The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Kit Pharo, founder of Pharo Cattle Company , is America’s largest grass-based seedstock producer. As a renowned environmentalist, his cattle farm coupled with ornithology give him unique authenticity in the ecology-farming debate. You’ll never think about soil the same way after listening to him.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie.

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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. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements. What do you do first, second, and third?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Would the data points derived from our pastured cows be different than a cow locked in a Fresno feedlot eating GMO corn and soybeans? Whatever your position on climate movement, this is yet another confirmation that nature provides us with all the tools necessary to live abundantly without sacrificing ecology. Or cattle feedlots?

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. When the sheep go to pasture, someone is with them at all times—armed. This land has seen more than 2,000 years as wave after wave of foreign occupation plundered the ecology. Saturday night I did my last of three 3-hour workshops, just outside of Hebron, and am now heading back home.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

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. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. I drove 10 hours round-trip for a three-hour conversation because he is a Western Slope cattle rancher who supports wolf reintroduction. “I He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The couple have established a thriving low-input vegetable-growing business, supported by a small number of cattle and pigs that fertilise the land and provide the family with home-reared meat. One of these, a Longhorn Limousin cross, who would later come to be known as Bullock 374, was purchased by Robinson.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

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. They are committed to farming with nature, not against it, and restoring the natural grassland ecology. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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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. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example. While those bovines have been helping to restore the soil on their temporary pasture, the 18 raised beds that were planted last year and ⅛-acre demonstration field have all been prepared for the students who will be starting the program in September.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.” But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

But as we understand ecological systems better, we have come to realise that, while they can be very resilient, at some level of degradation they reach tipping points at which they flip into new states far less conducive to human life. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. cattle industry. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). xvii] Milazzo, F.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. Sarah and Ralph raise cattle, chickens, produce, blackberries, hogs, cows, and more as they continue to look to add value and diversify their operation.

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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. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. But they have to be big.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Goldthwaite The coeditors of Good Eats , both English professors and authors, have gathered a selection of creative nonfiction essays that requires “ecological thinking and a close attention to relationships, the environment, and diversity.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft. Our Polyface eggs averaged 1,038.

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