National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples of these investments are the Meat and Poultry Programs (MP programs), such as the Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG), Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) and Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which have helped smaller plants scale up or prepare themselves for federal inspection utilizing different sized grants and loans.

Processing 110

Processing Poultry Farming Farming 110

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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.

Food 134

Food Pasture Livestock Agriculture 134

ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs. This waterer provided frost-free water for the cull ewes on pasture this past week with wind chill temperatures in the 30-below-and-worse range. We have a group of doelings in another pasture and we put a heated bucket there. Heated poultry waterer and heated bucket.

Livestock 98

Livestock Cattle Pasture Poultry 98

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Jacob, a first-generation farmer, is thankful for the support of his parents and credits his involvement showing cattle in 4-H as a teenager for his career in farming and conservation. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Poultry Pasture 52

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

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.

Poultry 67

Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 67

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements. Every species is different, and he’ll address cattle, hogs, and poultry transport and movement. I’ll do a presentation on landscape design.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Poultry Cattle 52

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

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

USPOULTRY ’s Women’s Leadership Conference provided attendees with a slate of speakers to facilitate career growth and development among women leaders in the poultry and egg industry.

Manufacturing 59

Manufacturing Ranching Cattle Beverage 59

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Avoid the use of manure (products) and waste from off-premise (poultry, cattle, or other livestock) unless products are certified pathogen-free.

Livestock 87

Livestock Manure Farming Farming 87

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down. This has translated to a lower price forecast, with broiler receipts down $6.5

Agriculture 59

Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

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. The world does not need industrial camel production, in fact we must strive to prevent camels following in the tracks of pigs, cattle and poultry.

Livestock 75

Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

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.

Soil Science 71

Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 71

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

And while the numbers of cattle and sheep in aggregate have increased by less than 50 per cent in the past sixty years, pig numbers have increased by a factor of 2.3 Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Production Pasture Food 52

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 131

Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 131

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing. The superior wine quality led this vineyard to elevate its market standing with award-winning products.

Farming 63

Farming Farming Technology Yield 63

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Gil took an interest in cattle and grazing as a teenager. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

Cattle 52

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 52

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

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. One villager, Awdah Hathaleen, said on social media , “The shepherds now have been completely cut off from their pastures and fields. What is even worse is that the herds of settlers have now begun grazing their sheep within the borders of the village.

Farming 127

Farming Farming Livestock Food 127

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that.

Cattle 85

Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 85

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. Could the farm bill address this problem?

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98