Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 104

ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Goats are browsers—they’ll eat grass and weeds like cattle and sheep if they have to, but their preference is to eat brush. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop.

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Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats have certain protein needs for growth, reproduction, and milk production. Cattle Alfalfa Hay: High in protein and calcium, excellent for dairy cows and young, growing cattle. It is known to be a top choice to grow in grazing areas, for hay, silage, and green manure or cover crops.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 70

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. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 122

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. Nobody puts down carbon for bedding, so all the sheep are on solid manure packs that stink and are filthy. When the sheep go to pasture, someone is with them at all times—armed. Saturday night I did my last of three 3-hour workshops, just outside of Hebron, and am now heading back home.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52

Farmbrite

MARCH 16, 2023

Here's what you need to know about preventing and treating horse fly bites in horses and cattle: Horse flies are blood-sucking insects that attack livestock, such as horses and cattle. They lay eggs on grassy areas like pastures or meadows where the larvae will grow into adult flies within three weeks of hatching.

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Livestock Manure Pasture Cattle 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

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. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 80

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure. Grazing livestock are a key focus of the SFT’s work and the subject of our next report, due out later this year.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The number of cattle, the biggest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions—both from burps and manure storage—actually went down by 5.6 But the number of cattle in large dairies and feedlots—and the overall number of larger dairies and feedlots—went up. million over the 2017 census. The EWG analysis found similar trends.

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Farming 96

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. But they have to be big.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die. The need for fertilizer is lessened as the livestock service the soil through their manure.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 78

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The impact that the drought is having on pasture is forcing the culling of cattle and reducing the cattle herd.” Instead, while there is plenty of uncertainty, the most likely causes are fewer cattle burping methane and less fertilizer use. Why were there fewer cattle?

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Cattle 94

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. Travelers drug manure into hotels. Our Polyface eggs averaged 1,038.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

During the year, the cattle are moved to new grazing. In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock. By the 1990s, beavers were virtually gone from the ranch, due in part to cattle degrading the riparian (banks and wetlands) areas as they sought water and greener grass.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 122

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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