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Texas A&M begins construction on Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center

AgriLife Today

Read More → The post Texas A&M begins construction on Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center first appeared on AgriLife Today. The post Texas A&M begins construction on Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center appeared first on AgriLife Today. The $13 million facility is a joint.

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The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie With Beavers

Modern Farmer

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. A beaver is released at Maggie Creek Ranch. Bob Boucher with a beaver.

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The Bourbon Industry Relies on White Oaks, Which Are in Decline. Now, They’re All In on Saving Them

Modern Farmer

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch.

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How Our Network of Roadways Has Altered the Natural World

Modern Farmer

So, for those animals, the road is 100 feet wide, and yet, it’s denying them access to millions, potentially millions of acres of good habitat. MF: I want to talk a little bit about the intersection of roads and agriculture and ranching. But there’s also the linear infrastructure of ranching that’s all over the landscape.

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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

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. He also had to construct pathways to move the goats back to the barn for milking. “He He was having to put out posts, roll out four wires.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

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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Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment

Civil Eats

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.