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.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Glen: For the last seven or eight years we’ve been seeding brassicas with oats and forage peas. It’s good quality feed, high in protein and fibers for the cattle, but also, the root systems help to break up the hard pan soil that’s formed from being conventionally farmed for years. How is swath grazing beneficial for soil health?

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

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. 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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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 87

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

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

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 98

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” They also want to create access for community members to grow their own food and forage for wild foods. It was literally cooking.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

As federal officials grapple with how to contain the highly contagious strain of avian flu that has infected chickens, turkeys, and dairy cattle on farms across the U.S., It also has spread to the cattle industry, infecting 16 herds to date. It’s the first time an avian flu virus has been detected in cattle. million dairy cows.

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Poultry Cattle Agriculture Agriculture 144

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.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 84

Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While sheep are small enough to graze easily under conventional solar panels, grazing cattle or growing many crops necessitates higher panels. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said. megawatt array was feasible.

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Agriculture Agriculture Construction Farming 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 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 124

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