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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. Photo credit: Crop Trust.

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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. I find it sinister and rather shocking that the chemical companies refer to pesticides as plant protection products. The post Its not the plough, but the how!

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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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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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain. While many UK-reared cattle are now finished on a diet that includes some cereals, they typically spend the greater part of their lives grazing outside, and for people seeking the most sustainable meat option, produce from 100% grass-fed animals is available.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. We weren’t going to use fungicides, herbicides, nor pesticides — partly for the health of the land and the diversity of the ecosystem, and partly for our own health.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. Grass finished beef has 300 percent more riboflavin than grain-finished. The difference is profound. I’m not suggesting the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While it wouldn’t affect numbers from the past, the agency did recently commit to only buying red meat from cattle raised in the U.S. What Role Does Farmland Play? Why Aren’t Federal Agencies Enforcing Pesticide Rules That Protect Farmworkers? The storms can also destroy crops and harm livestock. Who Benefits?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

A fifth rule related to creating fairer cattle markets is still in its early stages. million acres of farmland are involved as of January 2025. Regulating Pesticides and Other Chemicals Ongoing pesticide approvals and regulations generally chug along without much disruptioneven as administrations change.

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