Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A version of this article was first published at NDSU.com. It has been edited for clarity and length. As drought conditions continue across Western Canada, there are many parts of the U.S. that are in the same situation. Cattle ranchers are especially seeing the impacts of drought, as cows are very quickly moving home and. Read More

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ATTRA

MARCH 10, 2025

A feature on National Public Radio highlighted the benefits of silvopasture , or intentional integration of trees, grass, and livestock. In addition, the trees contribute to improved soil health and reduced moisture loss, so pastures are more productive and can support more animals.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 6, 2024

In this episode of the Farming Forward video series, Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching, explains the principle that stands for: G – Graze period R – Rest period A. But we’re not talking the actual grass, we’re talking about the GRASS principles of advanced grazing. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems. Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil. Country Perspectives on Hay-Making Landscapes as Part of the European Agricultural Heritage. India, Brazil, China, Pakistan and Sudan, apparently.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Western Canadian farmers and ranchers have endured several years of drought over the last five seasons. While AgriRecovery and other national drought programming has been triggered in all the Prairie Provinces, there are other provincial insurance products available.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Per Product Management Bulletin PM-23-047 , The Rainfall Index (RI) Common Policy, and the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) Crop Provisions for 2024 and succeeding crop year for the August 31, 2023, contract change date and for the 2025 crop year for insurance plans with a contract change date prior to August 31, 2023 have been revise.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. In fact, now I am a regenerative farmer.”

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Several factors, including positive price signals and a return of pasture productivity, will be crucial in stabilizing the cow herd. Several factors, including positive price signals and a return of pasture productivity, will be crucial in stabilizing the cow herd. Brenna Grant, executive director of. Read More

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Improved pastures are pastures that have undergone breeding, selection, and improvement for better yield and livestock performance. They differ from native

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Common forage crops used in livestock feeding are specific plant species cultivated for their high nutritional value and suitability for consumption by

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These agricultural practices have developed in tandem with government and market incentivisation that promote increasingly processed diets high in sugar, fat and processed meat. It also helps regulate erosion, influences climate through greenhouse gas exchange and sustains human societies by enabling food and livestock production.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Farmers Weekly Suggested cuts to livestock numbers in Northern Ireland will significantly impact pasture-based livestock production without reducing global emissions because more meat and dairy would be imported from overseas, says the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU).

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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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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. In this blog, I’ll briefly cover a few ways we can keep our livestock safe in the heat. They need wallows and shade since they cannot sweat.

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Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Forages can be conserved to feed livestock during periods of shortage caused by limited pasture growth or inadequate pasture conditions, or fed as a supplement. Conserved forages can take the form of hay, haylage, and silage. Although several methods have been proven as efficient ways to store and preserve forages.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Grasslands – and the grazing livestock they support – have been fundamentally important to Scotland’s people for millennia. Some of this is easily quantified: grazing livestock are, for example, an important source of employment in rural areas, providing vital economic opportunities in some of the country’s most fragile communities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In early 2024, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Conducted every five years, the Census of Agriculture is sent to every known agricultural producer in the country to ask important questions about their farms and how they manage them. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. 6 Key Livestock Wellness Management Practices Measure & monitor the overall wellness of your herd/flock/etc. safe and well.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Introduction Someone wise once said, Were not managing problems in agriculture anymore. Adaptively grazed pasture remediates pH because it allows living plants the opportunity to feed the soil for an extended period of time.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Selecting the right type of hay for your livestock is a critical decision that can significantly impact their health, growth, and productivity. We've added information about different types of hay, the nutrients in hay, and the needs of different types of livestock. Without this livestock cannot function.

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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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Agric4profits

MAY 11, 2024

Forages can be conserved to feed livestock during periods of shortage caused by limited pasture growth or inadequate pasture conditions, or fed as a supplement.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Mike Morris, NCAT Agriculture Specialist “When I was in college, I was taught that you fed hay and grain, and the pasture was just something you put the animals out on to look pretty, or just to get a little bit of supplement. Department of Agriculture. I had to really change the way that I think to make that switch.

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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. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. According to U.S.

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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. By planting 600 chestnut trees, he is bracing for a future of extreme heat by adapting an agriculture practice known as silvopasture. It also provides much-needed natural shade for livestock.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Linda Coffey, Margo Hale, and Dave Scott, NCAT Livestock Specialists With many parts of the country currently experiencing bitter temperatures, we’re re-posting this blog from March 2021 to offer potential livestock watering strategies for your farm during severe cold snaps. Livestock waterer made from a 55-gallon barrel.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Animal grazing is a fundamental aspect of livestock management that significantly impacts animal health, pasture quality, and environmental sustainability.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The Missouri Climate Resilient Crop and Livestock (CRCL) Project helps farmers implement climate-smart agricultural practices through direct payments and education. Participants will also submit a soil sample from each enrolled pasture. Applications are open until January 31, 2025.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A grazing management system involves pasture manipulation under grazing conditions with the sole aim of feeding livestock and environmental control.

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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. Silvopasture, or mixed trees and livestock, is one form of agroforestry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture. Drought and torrential rain will frequently reduce productivity in all regions.

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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. The first question to ask is: do you really need to take on the work of establishing cover crops in pastures?

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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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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently published its first ever Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands. Grasslands cover nearly 70 percent of global agricultural area, according to a paper published in Agronomy. In terms of the assessment’s impact on U.S.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This drives up the price of farmland and makes it far more difficult for a young person to acquire agriculture property. The big one that struck me this trip was prohibiting livestock in forests. The Swiss said the forests are completely off limits to any livestock. Goodness knows, I tried.

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