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. Whatever happens, like the wildflower seeds that stick to my trousers, the land grabs hold of me, and it wont let go.

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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. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” I was so excited. Things started working.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. That’s a big number!

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. ” Former professional football player turned farmer Jason Brown also tried basalt powder last spring on First Fruits Farm, his 1,000-acre farmstead in Louisburg, North Carolina. Prevost tested olivine on his land last spring.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Wells could try to seed his crops early , so they can be harvested before the nymphs mature into eating machines. Farmers need warm weather to seed, and the warmer it gets, the faster the nymphs grow. million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.” But that’s tricky.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. The incentives were helpful.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

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. As part of that study, he says, “We are trying to produce and grow plants and animals that we need, and want to harvest them as close by as we can.”

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. Solar Grazing Site Specifications and Management The site is in a 15-acre array that produces 5 MW of DC and 3.375 MW of AC, enough to power approximately 1,100 homes.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Now, as I design landscapes for my residential clients close to home—and work with farmers and ranchers as a consultant with Understanding Ag—I see better how we can’t really parse out the home landscape “flower beds” from the vegetable garden, or either of those from the 1,000-acre fields of wheat or corn in the Midwest and Great Plains.

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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.

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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. Obviously the disturbance, and then those deep tap rooted weeds, awakened the latent seed bank of timothy (some seeds no doubt had lain dormant for decades) and the conditions were perfect for that wonderful grass to express itself.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM BUILDER Written by: Symone Strong April 14, 2023 Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture. Garrett: Indigo will create a complete community by promoting sustainable living in many forms, including a working farm and pasture.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

According to official figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, the region lost 94,847 acres of forest in 2021 — almost 15,000 acres more than in 2020, the largest increase in the country. If we have seeds, we achieve food sovereignty for the families,” said Diego Fabián Gómez.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

Even putting aside organics, a farmer with a thousand acres running a grass-fed regenerative beef operation on paper might appear less efficient next to a thousand acre farm growing corn. Now I’m off to plan out our cover cropping strategy for 2020, and pick out the last of our seeds.

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Cultivation Farming Farming Crop 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I kept thinking ‘If only I had more acres. Instead of growing the size of her herd and buying more acres to farm, Witscher downsized to just eight cows that she rotationally grazes on different grasses on her farm of only 28 acres. If only I had more cows,’ ” Witscher recalls. “I at her farm south of Osseo.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

These include a variety of actions and strategies, including investing in farmer-centered research, incentivizing on-farm conservation programs, increasing funds for local agricultural markets and agricultural easements, expanding pasture-based livestock, and building out on-farm renewable energy production. in Iowa, concurred. “I

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. Becky raises South Poll cattle as a cow-calf operation, breeds replacement heifers, and sells seed stock on 160-acres of land. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

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

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

Todays Farmer Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Whether it is the diversity in conservation practices applied, seed mixes for cover crops and forage plantings or pioneering resource management, Harry strives to promote soil health, manage diverse native warm- and cool-season forages, and improve wildlife habitat on his farm.” In addition, the Copes grow micro-greens for supplemental feed.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. What does that mean for pasture-raised poultry, which spend most of their lives outdoors and therefore are at greater risk of contact with contagious wild birds? As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock. In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

One villager, Awdah Hathaleen, said on social media , “The shepherds now have been completely cut off from their pastures and fields. It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

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. Last April, Montana took a notable step in promoting good soil practices by designating an official Healthy Soils Week.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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