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The Rancher's Guide to Sustainable Grazing Practices

Farmbrite

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care.

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“Bristol’s last working farm”: A farm for the future

Sustainable Food Trust

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. The constant threat of loss This year, for the first time in probably hundreds of years, hay has not been made on Yew Tree Farm’s 13 acres of meadow. Put them in a drawer?”

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Regenerating Humility

RR2CS

Bla-Kar grows mainly soybeans and corn with some livestock integration and South Glanton is a mixed grain and cattle operation. It went against what I had previously learned about good pasture management—graze 30%, trample 30% and leave 30%. As I walked through the meadow, I was hit by flashbacks of my childhood.

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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

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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Measuring and Valuing: Farmers, workers and community

Sustainable Food Trust

The farm is an organic fifth-generation beef and dairy farm in north Somerset, which is mainly made up of permanent pasture and hay meadows, both rich in native grasses, wildflowers and wildlife. Langford Farm, run by Teresa and Charlie Allward, was one of the farms involved in the pilot.

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How to Prevent and Treat Horse Fly Bites on Livestock

Farmbrite

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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Measuring and valuing: Nature

Sustainable Food Trust

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain.

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