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Hay Y'all! Estimating Your Hay Needs

Farmbrite

Estimating how much hay you need for the winter is an important factor in most cattle, horse, goat, and sheep operations. It is typically utilized as animal fodder for livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, and horses, but can also be used for smaller animals such as rabbits. How much hay do you need to store for the winter?

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Regenerative Beef Gets a Boost from California Universities

Civil Eats

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Obviously, we’re not going to change patient behavior. in [one] hospital stay.”

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In Bad Naturalist, an Author Settles on a Mountain Top and Tries to Farm

Modern Farmer

Two hundred years ago, many of these hillsides were timbered for orchards. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain. An old pasture filled in with blackberry.

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The Best Types of Hay to Choose for Your Livestock

Farmbrite

Ruminants like cattle, sheep, and goats have certain protein needs for growth, reproduction, and milk production. Orchard grass hay is soft as well as palatable and good for animals with respiratory issues or animals that are picky or need variety in their meals. Orchard Grass Hay: Similar to Timothy, but softer and more palatable.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

For example, at Eckert’s Farm in Belleville, MO, Chris Eckert has seen extreme freezes killing off parts of his peach orchard. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

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. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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CHICKENS UNDER COFFEE TREES

The Lunatic Farmer

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. 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. It’s no idle threat. anywhere in the world.

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