Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. Trisha has traveled to Washington, D.C.,

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Farming Farming Ranching Pasture 118

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

corn product and has increased the price of corn by about 30% and other crops by about 20% annually (Lark and Stevens agreed with this. It is likely that the ethanol industry has supported an increase in corn-growing acres, estimating it to be about 1% of the corn acres in the U.S., about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014.

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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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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 117

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 105

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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Acre Pasture Crop Production 67

ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station with funding from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the StockSmart tool calculates stocking rates using remotely sensed forage production data for every quarter of an acre over the last 40 years. Related ATTRA publication: Pasture, Rangeland, and Adaptive Grazing

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Forage Livestock Pasture Acre 40

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

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 116

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Meet some Midwestern agrarians, some of whom come from conventional farming families, who are using their land to reestablish the connection between trees, animals, and food production. They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Eric Weninger and Bree Breckel of Embark Maple.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 104

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.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 69

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. Instead of measuring actual forage production, it uses a rainfall index to track precipitation variations. What is PRF Insurance?

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Livestock Forage Ranching Pasture 52

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. His family was hardly alone in doing so: Along with cattle, corn and soybeans make up the top three farm products in the U.S., But also because I’m worried that in our area it’s getting hotter and drier.”

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 89

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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Crop Farming Farming Acre 122

Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

Every morning, Amish farmer Amos Miller, who lives on 75 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA., The Jersey cows’ milk and milk product—all unpasteurized—are sold to a nationwide network of private customers. Sponaugle then clarified that his ruling didn’t prevent Miller from selling his products in other states.

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Production Food Farming Farming 92

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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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

Furthermore, and this is a controversial statement if ever there was one, it is my contention that beef, lamb or dairy products from grass-fed animals managed in a holistic grazing system are amongst the most sustainable foods we can eat. Let me conclude by declaring an interest.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 111

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. Screenshot of Tesco Woodside Farms product. Noah & Mary.”

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Pasture Food Production Farming 101

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

.” Scientists, farmers, and advocates agree that one of the biggest barriers to rolling out agrivoltaics in California—the national leader in solar energy , agricultural production , and even on-farm solar —is a need for more state-specific research. Internationally, many countries in Europe and Asia are ahead of the U.S.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 131

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. As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 122

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Originally, the subsidies were only given for production support, but they are gradually moving over to these environmental elements. In fact, EU farmers receive $1,000 per acre per year just for owning farmland. Many years ago I had a vexing fox in our pastured chickens that I couldn't catch or shoot. Goodness knows, I tried.

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Harvester Harvesting Harvest Farmland 64

National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 22, 2024

They’re also leasing 100 additional acres of land for organic hay production which Tessa says is to “bolster food security for our herd so that we can bolster food security for our community. Farms and raising 15 calves, the most they’ve ever raised in a season.

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Pasture Farming Farming Acre 98

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2023, farm real estate value rose $280 per acre to an average of $4,080. Cropland Prices Cropland values increased $410 per acre to an average of $5,460. Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. That is a 7.4 That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2022

Crops like corn and soybeans account for the lion’s share of chemical use; very little is used on pastures and virtually none is used on forests. Because our land is primarily in an area of pastures and forests, the overall chemical use per acre is extremely low. We call it organic by neglect. Dodged that bullet.

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Pasture Livestock Crop Acre 52

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Soil microbiology that supports productive soil function thrives best in an aerobic environment. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. 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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

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 120

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. A clover crop interseeded into pasture. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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Pasture Crop Farming Farming 117

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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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 75

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Also known as “cultivated meat,” these products are made by taking stem cells from animals and growing them petri-dish style around a scaffolding in nutrient-rich broth. These include: It is a “greener” alternative to traditional meat production. Why should that land not be in livestock production?

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 76

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. Today, the Boors’ farm “looks completely different,” according to Mikala.

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Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Climate Change Resource Center recognizes agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into agricultural practices, as a promising option to weave productivity and profitability into sustainable and resilient farming systems. Demonstrating what works For many farmers, seeing is believing.

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Farming Farming Crop Production 85

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

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too. who will direct the new project. “As

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 95

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. The entire landscape seemed devoted to turning the richness of the soil into fantastically delicious foods.

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Food Pasture Agriculture Agriculture 134

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 113

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

You can understand why Arla and others are setting their own standards which cast their particular production systems in a better light. I suspect they are doing this because the cooperative is producer-owned and most of the producers on their board own these large, industrialised herds.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Supply Chain 128

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. In 1970, he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52