Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Colorado’s semi-arid climate can be unpredictable, presenting challenges for ranchers and livestock producers. Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. What is PRF Insurance? Contact us Today!

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

ATTRA

MAY 21, 2024

The Partnership will work with 30 partners and 200 collaborating farms to improve the productivity of forage-based farms in the region. The Partnership invites producers with grazing livestock to enroll in the program and implement specific grasslands management practices on their farms.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The FAO assessment adds that grassland soils have “suffered” from human activities such as intensive livestock grazing and agriculture. The assessment says that governments should work with the livestock industry to incentivize rotational, planned, or adaptive grazing methods. In terms of the assessment’s impact on U.S.

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Livestock Food Agriculture Agriculture 113

UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2024

Concentrations of minerals in cereal rye forage at several developmental stages when harvested at a 4-inch height. Nutrient removal is a function of not only nutrient concentration but also forage yield. are on a per ton of dry matter basis for the forage. Results from several locations in Iowa (Dahlke, 2019). Boot stage 3.8

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Manure Crop Forage Processing 116

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 137

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. million acres with cover crops (a 17% increase) in 2022 than in 2017 and a 50% increase in acres with cover crops from 2012. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 105

Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Once these fence posts are hammered into the ground, ranchers battle trees, wind and damage from livestock knocking them over. Virtual fencing supplies ranchers with a collar solar or battery charged and uses a web-based app to remotely monitor and control where livestock graze. In a better world, you move your animals every day.

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Pasture Technology Livestock Cattle 124

Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After implementing soil health management, 85 percent of corn farmers and 88 percent of soybean farmers saw increased net income by an average of $52 per acre and $45 per acre for each respective commodity. Healthy soil can also produce healthier livestock. “If The total nutrient value was calculated at $1.4MM (or $2K per acre).

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Fertilizer Yield Crop Yield Acre 111

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Proponents point out that livestock brought up on ranges filled with native, carbon-sequestering plants can prevent erosion, improve soil health and significantly reduce the total environmental footprint of a ranching operation. Carman saw how deep the benefits could go. But emissions may not tell the whole story.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 134

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. And he can point to some wins.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 105

ProAg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

billion in emergency relief payments to eligible farmers and livestock producers. Emergency Livestock Relief Program This week, FSA will issue more than $581 million in 2021 and 2022 drought and wildfire emergency relief to eligible ranchers. FSA is closing out the Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) for losses suffered in 2021.

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Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 59

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Becky as a grazier has honed her grazing management skills over the past 15 years by working with her father, attending conferences, being mentored by other farmers, and serving in a coordinator role of the farmer-to-farmer mentoring network with the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council.

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Cattle Forage Livestock Acre 52

ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A new free online tool, the StockSmart decision support tool , lets producers and land managers access remotely sensed information to calculate stocking rates for livestock on rangeland. Developed by researchers at Washington State University, the University of Arizona, and the U.S.

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Forage Livestock Pasture Acre 40

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 140

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze. The fire burned right around them,” says the 73-year old rancher and owner of Diamond B Ranch, noting the intact areas—some as big as a quarter acre. That’s the fight I’m in,” Balthazar adds.

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Plantation Pasture Ranching Acre 109

ATTRA

MARCH 7, 2024

Farm Service Agency programs for affected producers include the Livestock Indemnity Program; the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program; the Livestock Forage Disaster Program; and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.

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Livestock Forage Acre Crop 40

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 144

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

Intensity Intensity includes both stock density (pounds of animal per acre during an individual grazing event) and the degree of forage utilization. However, we would not want to repeat these disruptions in the same manner on the same acres on a regular basis. We want to mix things up.

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Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 65

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. Now, utilizing bale grazing, Conard explained how he and his wife opened access to seven new bales every 5 to 6 days once pastured forage was no longer available.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It reduces the need to farm and slaughter livestock. Why should that land not be in livestock production? In the words of Peter Byck, producer of the documentary Roots So Deep , on a 1,000-acre farm that amounts to 54 million gallons more water going into the soil. The standing forage biomass is often 300%+ higher.

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 77

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The 260-acre ranch butts up against the West Elk Mountains, four miles east of the West Elk Wilderness, almost smack-dab in the middle of where gray wolves could be released this winter. He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch. Every few years, he said, all 260 acres will be grazed. “I

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 88

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 98

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. Agriculture already takes up over half of U.S.

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 141

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Rick Hartlieb, of Castanea Farms in Pennsylvania, has used local and state grant resources to help him plant acres of chestnuts and to shift his farm toward silvopasture.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 117

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 14, 2023

million acres of almonds to pollinate, it takes a lot of bees to get those almonds ready to grow. These are livestock. Winter says drivers hauling bees have to be experienced with handling livestock, and bees aren’t any different. With roughly 1.5 After all of that is done, the bees are off duty and overwinter in Louisiana.

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Acre Livestock Forage Agriculture 94

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 140

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. Fat Cat Farm is a small-acreage, diversified vegetable farm in Mississippi that includes acres of forest, as well. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. Far from it.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers. For many livestock producers, the few grazing areas left that haven’t dried up because of lack of water have now been eaten by the grasshoppers,” says Comeau. They were everywhere—even roads and highways had to be closed. This year is almost as bad,” she says.

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Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Harvester 82

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Livestock Feed and Herd Summary A Feed and Herd Summary is a document that includes metrics like the total cost of feed and feed conversion ratio, among others. Takeaway As a rancher, there are plenty of livestock data to keep track of. Both would still count towards overall average value since they were both born alive.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. Caiti has also been forced to fallow some of her land.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 81

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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