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How to Implement a Grass-Fed Program on Your Farm

Farmbrite

Getting started Implementing a Grass-Fed Beef Program on Your Farm If you're a beef producer, you may be considering shifting your operation to grass-fed beef production. But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Assess your livestock's grazing potential.

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SEAWEED AND METHANE

The Lunatic Farmer

No scientist has ever taken a methane sample from the cows on our farm. Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer? Or factory farms? Or cattle feedlots? This is why data sourcing matters. Is it possible? Does it matter? Like glyphosate?

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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Alone on the Range

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. Nor did they have funds to make their own aerial surveys.

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Solos en la pradera

Food Environment and Reporting Network

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. Nor did they have funds to make their own aerial surveys.

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