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The Causes of Soil Compaction on Grazing Lands

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However, for situations where major compaction exists, greater intervention beyond grazing and annual forage mixtures may be needed to get rid of the compaction. But before we get into that, let’s next discuss how to easily diagnose compaction using ver y simple , low-cost tools. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. We’re building topsoil, we’re sequestering carbon, we’re improving the forage, the trees, the grasses,” says Fouch, who designed the farm and is also an associate educator with the Savory Institute. “We

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Pasture Cropping: Planting Summer Cover Crops in Cool-Season Perennial Pastures

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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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The Season of Mud

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We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock. The challenges associated with mud on livestock farms, particularly cattle and horse farms, need to be addressed because their health affects production goals.

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Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

The Equation

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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