Real Agriculture

MAY 19, 2023

Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio! On today’s show, host Shaun Haney is joined by Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture, for the RealAg Issues Panel. They discuss many topics, including: Ontario’s Bill 97 carving up farm land; Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau planning a trip to India in.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Our research team are using GPS collars on cattle to compare heat stress risk and grazing behaviour between paddocks with minimal tree cover, and paddocks where over 30% of the forest was retained as shelterbelts. These win-wins look different depending on which beef producing region you are in.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., Farmland Reserve Inc. The church likely originally purchased land in Nebraska through its nonprofit, Farmland Reserve Inc., By that point, the church had already purchased more than 200,000 acres of Nebraska ag land under Farmland Reserve Inc.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Richard reports, stunningly, that he is sequestering 10 times more carbon than the farm is omitting, and this is despite the fact that he built his fertility with beef cattle. It is up to us as citizens to protest about the way in which chemical agriculture has become the norm on more than 90% of the farmland of the UK.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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American Farmland

AUGUST 5, 2024

Raising cattle can be an uncertain income stream, buffeted by swings in the market, uncertain weather patterns, and ever-rising input costs.

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Agwired

MARCH 15, 2024

Organic recycler Denali is taking action to get hay sent to a Texas A&M livestock supply point where it will be distributed to cattle producers in need. Organic material repurposed by Denali as fertilizer delivers beneficial nutrients to farmland and improves farmer outcomes.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. What do they think I’m going to do with the cattle while all this work is carried out? Put them in a drawer?” Catherine is tired and exasperated.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

Those realities, combined with a dose of pandemic-induced social distancing and a chance to buy an extended family member’s farm, led the couple to venture into the world of Black Angus cattle production in 2020. The challenge: Between the two of them, the couple had limited agricultural experience, and none in cattle.

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. The new law removed any motivation to conserve land.

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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. When farmland and pastures turn idle, the economics often make land use changes tempting, says Heaivilin. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine. In most instances, farmers will spray the plant with herbicide and kill it.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 14, 2024

American Farmland Trust (AFT) announced that it disbursed more than $700,000 to 139 farmers across the United States through this year’s Brighter Future Fund. These crucial funds will allow farmers to rebuild and replace vital infrastructure, equipment, cattle, and more that were destroyed in the early 2024 wildfires.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. Average farm size increased to 463 acres compared to 441 in 2017, but total farmland decreased by 2% to 880 million acres, a loss of about 20 million acres. With a loss of nearly 142,000 farms, the number of U.S.

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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. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Funding more and better conservation practices also helps grow farmers and protect farmland. New farmer Hannah Bernhardt says EQIP funding paid for fences and waterlines at her farm in Finlayson, Minnesota, which allowed her to grow her herd of cattle.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt. cattle industry will be effectively bankrupt. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S. Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MARCH 31, 2024

cattle herd – or U.S. Imagine how disappointed you’d eventually be if your entire investment thesis was buying agricultural assets (farmland or cattle) because they were at historically low levels.” For example, only considering the size of the U.S.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. in conjunction with sheep, which are lower-slung than cattle and therefore better able to graze in tandem with solar panels.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leasing Farmland as a Collective In Longmont, Colorado, Helen Skiba and Nelson Esseveld run Artemis Flower Farm , while Cody Jurbala and Melissa Ogilvie run Speedwell Farm & Gardens. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Benjamin Ruddell , director of the National Water-Economy Project , said that Colorado River water shortages left large areas of farmland in Arizona unsowed, a bellwether of things to come. “Up Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email.

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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. I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Nancy Utesch and her husband, Lynn, live on 150 acres of land in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, where they rotationally graze beef cattle. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers. The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Production loans are issued to cover the cost of land purchases; equipment purchases such as tractors; seeds, fertilizers and chemicals needed for growing crops; breeding livestock like cows or pigs that produce milk; feeder cattle sold at auction markets, and more. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In agricultural hubs such as the San Joaquin Valley, where there will likely be significant shifts in the way water and farmland are used over the next several decades, agrivoltaics may offer an alternative path to viability. Sheep navigate the arrays better than cattle and are less prone to cause damage than goats.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. There’s also the loss of farmland due to a confluence of factors. Some studies show California’s farmland acreage will be reduced by about 20 percent by 2040. Almonds are a shelf-stable source of protein, for one.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Conscious Pet No discussion of vanishing farmland or concerns about wasting human grade food on pets is complete without a mention of food waste—when 30 percent to 40 percent of the entire US food supply gets dumped in landfills. In recent years, the company, which now has a nationwide following, has landed on the Inc.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Across farmland in the lower parts of the province, producers dealt with the deaths of thousands of animals, including more than 630,000 chickens , while 2,500 acres of blueberries wilted. And it was sheep and cattle and horses, most of them.” The oppressive heat caused roads to buckle and more than 500 deaths across the region.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again. Croix county for 6 generations and counting.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Those systems still involve cattle being sent to large feedlots.

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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. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Repayment might be an issue, as well as farmers ability to grow certain crops or rebuild cattle herds due to the high costs of borrowing.” ” Dede Jones, Texas A&M University The good news is the value of farmland has also gone up by 42 percent, helping offset the farmers debt-to-asset ratio.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. It’s kinda cool to watch the cattle eat turnips because they’ll eat the leaf first, then the stem, then they’ll pull the turnip up and eat that, as well.

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