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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands

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. It’s a benefit I see clearly at home, with half of our family farm designated as an SSSI because of the mix of species-rich upland habitats that cover our hill ground.

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Livestock Pasture Cattle Arable Land

On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture

A Farmer’s Lifelong Love of Conservation

Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture

Generating Resiliency on the Ranch in the Face of Drought—WR Grazing—Irricana, Alberta

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre

Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example.

Food

Food Farming Farming Agroecology

BIOS Field Day at Locke Ranch

Caff

MAY 31, 2023

Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Locke Ranch on May 23rd. We kicked off the event with some background on the history of the Locke Ranch, which used to be a cattle ranch before it was a walnut orchard.

Ranching

Ranching Orchard Crop Ecology

Animal Ag News 8/13

Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification is an easy and effective way to pursue continued education in the cattle business. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) announced that nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. The deadline for nominations is Oct.

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Poultry Animal Agriculture Livestock Ecology

Colombian Farmers Turn Deforested Land into Sustainable Amazonian Farms

Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá.

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Farming Farming Seeding Family Farming

Farming With Nature — Redtail Farms, Castor, Alberta

RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Shortly after they moved back to the farm, Griebel’s father was diagnosed with cancer. We decided to call the farm ‘Redtail Farms’ as an ode to my father and his love for birds and ecology — and the way he farmed as closely with nature as he could,” says Griebel. A few years later, he passed away. “We

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Farming Farming Food Pasture

Evolving Sustainable Practices on a Fifth Generation Ranch — Valley View Ranch & Flying Heart Meats, Strathmore, Alberta

RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

We have a long, deep rooted connection with agriculture on both sides of the family farm,” explains Rod, whose own grandfather emigrated to southern Alberta from Holland in the 1920s. Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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Ranching Cattle Pasture Family Farming

Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? But they have to be big.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food

Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs.

Cattle

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming

Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Edition] By Christopher Hart Hedgelands is a delightful paean to a staple of British life and a critical part of the nation’s rural ecology: the hedge.

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Generating Resiliency on the Ranch in the Face of Drought—WR Grazing—Irricana, Alberta

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Colombian Farmers Turn Deforested Land into Sustainable Amazonian Farms

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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

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