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. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century.

Livestock 81

Livestock Pasture Cattle Arable Land 81

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Instead, the easement allowed the subdistrict’s farmers to continue their operations much as they have in the past, said Frees, who runs 60 head of cattle and is president of one of the valley’s seven water subdistricts. “As “Without it, we might have had to curtail everyone’s water use by 10 percent.”

Water Rights 139

Water Rights Acre Farming Farming 139

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

The following is an extract from Marianne Landzettel’s new book, The Sustainable Meat Challenge: How to graze cattle, slaughter humanely and stay profitable. He has a herd of about 60 beef cattle, most were born on one of his pastures. The farmer members still pay a small annual fee, based on the number of cattle they keep.

Pasture 64

Pasture Straw Cattle Arable Land 64

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. cattle industry will be effectively bankrupt. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from cattle will drop by 60 percent by 2030, on course to nearly 80 percent by 2035.

Science 92

Science Production Food Cattle 92

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. cattle industry. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). xvii] Milazzo, F.

Food 64

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 64

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Instead of clearing expanses of arable land, she says, we can plant gardens that build on the existing natural elements of a place, forage for wood sorrel on the edges of garden beds, and gather purslane that’s poking through cracks in cement.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145