Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison. The Audubon Conservation Ranching Initiative encourages ranchers to pay attention to birds as an indication of ecosystem health.

Marketing 125

Marketing Ranching Food Cattle 125

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. The goats are part of a growing trend of using livestock to mitigate wildfire risks across the West. Happy Goat’s humans also assist by doing some pruning to ensure that clearance extends to six vertical feet.

Acre 145

Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Grazing livestock are a key focus of the SFT’s work and the subject of our next report, due out later this year. In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. In fact, until very recently they were not kept on farms at all.

Livestock 75

Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Nevada Cattlemen’s Association New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau New Mexico Wine & Grape Growers Association New York Corn & Soybean Growers Association New York Farm Bureau New York Pork Producers Coop Inc New York State Division, IWLA Normex, Inc.

Farming 130

Farming Farming Seeding Ruralism 130

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

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.

Ranching 96

Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 96

NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas. She continues to raise livestock today and is now passing her passion for agriculture on to her children, who are also involved in FFA and showing steers.

Grain 147

Grain Seeding Ruralism Poultry 147