Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up. She witnessed how difficult it was for them to work the ranch alone. The market for grass-fed beef continues to grow.

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

But when she was setting up The Breakfast Club, Beermann knew that the participants could lose money selling their hogs in the conventional hog market, and the families would not be able to make up the difference. She since partnered with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. As part of a $20 million project led by the Kentucky-based nonprofit Accelerating Appalachia , Carbon Harvest will receive roughly $200,000 over two years to conduct research on the potential for a regional offset market.

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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. system will likely have a resounding impact on the larger beef market in the state. That was never the focus of hospitals,” he adds.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Increased plant diversity builds a more robust soil microbial community, and the increase in brix content helps us improve weight gain on marketable animals and help cows carry better body condition. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. Grazing through snow.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

Well also highlight success stories across the food system, including at places like Sprouts Market, Whole Foods Market, and Natures Fynd.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

Their main marketing channels include a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and wholesale sales. Brisa Ranch went through their first 3rd Party Audit in 2020 because they participated in the USDA’s Farm to Food Box Program (a COVID-19 response program) and needed the certification to sell to the program.

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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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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

In 2019, they connected with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States. Niman Ranch offers a guaranteed market for its farmers’ and ranchers’ products in exchange for a high standard of practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. “We want to reinvigorate the community and revive Loleta’s dairy legacy.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. We bought the ranch by forming a land cooperative with three other families and collaborating on different uses of the land,” he said.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For three generations, Fanny Brewer’s family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota’s Ziebach County. million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre Simultaneously, the U.S.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White Oak Initiative , a group of researchers, government agencies and industry insiders dedicated to conservation, estimates that there are more than 100 million acres of white oak across the US, and roughly 75 percent of that is mature. The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Market Trends : Analyzing general market data helps farmers select crops that will yield the best pricing, making their planting more strategic and profitable. Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

As Mark and Tammy Copenhaver looked to the future, they saw nearly 3,000 acres and a family legacy on the vast Montana horizon in both literal and figurative ways. Everything that someone would need to know for a healthy farm or ranch business.” Each week is dedicated to a different farm-business-health topic,” Buckner said.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

acre farm in Escondido, near Camp Pendleton, in between tours. After ending his service in 2006, Archipley and his wife established Archi’s Acres , an organic hydroponic farm that supplies basil and other specialty crops to local restaurants and stores. Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse.

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Farming Farming Acre Greenhouse 120

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. 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. We keep all our own replacement heifers out of the stocker group,have fenced in another 100 acres and no longer hay our farm.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Alfalfa hay, the nutrient-rich backbone of the dairy, beef and horse industries in the West, produces more protein per acre than any other field crop. Al Noorda of Cedar Fort, Utah started using fodder for his grass-fed beef cattle and horses in 2014, following years of drought at his mixed-use ranch. billion to stop growing hay.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Agritourism is any venture on a farm or ranch that’s not directly related to raising and harvesting produce or livestock commercially. Generally, it complements the farm or ranch’s usual undertakings. The extra income can also help offset the unpredictability that often comes with commodity markets. What is agritourism?

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

AgriLife Extension agronomist, Amarillo, said she expects to see above average acres planted in the northern High Plains region as a. Texas Crop and Weather Report – Oct. 24, 2023 Timely rainfall in some areas has been highly beneficial for the fall wheat crop, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 24, 2024

Whether our crops come to harvest or our livestock make it to market is directly tied to the cycles of nature that we try our best to work within. tons of American agricultural soil per acre, costing farmers and ranchers US$44 billion annually and taxpayers nearly US$100 billion. As farmers, we are concerned. Each year, we lose 4.6

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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. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over the next five years, the program hopes to sign up 100 agricultural operations and impact two million acres of land. At least 40 percent of all program benefits will go to small and underserved farmers, and a special initiative is encouraging Black farmers in southern states to grow climate-smart cotton.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The resulting corn, soy, sugar beats and wheat supply insetting markets where corporate entities aim to reduce their greenhouse gas footprint. A project let by TH Cattle Company is quantifying the soil and biomass impacts of climate-smart ranching practices and rewarding livestock producers through premiums for added-value beef.

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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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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

I just returned from one of my favorite events, the Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Food Tank is honored to co-host an Educational Summit. In exchange, the farmers receive a guaranteed market for their products and an invaluable support system. According to the U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Critics of this approach will likely argue that it would require too much labor and take too many acres to grow cover crop seed. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops. These are features, not bugs.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2025

milk composition is poised to continue as genetic gains and market incentives will drive butterfat and protein production higher for the foreseeable future. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has set an ambitious target of 385 million acres managed under written grazing management plans by 2050.

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