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. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g., Photo credit: Crop Trust.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

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. No soil amendments, no herbicides, no pesticides, no fungicides ever used.

Soil Science 94

Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 94

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Chemical hazards may arise from exposure to pesticides, feed additives, or contaminants in water sources, making regular testing and proper handling essential. Chemical Hazards - Chemical hazards may arise from exposure to pesticides, feed additives, drug residues, herbicides, environmental toxins, or contaminants in water sources.

Livestock 97

Livestock Manure Farming Farming 97

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Those systems still involve cattle being sent to large feedlots.

Supply Chain 145

Supply Chain Food Acre Agriculture 145

Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation.

Food 52

Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation.

Food 52

Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 111

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

Poultry 52

Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. Hilborn traced the mystery to the agricultural chemicals—neonicotinoids, fungicides, and glyphosate—used on an adjoining property.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

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. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft.

Agriculture 52

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.

Ranching 125

Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 125

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Holly Purdys Exmoor farm exemplifies the concept of better meat, with her pasture-fed beef and sheep, and more plants, through the introduction of a market garden and silvopasture incorporating fruit trees. It was an engaging discussion on the integral relationship between livestock and the biodiversity it supports.

Livestock 69

Livestock Food Agroecology Pasture 69