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.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle. Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. acres in a former horse pasture. That’s already happening in San Diego, with successful results.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Land clearing to establish pastures throughout the forested regions of Australia is a major driver of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor water quality outcomes, and in the northern savannas hotter, larger fires and overgrazing has degraded the condition of land and impacted ecosystem functions.

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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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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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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. The equivalent impact in the pastures of the west of the UK is when you see a field that that suddenly goes yellow. The post Its not the plough, but the how!

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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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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. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. Until its discovery in 2004 by an eagleeyed employee of Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources cycling past one of the farm’s pastures, Maynard Mall onee had no idea the lupine on the family property was endangered.

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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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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows. 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.

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Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 84

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

and drove down prices for cattle ranchers], Vilsack didn’t stop them. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. But I really think a bigger conversation needs to be had over putting the farm bill out to pasture and stripping USDA for parts. ” When JBS [ bought dozens of meat processing companies in the U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. Our Polyface eggs averaged 1,038.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. In the Gaza Strip, over a million people are facing catastrophic hunger.

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Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. Land-trafficking mafias , which operate in every region of Peru, have allowed developers to launder unclaimed swaths of rainforest into legal farmland. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes.

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