National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

Agriculture 104

Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 104

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die.

Farming 83

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 83

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

Agriculture 81

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 81

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98