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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees. At night, the goats sleep in a barn built in the mid-1800s from large blocks of local stone and weathered wood.

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MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

The Lunatic Farmer

Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. A strong sense of ecological production practices exists and fortunately this country does not have to hit as severe an “undo” button as countries like the U.S. And goop to put in confinement hog facilities to make the lagoon manure less toxic.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

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. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

As a result of the ROC standards, livestock now graze the cover crops in the almond orchards, fertilizing the soil with their manure and providing space for beneficial insects. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business. There are currently 8.3

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Bold Climate & Agriculture Bill Introduced in Congress

Caff

This Earth Day, CAFF is proud to endorse this bill on behalf of our members as part of the solution to the climate crisis, recognizing the invaluable role that ecologically-focused farmers and ranchers can play. It’s a hopeful sign that our advocacy is moving from the state level to the national stage.”

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BARN SHEEP

The Lunatic Farmer

I’ve visited 10 farms, most of them several hundred sheep on more than 1,000 acres. One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. Nobody puts down carbon for bedding, so all the sheep are on solid manure packs that stink and are filthy. I should be home Monday afternoon. Here are the protocols. Lambs do not nurse their mothers.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my scale, and we’re not tiny,” he said.

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