Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. How to lease farmland for alternative energy Why you should join or start a farm cooperative Is a CSA right for you The government offers a number of programs for young farmers. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

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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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

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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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvester 74

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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Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 83