ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By Eddy Labus , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist I am sure most of you have seen the pictures and heard about the damage Hurricane Helene caused in the Southern Appalachians. Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Farming Farming Acre Rural Development 89

ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. Behind every piece of clothing, there’s a story about soil health and sustainable practices that affect how our clothes are made and their impact on the environment. Let’s explore how wool and cotton fibers are produced and why it matters to all of us. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Textiles Marketing Supply Chain Ranching 75

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist When I teach about the soil food web, I tend to paint with broad brushstrokes. Pasture fertility, healthy livestock, reduced nutrient runoff, all thanks to dung beetles. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Pasture Rural Development Manure Food 75

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By Hakeem Holmes, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Lean is a business process improvement concept that focuses on the elimination of non-value-added activities from processes, which are defined as waste. The main antidotes to reducing wait times are proper planning and scheduling of activities. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

This waterer provided frost-free water for the cull ewes on pasture this past week with wind chill temperatures in the 30-below-and-worse range. We have a group of doelings in another pasture and we put a heated bucket there. It is easy to judge if you drill some 1-inch holes in the top of the waterer as shown. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

By Danielle Crocker, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Mowing lawns is a common activity in the United States due to factors like suburbanization, homeownership trends, and a cultural emphasis on well-maintained yards. However, managed pastures with legumes, high-quality hay, and minerals can help keep goats healthy.

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Livestock Rural Development Construction Production 74

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They leave our meat and poultry processing system and supply chain brittle and slow to move with changing conditions such as climate impacts, communicable diseases, or war-related barriers, all of which our agricultural markets have faced in recent years. NSAC was pleased to see rounds of awards from the MP programs. “ – U.S.

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Processing Poultry Farming Farming 110

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By Luz Ballesteros Gonzalez and Felicia Bell, NCAT Agriculture Specialists When you have common goals, things align much easier and faster. This is what has been happening in Mississippi through the MS Holistic Management International (HMI) Regenerative Agriculture Mentor Program (RAMP) organized by Felicia Bell, NCAT Agriculture Specialist.

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Livestock Rural Development Agriculture Agriculture 40

ATTRA

MAY 14, 2024

That course focuses on helping women farmers gain the knowledge and support and confidence to run their own farms, setting goals, managing soils and pastures and livestock, and working with processors and marketing the livestock products. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Livestock Marketing Rural Development Farming 45

ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Over 15 years ago, I moved from Vermont to Arkansas, and I’ve been here farming in the Ozarks ever since. The differences between the two places revealed themselves more and more the longer I lived here. Related ATTRA Resources: Episode 309. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data. But family farmers are also vulnerable to challenges including the climate crisis, lack of support and financing, and limited access to land resources and market opportunities, says Esther Penunia, the Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development.

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Family Farming Ranching Food Ruralism 124

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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