangered Animals Might Actually Save Them

Modern Farmer

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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Understanding the farmer protests 

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

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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The Anatomy of a Pasture Walk

Wisconsin Farmers Union

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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