Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. We brought in a herd of 10 Nantaise cows and a bull for their compost,” he explains.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 79

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Compost and organic amendments : Regenerative farmers prioritize the use of organic matter, such as compost, manure, and other natural amendments, to enhance soil fertility and microbial activity. Integrating livestock : Some regenerative systems incorporate livestock, such as cattle or sheep, into crop rotations.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 104

ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Goats are browsers—they’ll eat grass and weeds like cattle and sheep if they have to, but their preference is to eat brush. Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. One question that came up was about feeding them. Mulberry ( Morus sp.)

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Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. Happy Goat also helps recycle food waste from local school cafeterias, using it to create compost for small school gardens and its farm. Sharp is careful not to let the goats overgraze, which can compact soil.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.”

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 125

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Now, the Berry Center in Kentucky is trying to take key parts of the former tobacco program – fair prices, controlled production, cooperation – and apply it to other realms, like beef cattle. My parents both worked full-time off the farm.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Farm Forward recently published a major investigative report detailing systematic animal suffering and consumer fraud at Alexandre Family Farm—a leading large-scale organic dairy company with “well over 9,000 head of cattle,” according to co-owner Blake Alexandre—whose products are covered in certification labels.

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Farming Farming Production Animal Agriculture 127

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 116

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

The group assessed a variety of materials, starting with the non-degradable mulches, in terms of effectiveness – this included cardboard, green waste, straw and hay, wood and woodchip, grass, green waste, under-sown mulches, compost and biodegradable film – as alternatives to non-degradable mulches.

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Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

The collective houses their two farms, and they sublease portions of the property to other businesses, currently a vermicompost venture (creating high-quality compost with worm castings) and a tool library for local farmers. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We fed our garden compost and didn’t spray chemicals on it. While neighbors spent half of each Friday at the sale barn commiserating over their cattle, he pursued direct marketing. He invented a portable electric fencing system, mobile shade, mobile animal structures while the neighbors built stationary everything.

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Cultivation Farming Farming Compost 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle. K” Kolodge, who manages soils and compost for the dairy, said it would be tough to ensure predictable yield on rainwater alone. That’s already happening in San Diego, with successful results. Craig “Dr.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

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Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer 130

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. There are sheep grazing between the trees, cover crops of grasses and legumes, spot irrigation and increased composting. Almonds are a shelf-stable source of protein, for one. And guess what it replaces?

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Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming 94

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

in conjunction with sheep, which are lower-slung than cattle and therefore better able to graze in tandem with solar panels. Solar panels might sit too low to allow a farmer like Cobb’s tall native plants to grow, or to let his cattle meander beneath them, or to let agricultural machinery through, which is where the expense comes in.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

From mycorrhizal networks to worm counts, compost to phytochemicals, and ruminant health to ultra-processed foods, What Your Food Ate explains the ripple effects emanating from our lack of regard for soil health. With a strong scientific bent, Montgomery and Biklé dissect each of their focus topics – soil, plants, animals and people.

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

30:53 – Why raise piedmontese cattle? 15:25 – Peter and Craig talk about the regenerative practices they use on the farm. 22:48 – Have Peter and Craig seen benefits from implementing regenerative agriculture? 25:06 – What is forage-finished beef? 36:35 – Peter and Craig talk about testing.

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Food Fertilizer Forage Ruralism 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong. Hartman maximizes many practices from the past while implementing today’s tech “on a human scale” to reap the greatest reward.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. Nothing more dramatically illustrates this principle than a compost pile, teeming with bugs and worms, all eating and in turn being eaten. Isn’t that beautiful?

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. A crowd funder has been set up with donations providing each family with vegetable seedlings, local seeds, soil, compost, planters and training. Donations will also be used to purchase solar panels which could power community wells.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Keystone Land and Livestock, which manages grass-fed certified organic cattle across over 4,500 acres in California’s Sutter Buttes Mountains, received a grant through Wolfes Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment. To reach small vegetable, livestock, and larger row-crop farms across the state, they hired five people.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 145