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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

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.

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Industry Ag News 3/22

Agwired

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.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

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.

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

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

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How food became a weapon in America’s culture war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.

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