Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. Cattle are often fed a corn or soy diet instead of grass, which can lead to illness.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The couple have established a thriving low-input vegetable-growing business, supported by a small number of cattle and pigs that fertilise the land and provide the family with home-reared meat. One of these, a Longhorn Limousin cross, who would later come to be known as Bullock 374, was purchased by Robinson.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

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. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket. What does that mean for pasture-raised poultry, which spend most of their lives outdoors and therefore are at greater risk of contact with contagious wild birds? They are out on pasture, eating grass. There are, though, other ways of making an omelet.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s ’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I walks among the cattle on his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. Albert Johnson Jr. 9, 2023.

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