Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 105

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Twice a month, Catherine Withers heads to market two miles away in Bedminster, to sell her wares, much as her family have done for generations. Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

Not knowing what else to do in 2015, we harvested our home farm as dry hay to market as big square bales of horse hay. Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance.

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Pasture Acre Farming Farming 96

Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. that uphold high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices in exchange for a guaranteed market for their product, in addition to a strong support system. Many family farmers have had to leave the hog industry or find other jobs.

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Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Throughout the summer in the Golden, CO area, you might see a big box truck full of local fresh vegetables hosting a pay-what-you can farmer’s market. Affectionately called Chuck, GoFarm’s mobile market truck travels to low-income neighborhoods, schools, retirement homes, mobile home communities and more.

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Food Marketing Farming Farming 116

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

April Prusia’s 78-acre heritage hog operation in the Driftless region of Wisconsin has benefited from two forms of financial support from the U.S. With this money, she bought an additional 28 acres on which to grow hay for bedding and feed for the pigs. “It Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Farming 143

Farming Farming Pasture Acre 143

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. He and his wife Nancy own a 150-acre grass-fed beef farm and use a rotational grazing method. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.

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Cattle Food Acre Livestock 130

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. Total citrus sales were $146 million.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

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. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. Despite experiencing a spring with no rain, he has persisted and is increasingly finding markets for his nuts.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 117

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. Payne said it’s likely he’ll make more money on 30 acres of chestnut trees than he would on 300 acres of row crops like corn. The question isn’t really, ‘Is silvopasture scalable?’” Orefice said.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 95

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. Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. Things started working.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 125

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Farmland Food Farming Farming 127

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. Farmers can grow flax.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 75

Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

CLIMATE SMART FARM OF THE YEAR: Sarah Silva, Green Star Farm This women-led 85-acre pasture-based farm in Sonoma County, CA is proof that, when tended thoughtfully, livestock can coexist with a biologically-rich ecosystem. In just a few years, Chris has shown that even a new farm can have a lasting impact.

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Farming Farming Marketing Food 98

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Tessema is currently investigating the potential of carbon markets in Africa and sees the assessment as a “timely resource” for furthering investment in the sector and the region. Many acres of native or unimproved grasslands in the American West are overgrazed and/or managed poorly, leading to soil carbon loss.

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Livestock Food Agriculture Agriculture 120

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.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 139

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. Customers who buy their eggs at the farmer’s market in downtown Hamilton or who swing through their farm store can pick up a carton with a very simple design.

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Pasture Food Production Farming 108

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

trillion market in 2023, representing 83.6 As the market grows and values rise, it’s important for landowners to understand the power in their equity and how to effectively mitigate risk while seizing opportunity. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. percent of total farm sector assets.

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

The pasture was divided with permanent division fences to create multiple paddocks, and across a broad valley on the far hillside, I noted that one of the small permanent paddocks really stood out across the green pasture. However, we would not want to repeat these disruptions in the same manner on the same acres on a regular basis.

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Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 65

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We are stuck between a rock and two hard places – our customers, who want ever cheaper food, our shareholders who demand better returns on their investments, and our competitors, who will gain market share unless we drop our prices.”

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Farming Farming Ruralism Supply Chain 128

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” Rosmann’s 700-acre organic operation is an anomaly in the region. It won’t be easy.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. Ethanol represents about ⅓ of the U.S.

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Acre Production Crop Greenhouse 52

ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. acres of corn and 10 acres of hay to feed them. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests.

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Farming Farming Acre Rural Development 97

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they say, ‘You’re just cashing in on the new b t market.’” ” 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. Or they’re tricked into signing multi-year contracts.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 139

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. My parents divorced when I was six years old, and I spent a lot of that time at my cousins’ farm where we ran wild through pasture and forest, daring each other to touch hotwire and finding portals in the branches of yew trees.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 95

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the release, the WFO claimed cultivated livestock products “are supported by marketing campaigns that enhance the myth of greater sustainability compared to agriculture” and asserted that “there is no reliable evidence to compare cell-based food to farmer-produced one.” Yet one sticking point remains: the ick factor. Some already are.

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Cultivation Food Production Poultry 96

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 lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. Then I direct-market and sell the meat.”

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 93

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wisconsin producers have always been innovative and open to exploring ways to diversify their agriculture systems, provide their products to new markets and be good stewards of the land,” says Josh Odekirk, acting state conservationist for the Wisconsin NRCS. has always been ecologically minded.

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Farming Farming Crop Production 92

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Work is underway now to develop acceptable lab grown meats for the consumer market. Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? 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 78

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The most carefully managed pastures can improve the quality of forage so substantially that they reduce the methane produced by grazing cattle, and carbon sequestration in pastures can more than offset the remaining greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

By Julian Emerson Communications Specialist, Wisconsin Farmers Union A September 18th Makers Market at Inga Witscher's Osseo, WI dairy farm will spotlight farmers' creative approaches to continuing a rural way of life. I kept thinking ‘If only I had more acres. If only I had more cows,’ ” Witscher recalls. “I

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Marketing Farming Farming Food 52

Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Farming Farming Tractor Ranching 52

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The marketing of nuts did not do as well as in other years. Lack of competitive pricing in global markets is keeping the U.S. Rice Average rice yield is forecast up 100 pounds, at 7,699 pounds per acre. California Proposition 12 has created significant challenges and market uncertainty for pig farmers across the country.

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Hans noted that a high irrigation pressure system is required to effectively move the water throughout the 11 acre farm, the length of which is situated along the hillside, with a moderate slope. They also run separate tests which allow them to see the water’s sodium levels. Hans sharing the history of their vineyard with guests.

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Orchard Farming Farming Construction 52