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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Again, these results were achieved through managed grazing of cattle without the purchase and application of any fertilizer or pH amending products. They carefully selected cover crop species that were tolerant to high pH soils.

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The Best Types of Hay to Choose for Your Livestock

Farmbrite

Ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats have certain protein needs for growth, reproduction, and milk production. Cattle Alfalfa Hay: High in protein and calcium, excellent for dairy cows and young, growing cattle. It is known to be a top choice to grow in grazing areas, for hay, silage, and green manure or cover crops.

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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cash crops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. Integrating livestock : Some regenerative systems incorporate livestock, such as cattle or sheep, into crop rotations.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Research shows that allowing cover crops to grow to significant heights can dramatically reduce pollution.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Palestine in the spotlight: The devastation of farming in Gaza and the West Bank

Sustainable Food Trust

Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, pomegranates, citrus, watermelons, potatoes, barley, wheat and many other fruits and vegetables. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised.

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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. Photo by John West. Scott plants most of his acreage in sweet potatoes now. He wants them to see the beauty in all that.

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