National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. Meanwhile, there are fewer but larger pasture and grazing operations, reflecting broader national trends. A positive finding is that there were an additional 2.6

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 105

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. Photography via author.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 70

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Permanent pastures are very biodiverse and a habitat for many different species In July, I was in Ridsdale, a village about 20km north of the market town of Hexham in Northumberland and visited four tenant farmers. At present he farms 485 acres, of which he owns 160. The farm has 500 acres, 75 of which are suitable for making silage.

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 69

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

With roughly 230 acres, the farm is relatively small, says Simkin, but “with pigs you can still work at scale, have a viable business and provide excellent animal welfare”. The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. What he would like to do is expand the beef herd.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

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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Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 115