Agwired

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Amanda Radke, a fifth-generation rancher from Mitchell, South Dakota, was recognized for her extraordinary commitment to advancing agriculture, rural communities, and food security. Radke, alongside her husband, Tyler, and their four children operate Radke Land & Cattle, an Angus seedstock operation.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Look at the OS map for the area surrounding our farm in Highland Perthshire, and it is littered with Gaelic placenames related to the keeping of cattle and goats. ” We know that we can manage our grasslands in a way that works for rural communities and the environment alike.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the third in a series taking a deeper look at how federal market opportunities support the success of efficient regional food systems. Each year, USDA spends billions purchasing food for schools, food pantries, and community nutrition programs across rural and urban settings.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

million head of cattle and calves on U.S. 1, 2025, according to the Cattle report published by the U.S. The United States Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the resumption of cattle and bison imports from Mexico. There were 86.7 farms as of Jan. To protect U.S.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. According to the company’s website , Choice Canning sells shrimp in more than 48,000 retail and food-service locations in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and flew back to the U.S. billion shrimp industry.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Rural Response Hotline : 1-800-464-0258. People unfamiliar with modern farming may find this hard to imagine, as many still have a mental image of agriculture that involves iconic scenes from Hollywood movies of lean farmers and ranchers riding horses, herding cattle, and tending to the land using manual labor.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

4368, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. Letter RE: Coalition Urges Opposition to Spartz Amendment (Submitted #113; Rules Print #76) to H.R.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2023

Your new favorite farm podcast about overcoming adversity, achieving success, and appreciating everything rural life has to offer. Many Americans grow up without understanding the resilience, dedication, and courage it takes to get food from the farm to the table. REAL STORIES. Without farmers, we’ll all go hungry.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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ATTRA

JULY 2, 2024

Cattle are very sensitive to these toxins and sometimes whole herds of cattle are found dead near the pond when there are high toxin concentrations. Do not use untreated water for drinking, cooking or cleaning food, or washing camp gear or cleaning/cooking of food. Boiling water will not remove toxins. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. The farm remains in the family today, and, as well as producing organic food, contains a rich diversity of native woodland and nature corridors.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

USDA is making the investments through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) , a program that has seen record demand in response to historic funding provided by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Food & Agriculture Career Guide.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. Then there’s the Walmart Foundation, which last year gave the Nature Conservancy $1.5

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It is an attitude that undoubtedly aides the success of a social prescribing programme, instigated by the Sustainable Food Trust , that gives local people with health and wellbeing needs an opportunity to immerse themselves in day-to-day activities on a proper working farm. Put them in a drawer?” Catherine is tired and exasperated.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 3, 2025

BFF is one of a handful of organizations formed since 2020 to support BIPOC farmers and food businesses unable to obtain capital and other critical aid through conventional options, like a farm credit bureau or bank. Another is Potlikker Capital , a social justice charitable fund supporting mainly rural BIPOC farmers across the country.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Some CAFOs can produce as much waste as a small city, but without comparable waste management infrastructure, rural communities face health, economic, and environmental hazards. Large cities are often cited as major culprits when it comes to waste and pollution, but a CAFO in a rural area can compete with even a midsize metropolis. “A

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

food labels only be used on products derived from animals that were born, raised, and slaughtered within the United States. Small farmers and ranchers in rural America especially felt the brunt of this. Announced March 11 by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the new rule will require that “Product of U.S.A.” The number of U.S.

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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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RR2CS

APRIL 21, 2022

Cattle ranching on the Blood Reserve can be a very rewarding experience and endeavour, however, it does come with challenges in today’s changing times. Our Farmer’s Blog is also the go-to source for stories of producers in Alberta who are going the extra mile with their management practices for the land, food and their communities.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Originally from rural South Dakota, she had been around farming her whole life, but this felt different. “We Larger farms mean more cattle. More cattle means more waste and runoff problems for nearby communities, especially in areas of population growth. Dairy cattle can be seen inside Ledgeview Farms on July 23, 2024.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Today, new generations of innovative farmers see agroforestry as a solution to not just producing nutrient-dense food and specialty crops but to also mitigate the intensity of climate change-induced weather events. The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Johnson laughs.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

You could argue that compared to other livestock, cattle are pretty simple to feed – get them grazing during the growing season and feed them bales in the winter. During a dry year, you might want to look into alternatives to hay that can help your cattle get the baseline nutrition they need and get you and your ranch through the year.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 19, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Then, in early 2024, bird flu hit another sector of livestock: cattle. Like what you see?

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. As farms consolidate, more and more of the wealth leaves rural communities and flows to the Cargills of the world. From Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Bridging the Echo Chambers project is a Food Water Wellness Foundation project that delves into the debate about the impacts of livestock on the environment and how we can facilitate healthy and constructive conversations between people who have different views and opinions.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We have full confidence that under your leadership and with a bipartisan commitment to the American people, you will enact a 2024 farm bill that continues the exemplary track record of innovative and modernized farm and food policy to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Thank you for considering our request.

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RR2CS

APRIL 4, 2023

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Susan Marcus of Lakeland College to talk about selecting and managing cattle traits so that your operation can be profitable during a good year while also getting you through a dry year. 19:46 – Are there cattle behaviors that can tell a producer if a cow is more drought-resilient than others?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That’s what Bobbie Kramer, a veterinarian near Portland, Oregon, was wondering when she responded to our recent call for reader questions about where their food comes from. “As I know that in other parts of the world, lamb and mutton are more economical and popular to raise than cattle,” she writes. “I’ve

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Like what you see here? My parents both worked full-time off the farm. To care for it.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“As a kid, my brother and I spent every Sunday in Hilbert at my Grandparent’s farm where my grandmother imbued us with an appreciation for eating healthy farm-raised food,” Kari said. Local food systems and conservation efforts are intertwined, making the success of each reliant on the other.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you live in Alberta and raise cattle, odds are you will try every possible way to keep that spring melt, or heavy rain, on your land. 13:14 – How do you keep cattle out of dugouts while ensuring they have adequate access to water? The post EP53 Dugouts appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

where over 170 attendees gathered to hear the latest ingredient, weather and market forecasts and discuss the ways this unique industry segment factors into cattle producers’ sustainability objectives. agriculture and global food and renewable energy systems. EPA and the universities will host the conference Nov.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists concluded that the cost for rural Iowa residents—who often live in areas with smaller, more expensive water systems—could be as much as $4,960 more per person per year to filter out nitrates from their water than their counterparts in cities like Des Moines. coli poisoning in their water. “I

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities. Sustaining funding for these programs is vital to continuing to build a more resilient and agile food system.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 7, 2024

The Texas panhandle fires, also known as the Smokehouse Creek fires, are a devastating blow to many cattle ranchers throughout the state, with more than a million acres caught in the blazes. How will the Texas panhandle fires impact the global cattle market? Fire and smoke could trigger pregnant cows to give birth prematurely.

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