Acre Compost Pasture 
The Lunatic Farmer
AUGUST 23, 2023
This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least. I can think of other things more important than water, like controlling the grazing, putting on compost, but let’s take this sentence at face value and play along.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. 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. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.
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UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. That’s a big number!
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. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. A clover crop interseeded into pasture. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.
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. Total citrus sales were $146 million. in March 2022.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 8, 2024
We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 21, 2024
And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. Nor has eating plant-based meat made a significant impact on beef production, according to a 2023 report.
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