UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. Is the farm/ranch stocking rate set at the correct level to allow forage to be stockpiled without over grazing other areas of the farm/ranch? Hay is a traditional way of feeding livestock at the cost of net profit.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” 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.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 89

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. But in 1981, a northern Wyoming ranch dog proudly presented his owners with his most recent treasure: a dead ferret. Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food.

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Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 89

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So, for those animals, the road is 100 feet wide, and yet, it’s denying them access to millions, potentially millions of acres of good habitat. MF: I want to talk a little bit about the intersection of roads and agriculture and ranching. But there’s also the linear infrastructure of ranching that’s all over the landscape.

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Ranching Ecology Plowing Construction 132

Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Texas leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, with 248,416 , and has the highest rate of uninsured residents, at about 18%.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

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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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 82