RR2CS

JUNE 6, 2024

and experienced regenerative farmer, will share his practical insights, success and not-so-successful stories in integrating forage blends into farming operations. This event is a unique opportunity for farmers, ranchers, and agricultural enthusiasts to discover how forage blends can improve both livestock feed quality and soil vitality.

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Forage Livestock Cultivation Ruralism 75

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. The largest wildfire in state history destroyed more than 1 million acres of land and property, leaving surviving livestock without adequate forage.

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Forage Livestock Farmland Distribution 85

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats have certain protein needs for growth, reproduction, and milk production. Carbohydrates and Energy, and Fiber The amount of energy contained in hay or forage is contained in carbohydrates. Cattle Alfalfa Hay: High in protein and calcium, excellent for dairy cows and young, growing cattle.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 92

Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Birds that live on grasslands rely on the ecosystem for everything from foraging to nesting. Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison.

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Marketing Ranching Food Cattle 124

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

AgriLife Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Featured topics will be Right to Farm Act, forage trials, commodity market updates The O.D. Butler Field Day is scheduled May 17 at the Camp Cooley Division of the Circle X Land and Cattle Company in Franklin.

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Forage Cattle Marketing Farming 52

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. Sustainable grazing practices, on the other hand, ensure that pastures remain lush and fertile by allowing plants to recover and regenerate.

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Pasture Ranching Forage Cattle 52

RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find. 25:06 – What is forage-finished beef? 30:53 – Why raise piedmontese cattle? Highlights: 5:22 – Peter shares the history of Peony Farms.

Food 52

Food Fertilizer Forage Ruralism 52

Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

Grass-fed beef is also leaner than conventional beef; this means there will be less fat marbling in your steak or burger when cooking with grass-fed meat compared to regular supermarket products from factory farms that raise cattle on corn feedlots. Make sure you have a sufficient supply of forage. • Get a soil test.

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Pasture Farming Farming Forage 52

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2018, the Halls have been on a mission to collaborate with local organizations to rejuvenate their land, which was previously subjected to conventional farming methods involving fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Glen: For the last seven or eight years we’ve been seeding brassicas with oats and forage peas.

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

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. Left unchecked, they’re fertile ground, experts say, for harboring fecund grasses and other non-native plants, trees and even deer.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 125

RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops.

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Ranching Cattle Pasture Family Farming 52

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Photography by Lena Beck) Grassfed: For grazing animals such as cows, the USDA defines “grassfed” as animals that have access to grass or other pasture forage during the growing season and derive the majority of their nutrients from this source.

Food 124

Food Free Range Pasture Poultry 124

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. When animals are exposed to frequent stressors , it can cause an increased susceptibility to disease, decreased feed intake and reduced fertility.

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Pasture Technology Livestock Cattle 127

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. In the long run, though, costs are reduced.

Farming 97

Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

invest in deeper root development and have greater mycorrhizal associations, which afford them vastly greater capacity to scavenge nutrients in low fertility soils,” Reeske wrote in the grant proposal. percent, and it’s concentrated in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and used mostly for animal forage.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence. The mix includes sorghum-sudangrass, sunn hemp, cowpeas, and millet.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 100

ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

You look out over the field and imagine the herd pushing into a paddock, into a knee-high sward, and they immediately lower their heads, bite, and jerk their necks, ripping mouthfuls of nutritious forage from the ground. Swallows dive overhead feasting on the flies hovering over the backs of the cattle. There’s peace here.

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Pasture Crop Seeding Crop Rotation 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 87

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The couple have established a thriving low-input vegetable-growing business, supported by a small number of cattle and pigs that fertilise the land and provide the family with home-reared meat. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

During the pilot, a six-week programme of farm-based activities was offered to participants, including spending time with farm animals, farm walks, foraging and harvesting, healthy cooking demonstrations, collecting honey and getting occupational experience.

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Farming Farming Meadow Pasture 52

Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits. It was this observation that inspired my exploration of urban agriculture in Toronto.

Food 52

Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits. It was this observation that inspired my exploration of urban agriculture in Toronto.

Food 52

Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. During the year, the cattle are moved to new grazing. This happened not only on the Maggie Creek Ranch but the public lands where Griggs’s cattle grazed. Cattle had more and better-quality drinking water.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 125

NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Idaho Grain Producers Association Idaho Potato Commission Idaho Wool Growers Association IL Corn Growers Association Illinois Farm Bureau Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association Illinois Milk Producers Association Illinois Pork Producers Association Illinois Seed Trade Association, Inc.

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Grain Seeding Ruralism Poultry 147

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98