Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. Steward works to keep track of everything by sectioning off her acres with electric fencing and moving her cattle in time with seasonal changes. So, she’s learned how to build her land back up.

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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 Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.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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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. Stockman Grass Farmer is the world's leading publication dedicated to pastured livestock production and it has been my compass of direction and fount of inspiration for 40 years.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows. million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. But the trauma of that fire stays with her, even now. “If

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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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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

The farms ranged in size from less than an acre to over 50 acres. youth and adult volunteers Location: Fresno, California Acres in cultivation: Less than one acre Marketing: farmer’s markets, farm stand and CSA Crops: mixed vegetables “I think the food safety piece is just as important as all the other stuff that we do.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 28, 2019. “But

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