Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Here are some weeds spreading across Missouri crop and pasture acres that you need to know about.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 7, 2025

They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. But these differences mean very little.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least. Except I’m sitting here at the desk while we’re dumping about 2 inches of rain a day on 4 acres a day with K-line irrigation pods from New Zealand. Unlike most farmers, I don’t keep up with government freebies.

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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. Meanwhile, there are fewer but larger pasture and grazing operations, reflecting broader national trends. A positive finding is that there were an additional 2.6

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. 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 According to U.S.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

White Bison Farm is located on 78 acres just outside of Laona, in the heart of the Chequamegon National Forest. Situated in the Wisconsin northwoods, Dave and Jodi Cronauer raise Idaho Pasture Pigs, American Bison, and Gypsy Vanner Horses on their farm and they manage the Idaho Pasture Pig Registry. Our meat is nutrient-dense.

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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. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Regenerative Grazing Program offers producers $50 per acre to implement managed grazing with regenerative outcomes: enhanced soil health, improved ecosystem biodiversity, and increased carbon sequestration. Participants will also submit a soil sample from each enrolled pasture.

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ProAg

MARCH 14, 2025

Compared to other federally subsidized crop insurance programs, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is still a relatively new offering. PRF is a coverage option for pasture, rangeland and forage crops, but it certainly isnt the only coverage type available for forages. That can leave farmers and ranchers with questions.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) championed the program amid the decline of the sugarcane industry, spurring about 200 acres of kava cultivation by backyard growers and commercial farms, according to Johnston. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures.

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Ohio State University

MARCH 18, 2024

One number that is concerning to agricultural stakeholders in Ohio is the loss of 931,089 acres in land in farms in Ohio in the last twenty years. According to NLCD, 355,085 acres of agricultural land in Ohio was lost between 2001 and 2021. The new 2022 Census of Agriculture data shows the number of farms in Ohio declined by 2.3%

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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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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. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive. Davis Med Center.

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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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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. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. However, the farmers insisted on a lower cap so that more money could be spread around on more acres. “I

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It is crucial that you understand how to estimate forage DM availability per acre so you can build appropriately sized paddocks. It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. So, 500 lbs.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

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. 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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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore farms 800 acres, half of them are his, the other 400 acres are rented from two different landlords. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage. On his silage acres, he is testing herbal leys which do not need to be fertilised. The pastures are a curlew nesting area and protected.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. This program helps growers cover their increased costs for feed, destocking, depopulating or other actions which can be incurred during dry periods.

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Forage Pasture Acre Production 98

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The increased profit of corn has meant more corn is grown which has resulted in a 5% increase in erosion and nutrient leaking into public waters as acres are converted from perennial management or kept in row crops. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Catherine’s grandparents became the tenants in 1967 and they later managed to buy the house and outbuildings and 28 of the 61 acres that made up the farm.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years. Kari currently manages the farm’s 20 acre hay field for rare grassland birds, including meadowlarks and bobolinks. When they purchased the farm, the front 40 acres were planted in corn. The field was very skewed towards men.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On the other hand, conventional management of cropland and pastureland has acidified many millions of acres unnaturally quickly in the past century or so, and this is the real issue at hand. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature.

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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).

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Farming Farming Pasture Acre 143

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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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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Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 2, 2024

million acres, down from its 2007 peak of 36.7 million acres in 15 years, a 44% decline. million acres, an 11.8% Each dot denotes a 1,000-acre change. The General CRP enrollment, the original program, accounted for just 37% of total program acres, or 8.4 million acres, at the end of 2023. Change in U.S.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He will soon begin a five-year, 10-acre agrivoltaics research project in collaboration with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which is currently installing a new 344-megawatt, 1,700-acre solar farm in Placer County. For a small farm—say 10, 20, 30 acres—if you convert your whole farm to solar, you’re quitting farming.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. The subdivision in Sugarland’s song is called “Shady Acres.” Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. This program helps growers cover their increased costs for feed, destocking, depopulating or other actions which can be incurred during dry periods.

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Forage Pasture Acre Production 52

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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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

It was so refreshing to hear the experiences of two farmers, Richard Gantlett of Yatesbury House Farm, a 1500+ acre beef and arable holding in Wiltshire and Iain Tolhurst (a.k.a. The equivalent impact in the pastures of the west of the UK is when you see a field that that suddenly goes yellow. That is also Roundup.

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