UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable. Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax.

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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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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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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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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

Our mission was to earn a living as full-time regenerative farmers on just 10 acres in South West Wales. We experimented with a combination of ruminants and agroforestry, perennial crops and poultry, as well as some annual crops. In hindsight, what we did was crazy, but we have no regrets.

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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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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Becky raises South Poll cattle as a cow-calf operation, breeds replacement heifers, and sells seed stock on 160-acres of land. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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