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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives.

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Cattle Run Farm LLC: A Soil for Water Case Study Sarah Morton and Ralph Morton Greene County, Virginia Cattle Run Farm LLC is a third-generation, family-operated, and veteran-owned farm located in Greene County and the central Piedmont region of Virginia.

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