UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers. At first, I thought this was what I needed to do.

Plowing 95

Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 95

Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. Pledges will benefit the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Disaster Relief Fund and county-level efforts recommended by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Plowing 45

Plowing Net Farm Income Farming Farming 45

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Nancy Utesch and her husband, Lynn, live on 150 acres of land in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, where they rotationally graze beef cattle. ppm for nitrates. coli poisoning in their water. “I

Fertilizer 145

Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And just this year, Russia bombed the Ukrainian port of Odessa to disrupt grain exports. In 1997, some Texas cattle barons found this out the hard way. The cattle barons claimed they lost more than $10 million in business as a result of Winfrey’s comment. The Germans starved Leningrad during World War II.

Food 52

Food Greenhouse Cattle Production 52