Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What’s in a Pasture Walk? There’s a lot to be gained aside from a free meal by attending a local event and rubbing shoulders with other farmers and agricultural professionals. However, getting to a field day or pasture walk can be tough with so many competing priorities in life. They’re incredibly valuable.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Digital agriculture, forage systems, beef cattle genetics featured topics The Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Beeville will host a field day Nov. 2 featuring a broad overview of new technology used in beef cattle production systems. The post AgriLife Research field day to cover new tech in cattle systems Nov.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Look at the OS map for the area surrounding our farm in Highland Perthshire, and it is littered with Gaelic placenames related to the keeping of cattle and goats. Sadly, decades of agricultural intensification mean that the biodiversity benefits of well-managed grazing have, in all too many instances, been lost.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A study conducted by researchers and policy experts at George Washington University found 20% of cattle marketed as “raised without antibiotics” to have been treated with antibiotics. This raises immediate questions about the antibiotic claim. You would think that fixing this situation requires mandatory regulation, not voluntary.

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Food Politics

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past eight years, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) has produced industry-backed lesson plans, learning resources, in-person events, and webinars as part of a program to boost the cattle industry’s reputation. What is the AFBFA? What does this program teach?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Santana Diaz, Executive Chef, U.C. Davis Med Center. Cumulatively, the U.C.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

But of all of the regenerative farming benefits experienced since he began making the transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture seven years ago, theres one benefit thats especially meaningful to the 42-year-old Bergler. Now, Im always home in my warm house sitting at the table for dinner every evening, he says.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

By Lee Rinehart , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Imagine you’re walking out of the barn on a cool spring day. The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. Swallows dive overhead feasting on the flies hovering over the backs of the cattle. Sorghum-sudan pasture.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 21, 2023

University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist Joe Horner says plants, animals and business are three areas where small changes can make a farm less vulnerable to risk. Have a separate bull pasture. Always invest in good cattle-handling facilities. These 10 tips can tighten up your operation: 1.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. Fats These provide extra energy, especially for pigs and cattle. Here are some basic feed ratios for beef cattle.

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ATTRA

JUNE 11, 2024

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist As the summer heat ramps up around the country, it’s a good time to make sure we livestock producers are protecting our animals from heat stress. Here in Arkansas where I live and raise cattle, goats, laying hens, and a few ducks, the summer temperatures can be punishing.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The term data-driven decisions is becoming increasingly common in agriculture, but how committed are farmers to using data in their everyday practices? Are they truly allowing data to influence their operations, or is it just a catchphrase thrown around by people who aren't in the agricultural industry?

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. Let’s examine how mud affects cattle and horses, as they often create muddy conditions. Mud in the winter will result in soil compaction later.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was very impressed by what I saw and the superior cattle due to the adaptive genetics in the region. Here is the kicker: Adaptability directly translates to fertility, which are very important traits required in any profitable cattle operation. Producers and cattle are totally dependent on these products.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Justin Morris Has your pasture been plagued by poor plant growth? Does water pond on the surface of your pasture either during or right after a rain or irrigation event? Or does water run off your pasture to the point that it leaves behind ugly scars of erosion or floods out other areas that are lower in the landscape?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

“We started with that largely because we want to get out of commodity agriculture,” Payne said. Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Above those temperatures, heat stress causes cattle to produce less milk and decreases their fertility.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here is a link to a video that talks about assessing pasture soil health using these tools. First, locate an area of the pasture that seems representative of the whole pasture. An 18-inch-long slice of soil positioned horizontally on a pasture to make it easier to look at soil structure and rooting depth.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. This week’s post adds stories created and gathered by National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) members around the country.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? Farms that receive this certification raise their animals in pasture or on range and allow the animals to behave and move in a way that supports their well-being. American Humane Certified: This certification is granted by American Humane to practitioners of animal agriculture. How about “free range”?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Both of these practices have been somewhat demonised by the regenerative agriculture community, who assert that soil cultivation in general, and ploughing in particular, is bad for soil health and especially for soil carbon. I think it could be because they have no practical experience of agriculture. That is also Roundup.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

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 are often fed a corn or soy diet instead of grass, which can lead to illness. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

farm income is on the decline, partly due to an anticipated drop in total cash receipts for key agricultural commodities. In this article, we dive deeper into the forecasted decline in agricultural commodity cash receipts and the factors involved so you can be more informed when it comes to your operation’s financial future.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

The following narrative describes our context, explains how we began and how we are advancing in regenerative agriculture. Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Skoglund harvested nearly a bison a week out in his pastures last year to meet consumer demand. Photo credit: Anthony Pavkovich) Despite the state’s $4 billion-plus agricultural economy, only 3 percent of the food Montanans eat is produced there, down from 70 percent in the 1950s, according to a 2022 report from Highland Economics.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She and Rafkin had a goal of adding diversity and value to her family’s farm through organic agriculture, but they found few organic farmers in the area at the time and none that were implementing agroforestry. The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. They were a rough crew of sheep!”

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

These metrics can differ depending on the size and type of your operation, but here are some key metrics every rancher should know: Cattle Gains Cattle gains is a measurement of the amount of weight gain (or loss) in cattle over time. Cattle Production Costs Production costs are the expenses associated with raising beef cattle.

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ATTRA

JULY 1, 2024

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced an investment of $70 million through the the Sustainable Agricultural Systems program area of NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. An Iowa State University project will address the sustainability of dairy goat production.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this episode of Voices from the Field , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nina Prater and her husband, Jeremy Prater – a cattle and meat goat farmer – explore the science and history of potassium. They then share different ways to manage soils sustainably and require less off-farm potassium fertilizer.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. Being in Switzerland was a reminder that agriculture need not be the problem.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

This annual award honors farmers who excel in managing their farms while actively engaging with their local communities and taking on agricultural leadership roles. The award, sponsored by Vita Plus Corporation, was presented during DBAs Dairy Strong conference at the KI Convention Center. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats have certain protein needs for growth, reproduction, and milk production. Cattle Alfalfa Hay: High in protein and calcium, excellent for dairy cows and young, growing cattle. Suitable For : Horses, cattle, sheep, and goats. Nutrient Content : High in protein and calcium.

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Agwired

AUGUST 22, 2024

“Halter technology is a powerful system that helps users precisely manage pasture to lift the performance of the animals grazing it,” says Craig Piggott, Halter Founder and CEO. cattle ranchers.” By enabling more precise pasture management, virtual fencing can play a significant role in regenerative land management.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Southeastern Minnesota’s Olmsted County is a microcosm of agriculture’s dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

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