Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Red Angus cows help students learn about agroecology at Walla Walla Community College.

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. And while the numbers of cattle and sheep in aggregate have increased by less than 50 per cent in the past sixty years, pig numbers have increased by a factor of 2.3 over that period).[2]

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Manufacturing Production Pasture Food 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Bill and Cath graze 90 Red Poll cattle (and their crosses) and 40 EasyCare sheep across 40 sites in north Lancashire and south Cumbria, totalling 730 ha. We’ve gradually built up a herd that is adapted to its local environment and able to thrive on a diet of unimproved pasture of wild herbs and grasses.

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Farming Farming Food Cattle 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die. Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 95

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. And like my monthly purchase, a chicken from such a system won’t be cheap.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52