National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 101

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This is correct, but what they don’t factor in is the inter-relationship between the emissions from those same grazing animals and the pastures they eat, which, if correctly managed, can be a major source of carbon sequestration. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides. Photo submitted.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. It displays the SweetRoot Farm logo—a beet sticking out of a row of dirt—and the text “Pastured eggs. Available for farm pickup at the farmhouse. Noah & Mary.”

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Pasture Food Production Farming 126

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” I was so excited. Things started working.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. That’s a big number!

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Agribusiness Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Our home is at about 2,000 feet of elevation and we have about 40 acres of pasture, etc. The field was only about 75 acres, however, it was at least a mile long. Last year the yield on the field was over 100 bushels per acre and this field had been recropped for over 20 years. Another 15 miles is the Bluewood Ski Resort.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. When the sheep go to pasture, someone is with them at all times—armed. As soon as the lambs can quit drinking milk replacer, they go on grain to grow as fast as possible. Here are the protocols.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. ” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Prevost tested olivine on his land last spring.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 89

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2023, farm real estate value rose $280 per acre to an average of $4,080. Cropland Prices Cropland values increased $410 per acre to an average of $5,460. Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. That is a 7.4 That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. acres of land.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? If we are producing grass-fed beef, then we do not need grains or other feedstuffs? Pasture and range conditions are significantly better. Are they using commodity beef nutritional data to make their decisions?

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 93

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

But for now, to offset flood risk from rising water levels, the State Water Resources Control Board has agreed to send more than 600,000 acre-feet of water (pretty much what Los Angeles consumes in a year) to areas where it can soak into the ground and replenish the aquifer beneath the San Joaquin Valley.

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 96

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bauman’s raises its chickens on pasture, with non-GMO grains, and its beef, pork and lamb on grass. Longer term, that’s how you can make billions of pounds at the lowest possible cost in a way that just doesn’t require so many resources—so many hundreds of millions of acres of land and trillions of gallons of water.

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Cultivation Food Production Poultry 98

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land. In 2019, they ran a series of crop trials on 20 acre paddocks to experiment with different crop mixes. Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre. However, medium and short-grain rice will likely remain the same at $24.80 This short supply will likely lead to higher prices—cotton is forecast to increase by three cents to 79 cents per pound.

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I kept thinking ‘If only I had more acres. Instead of growing the size of her herd and buying more acres to farm, Witscher downsized to just eight cows that she rotationally grazes on different grasses on her farm of only 28 acres. If only I had more cows,’ ” Witscher recalls. “I

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Marketing Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I’ve been a rural resident and a regenerative farmer for nearly two decades, currently operating an 81-acre farm in a remote corner of northeast Washington State. The question then becomes: How can farmers balance the need for wildlife to live on the landscape with the necessity of producing economically valuable crops?

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 139

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. Dave Ramsey would be proud.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

I even played soccer next to a Cargill grain elevator.” It is designed specifically to incentivize overproduction of grain. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. But I really think a bigger conversation needs to be had over putting the farm bill out to pasture and stripping USDA for parts.

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Food Farming Farming Marketing 145

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. By 2017, they accounted for only 1.6

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Over the past year, farmer Zach Wolf traveled around New Yorks Hudson Valley visiting farms that range in size from 20 to 400 acres. Some of the farmers decided to plant more cover crops or adopt prescribed grazing plans for healthier pastures.

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