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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Could Dry-Farming Wheat in San Diego Seed a Local Grain Economy?

Civil Eats

He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I I seek out purity of ingredients, those that speak to my heart, and that is why for the last 10 years I’ve been collecting heirloom wheat seeds—to one day plant and watch them grow, to learn from them, and pass on their radiant life force through a loaf of bread, from the heart,” Velazquez said.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. While state production still remains in the hundreds of acres, according to Edward Johnston, several producers sell kava online. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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In Fire-Stricken Maui, Sustainable Land Management Is Key

Modern Farmer

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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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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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Bringing Back the (Flax) Fields of Gold

Modern Farmer

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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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

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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