National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

OREI also prioritizes research that takes place on working farms, like this research project that investigated the pest management services a robust bird population can provide orchards. Scientists and farmers in Mississippi have identified sheep resistant to gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) , a significant hurdle in organic sheep production.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. 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.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.”

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

It’a not just because it’s cheaper and not just because Capay Hills Orchard , his farm just north of Sacramento, is in an area of California that is increasingly drought-prone. The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. My orchard has a lot of trees,” says Paddock. “I’m

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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. Despite competing for land and water, the region’s orchards and milk farms have developed an unlikely partnership, says Sumner.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. 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.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised.

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