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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a fourth-generation farmer, Trisha says that her farm today looks a lot different from her childhood. This was soon after the Zachmans founded Feathered Acres Learning Farm & Inn with substantial startup expenses.

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Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?

Civil Eats

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. A spokeswoman said the Park Service will ultimately consider the effect of fence removal on the ranches and dairies in the new plan—but it has yet to provide that information.

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Finding Balance as a Sixth-Generation Pig Farmer

Food Tank

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are. Now, he enjoys a healthy balance of time between farming and his young family. “It’s

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Bringing Youth Back to the Farm in Rural America

Food Tank

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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Young Farmers Bring Small-scale, Humane Hog Farming Back to Iowa

Food Tank

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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Meet the 4th Generation Rancher Driving a Regenerative Cattle Collective Forward

Modern Farmer

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” It seem[ed] so simple, 20 years ago,” she says. “‘We

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Part 2 Erosion: How Much is it Costing YOU?

UnderstandingAg

Now let’s take a look at some of the economic costs and benefits of addressing erosion on farms and ranches. An example from our family farm is shown below. To determine the cost of erosion, I used the NRCS tolerable soil loss or “T” value for our farm of 5 tons per acre.

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