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Marketing that Matters: Audubon Seal Connects Ranchers and Consumers

Food Tank

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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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. Happy Goat’s humans also assist by doing some pruning to ensure that clearance extends to six vertical feet. Sharp is careful not to let the goats overgraze, which can compact soil.

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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs

Modern Farmer

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the Wests primary ecosystem engineers. Bison like to wallow in the dirt exposed by prairie dogs, and graze on the nutritious grass and plants that resprout after a prairie dog pruning.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

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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Coalition Letter Supporting USDA Secretary Nominee Brooke Rollins

NASDA

Sincerely, Agriculture Retailers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Feed Industry Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association American Sugarbeet Growers Association CropLife America Farm Credit Council International Fresh Produce Association Meat Institute National Association of Conservation Districts (..)

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