Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

Samples were collected from irrigation waters, soil, sediments, air/dust, animal fecal material, wildlife scat, and other sources across approximately a 54 mile (7,000 acres) area of the southwest growing region.” [ It’s about time the FDA did this ]. birds and other wildlife do not appear to be significant sources of STEC or E.

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

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Livestock Acre Cattle Ranching 145

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Farmers Weekly Agroforestry has gone from a novel idea to a core part of a resilient farming model at Yeo Valley in Somerset, with 405ha (1,000 acres) of woodland grazing targeted by 2028.

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Acre Cattle Farming Farming 245

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 7, 2023

Farmers Weekly Innovative grazing practices have enabled a Cumbrian estate to capitalise on more than 1,000ha (2,471 acres) of saltmarsh, giving a beef finishing system an extensive, low-input store period.

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Cattle Acre Livestock 246

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The yield monitor counted 730t freshweight off 12.14ha (30 acres), which is about 60t/ha. Farmers Weekly The maize is in the clamps. The best bits yielded more than 100t/ha at 34-36% dry matter. After 19 weeks in the ground, it is a massive yield for only 100kg/ha of purchased fertiliser.

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Forage Maize Manure Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

JULY 29, 2023

About 80ha (200 acres) of third cut was taken on 5 July, down slightly on area after giving 16ha (40 acres) of silage ground to the grazing cows. Farmers Weekly The changeable weather seems to be providing a good year for producing forage. Drier summers suit us here in south Cumbria.

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Yield Forage Acre Livestock 187

AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. According to U.S.

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Cattle Pasture Livestock Acre 115

West Texas Livestock

MAY 28, 2024

million acres of hay harvested in Texas in 2023 underscore the pivotal role of hay production in sustaining livestock operations. The staggering 4.6

Forage 84

Forage Livestock Cattle Acre 84

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Worsham farms, growers and producers of over 1,500 acres of sweet corn, 1,200 acres of peanuts, and 2,500 acres of pecans—with trees over 100 years old—allowed us to document their journey and share the story of what it takes to be a resilient farmer in an industry where you risk it all to work the land you love.

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Acre Ranching Livestock Farming 105

AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The $13 million facility is a joint.

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biotechnology Construction Acre Livestock 122

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 Forage Agriculture 120

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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Pasture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 105

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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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in the Dirt with Pregnant Pigs”. Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms. Pete Larson on his farm.

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Farming Farming Acre Marketing 122

Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

There are not a lot of hog farmers…But there are kids that want to be handling livestock.” Often families will purchase livestock for these types of programs using interest-free youth loans. To me, Niman Ranch is a way they can afford five acres of property and they could actually raise livestock, they could have a small business.”

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Ruralism Farming Farming Ranching 116

ATTRA

JULY 16, 2024

The Missouri Climate-Resilient Crop and Livestock (CRCL) Project led by the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at the University of Missouri is offering incentive payment initiatives for climate-smart practices aimed at creating more resilient crop and livestock systems. The incentive payments range from $15 to $40 per acre.

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Livestock Crop Acre Agriculture 40

ProAg

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The post EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR CROP AND/OR LIVESTOCK DAMAGED BY HURRICANE MILTON appeared first on ProAg. As a result, RMA has authorized several emergency procedures for AIPs to use on a case-by-case basis to assist impacted policyholders and increase the efficiency of AIP services and determinations via Manger’s Bulletin – MGR-24-007.

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Livestock Crop Acre Harvest 52

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Colorado’s semi-arid climate can be unpredictable, presenting challenges for ranchers and livestock producers. PRF insurance is available for haying and grazing, and you can insure part or all your acres. The post PRF Insurance: Safeguarding Livestock and Land in Colorado appeared first on Farm Credit of Southern Colorado.

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Livestock Forage Ranching Pasture 52

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Cattle Food Acre Livestock 141

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 16, 2023

The trial took place in north Norfolk on 16ha (40 acres) across two sites run by LSB Pigs. Farmers Weekly Grass mixes can establish well and withstand grazing by outdoor pigs, helping protect soils and watercourses, a three-year trial has shown.

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Acre Livestock 146

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply.

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Farmland Acre Real Estate Ranching 121

Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage.

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Forage Livestock Farmland Distribution 85

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Over two centuries, hundreds of thousands of acres were cleared to establish rice plantations, shaping the Southern economy and landscape.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 126

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 127

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. reduce tillage), increase plant diversity, keep roots in the soil as long as possible, and integrate livestock. However, the farmers insisted on a lower cap so that more money could be spread around on more acres. “I

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The operation benefits everyone involved: Sheep farmer Frankie Iturriria gets paid for his time, the collaborating rangeland researchers are breaking ground , and the landowner BHE Renewables can maintain the property with sheep, which have less impact and are more cost-effective than mowers or other livestock. In November, U.C.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

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 Acre Ranching 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 Acre Crop Yield 111

Organic Farming Research

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Leonard has managed sustainable and organic farms in northern California for over 30 years, including a 365 acre college farm with annual and perennial crops, a winery, livestock and a mixed species

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Ranching Acre Livestock Crop 52

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

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. One acre can bank about a foot of water,” he says. “If We sell them, we trade them, we give them away.”

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Acre Plantation Cultivation Crop 125

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Over-winter feed costs are often the largest expense for livestock owners, and in many parts of the country where hay is more expensive, it can rob the profit out of cow/calf pair production. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. What class of livestock are they?

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

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 109

Caff

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We’re starting a pilot vineyard that is going to focus on stacking all those principles on 20 acres of a regenerative vineyard, with the goal to have that grow. The post BIFS Field Day: Cover Cropping and Livestock Grazing for Regenerative Viticulture appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 52

Daily Yonder

MARCH 12, 2024

According to the attorney general’s complaint , workers at Evergreen Acres Dairy lived in “squalid” conditions, including in converted barns and a garage, that did “not meet Minnesota’s standards for habitability.” Courtney Blanchard, an attorney for Evergreen Acres, declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 126

Organic Farming Research

APRIL 8, 2024

Tim and Becky Colby own Colby Farms, a 14 acre farm in Papillion, Nebraska, where they produce vegetables, fruits and some livestock products for their community. They are participating in OFRF's Farmer Led Trials (FLT) Program to research the best cover crop options for reducing soil compaction on their farm.

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Soil Compaction Farming Farming Acre 52