Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

No scientist has ever taken a methane sample from the cows on our farm. Would the data points derived from our pastured cows be different than a cow locked in a Fresno feedlot eating GMO corn and soybeans? Or factory farms? Or cattle feedlots? This is why data sourcing matters. Is it possible? Does it matter?

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack helped unveil his agency’s Census of Agriculture , a huge quinquennial report that covers 6 million data points and gives the current state-of-the-state of American farms and farmers. In 2017, the year the previous report covered, the country had 2,042,220 farms. In 2022, it had 1,900,487.

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