AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. According to U.S.

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ATTRA

MARCH 10, 2025

Advocates say wider adoption of silvopasture could help reduce deforestation in the Amazon, because it reduces the amount of land needed for cattle production. In a silvopasture system, trees can provide both dairy and beef cattle with feed and shade. In addition, the researchers found that cattle on silvopasture produced less methane.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays. Understanding Data-Driven Farming Farming today is more than just relying on instinct or what was done in the past. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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AgriLife Today

JULY 17, 2023

Texas A&M AgriLife initiates peer group learning for regenerative ranch management When Joe VanZandt walks across his ranchland in Wheeler County, he observes the soil, the plant growth, water availability and the cattle. Read More → The post Walking in another’s rotational grazing pastures appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Environmental benefits Regenerative grazing—or closely managing where and for how long animals forage—is a farming practice that can improve soil health and plant diversity. Each new boundary drawn by a rancher moves livestock onto a fresh paddock, allowing grazed pastures time to recover as livestock feed in a new location. “We

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Once they would have been joined by many other families whose produce fed the local population and whose farms were within Bristol’s city boundary. A hundred years ago, according to Catherine, there were 28 farms in South Bristol alone, several of them tenanted by her ancestors.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 21, 2024

Continuing education units available to participants The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program on April 5. Read More → The post Virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program set April 5 appeared first on AgriLife Today. The online program will run from 8:30 a.m.-3

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A study conducted by researchers and policy experts at George Washington University found 20% of cattle marketed as “raised without antibiotics” to have been treated with antibiotics. This raises immediate questions about the antibiotic claim. You would think that fixing this situation requires mandatory regulation, not voluntary.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here, our Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour – who comes from a Perthshire hill-farm – writes about the often overlooked environmental and social benefits that well-managed Scottish grasslands can deliver. In recent years, Scotland’s grasslands have developed a bit of an image problem. more nuanced positions.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether you're a seasoned farmer or rancher , an aspiring farmer looking to venture intofarming or ranching, or a farm business owner who wants to have a strong plan as they transition into another farm business, its helpful to know how to write and use a business plan. It also shows commitment, professionalism, and organization.

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Food Politics

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past eight years, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) has produced industry-backed lesson plans, learning resources, in-person events, and webinars as part of a program to boost the cattle industry’s reputation. What is the AFBFA? What does this program teach?

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Digital agriculture, forage systems, beef cattle genetics featured topics The Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Beeville will host a field day Nov. 2 featuring a broad overview of new technology used in beef cattle production systems. The post AgriLife Research field day to cover new tech in cattle systems Nov.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move. Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles. This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. Diaz is not alone in making this shift, but he may be ahead of the game. in [one] hospital stay.”

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

There's no doubt that modern technology has given us the tools to make our farming operations more efficient and productive. However, it can be hard to choose which practices to implement on your farm. Luckily, we’ve done the research and broken down the top tips for increasing efficiency and productivity on your farm.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Dee River Ranchs investment in grain storage, soil health prompts a shift from pasture to cropland.

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Food Politics

JULY 30, 2024

A Salmonella Outbreak Highlights Its Risks: At least 171 people have been sickened in an outbreak linked to Raw Farm milk. The concern about raw milk has been heightened this year by the rapid spread of bird flu among dairy cattle in the United States. The Raw Farm producer is Mark McAfee. To start: Raw Milk Is Booming.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As part of a new, two-part series, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets with upland farmers in northeast England who explain why the shift to the new farm payments scheme – the Sustainable Farming Incentive – poses an existential threat for many upland farmers. Roughly 140 acres are suitable for making silage.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 21, 2023

University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist Joe Horner says plants, animals and business are three areas where small changes can make a farm less vulnerable to risk. Have a separate bull pasture. Always invest in good cattle-handling facilities. Seek counsel from an experienced and credible farm tax preparer.

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 16, 2024

Along with a new season comes a further need for supplementation for your pasture cattle. Though the weather may not feel like it, temps are still in the 100s with no end in sight here; the fall season is almost upon us. The soon-to-be-changing weather reminds us of the changing season.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S.

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Rather than a typical farm, the mountaintop looks unkempt, uninhabited, overgrown. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. Farm Hounds jerky.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

As news of weed killer resistant plants hits the headlines, Patrick Holden reflects on discussions at the latest Oxford Real Farming Conference, highlighting why the plough may not be the worst option when it comes to nature-friendly cultivation. In parallel, Richard Gantlett, who is somewhat of a data geek (I mean that as a compliment!),

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. In this series of articles, I will walk through how we are implementing the Six Principles of Soil Health on our beef and hay farm and how those principles provide the pathway for our regenerative farming journey.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”?

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

Smart farming technology lets you do more with less. Is a lack of accessible labor limiting your farm’s productivity or changing the strategy behind your operation? In this article, we’ll outline four key benefits of smart farm technology and share how some farmers are already using it to enhance their operation.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here is a link to a video that talks about assessing pasture soil health using these tools. First, locate an area of the pasture that seems representative of the whole pasture. An 18-inch-long slice of soil positioned horizontally on a pasture to make it easier to look at soil structure and rooting depth.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. Wendy Johnson’s ‘natural savannah’ Wendy Johnson and her husband, Johnny Rafkin, own Jóia Food & Fiber Farm, in Charles City, Iowa. Johnson laughs.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Though San Diego is home to more small farms than any county in the U.S.,

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