Caff

MAY 31, 2023

(Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Locke Ranch on May 23rd. Attendees were treated to a walk through the orchard with Chris and Christy Locke, who were participants in the original BIOS project over twenty years ago.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

It’a not just because it’s cheaper and not just because Capay Hills Orchard , his farm just north of Sacramento, is in an area of California that is increasingly drought-prone. The outer almond hull, which is over 50 percent of the weight of the almond, is sold as cattle feed,” he says. My orchard has a lot of trees,” says Paddock. “I’m

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. They were a rough crew of sheep!” Johnson laughs. They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Its agrihood model uses tiny homes as the residences, with 11 families currently sharing the responsibilities of gardening and caring for the chickens, honey bees and orchards.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I drove 10 hours round-trip for a three-hour conversation because he is a Western Slope cattle rancher who supports wolf reintroduction. “I One partner rejuvenated the old apple orchard, planted another 120 heritage-variety trees and started a cider business. “A Meadowlarks were singing forte voce in the fields.

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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. Despite competing for land and water, the region’s orchards and milk farms have developed an unlikely partnership, says Sumner.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. The trees shaded and protected the chickens. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

It came from putting into practice what I was learning about adaptive grazing, cow nutrition, raising environmentally adapted cattle, and epigenetics from Allen’s and Gabe’s sharing their hard-earned and hard-learned lessons, as well as their insights.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. I dont have an orchard on my farm, but if I did, and I saw this thing [climate change] coming, you know, maybe you look at tearing the trees out and starting to plant what I can in those fields.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 30, 2024

For example, if a New York district wants to buy apples grown in-state today, they would have to evaluate bids from in-state orchards alongside bids from out-of-state distributors, many of which are likely to come in with a much lower price. “It Some states, meanwhile, had already closed their borders to incoming cattle.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No. Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” For example, if you want to put an orchard in an area with heavy clay or muskeg, it won’t work.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. If a pregnant cow chows down on the plant, its toxins can cause the unborn calf to be born with crooked cow syndrome and be unable to walk.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

“Hurricane-force winds and torrential rains destroyed fall crops still in the field, knocked down pecan orchards that growers spent decades cultivating, and damaged a million and a half acres of timberland,” said Ossoff. ” Sen.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While sheep are small enough to graze easily under conventional solar panels, grazing cattle or growing many crops necessitates higher panels. We’re looking at everything from orchard crops like apples to potatoes to grazing systems to hay to forage,” he said. megawatt array was feasible.

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Agwired

JANUARY 26, 2024

My Grandpa, My Tree, and Me” follows Grandpa as he tenderly cares for each tree in his orchard, including his favorite – a pecan tree, planted for his granddaughter on the day she was born. beef cattle division. The award was presented at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 105th Convention. “My

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

Renamed the Owens Valley by white settlers, the valley was a snow-capped patchwork of pear farms and cattle ranches. The occasional fur trapper and mountain man quickly gave way to a steady stream of sheep and cattle ranchers, and by the 1860s, a community of farmers and ranchers had seized tracts of Payahuunadü for themselves.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised.

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Civil Eats

MAY 29, 2024

And just last week, California lawmakers voted to move a bill that would ban paraquat in fields and orchards starting in 2026 forward. For example, many counties and cities around the country have banned the spraying of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, in parks where children play.

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