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. ” While revitalizing the community, Jersey Scoops adds a high-value outlet for a perishable product, strengthening the industry overall.

Pasture 142

Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 142

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.

Plantation 125

Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 125

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.

Pasture 142

Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 142

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. A productivity value is established for grid areas.

Forage 52

Forage Pasture Cattle Crop 52

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.

Acre 52

Acre Production Crop Greenhouse 52

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.

Harvester 80

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Farmland 80

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. The PRF program utilizes a rainfall index to determine precipitation for coverage purposes and does not measure production or loss of products themselves.

Forage 98

Forage Pasture Acre Production 98

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

With a wealth of information at their fingertips, farmers can make decisions based on solid evidence, enhancing both their productivity and profitability. The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Technology Yield 97

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.

Pasture 58

Pasture Forage Cattle Livestock 58

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sugary foods fuel microbial activity and result in more acid production, which is why candy does what it does to teeth. In the soil, moisture is often the limiting factor to microbial activity, so rain leads to a flurry of microbial feeding, which leads to acid production. range, meaning a slightly acidic environment.

Fertilizer 84

Fertilizer Distribution Processing Pasture 84

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.”

Pasture 130

Pasture Food Production Farming 130

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.

Acre 127

Acre Farming Farming Pasture 127

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.

Cattle 144

Cattle Food Acre Ranching 144

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.

Poultry 128

Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 15, 2025

cotton production relying on export trade. farm production expenditures saw a moderate decline of 4.1 The American Farmland Trust (AFT) expects 300 million acres of U.S. Will that last in 2025? In 2024, farmland values increased by five percent for total farm real estate, with an increase of 4.7 percent for cropland and 5.2

Farmland 59

Farmland Marketing Real Estate Finance 59

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.

Food 111

Food Pasture Farming Farming 111

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.

Textiles 90

Textiles Seeding Processing Straw 90

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. The PRF program utilizes a rainfall index to determine precipitation for coverage purposes and does not measure production or loss of products themselves.

Forage 52

Forage Pasture Acre Production 52

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

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.

Acre 67

Acre Pasture Crop Production 67

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. Avocados or Grains? Total citrus sales were $146 million.

Grain 138

Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

million acres of U.S. million acres). In comparison, China owns 347,000 acres. Farm Sizes Vs. Farm Production Although nearly 90 percent of farms are considered “small” (an operation with gross cash farm income under $250,000), they only produce 18 percent of America’s agricultural products. agricultural land.

Farmland 59

Farmland Marketing Pasture Acre 59

Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) hailed the House passage of two significant land management bills that are strongly supported by Americas livestock producers: the ACRES Act and the Fix Our Forests Act.

Supply Chain 45

Supply Chain Livestock Farming Farming 45

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.

Ranching 111

Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

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.

Ranching 128

Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

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.

Farmland 128

Farmland Food Farming Farming 128

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.

Agriculture 95

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 95

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?

Food 96

Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

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.

Farming 109

Farming Farming Crop Production 109

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.

Pasture 110

Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 110

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.

Ranching 90

Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 90

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. We called b t,” Dostie remembers.

Farming 134

Farming Farming Fertilizer Forage 134

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

Supply Chain 145

Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers who have no livestock in their system have a limited number of tools…With the addition of livestock, there is the potential for perennial pastures, perennial hay, annual forages, and grazing crop residues, reducing tillage and increasing the return of carbon to the soil,” Paine tells Food Tank.

Livestock 120

Livestock Food Forage Agriculture 120

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.

Pasture 98

Pasture Farming Farming Acre 98

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

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

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.

Agriculture 143

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 143