ATTRA

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here is a link to a video that talks about assessing pasture soil health using these tools. First, locate an area of the pasture that seems representative of the whole pasture. An 18-inch-long slice of soil positioned horizontally on a pasture to make it easier to look at soil structure and rooting depth.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

You could argue that compared to other livestock, cattle are pretty simple to feed – get them grazing during the growing season and feed them bales in the winter. During a dry year, you might want to look into alternatives to hay that can help your cattle get the baseline nutrition they need and get you and your ranch through the year.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature. 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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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With dry conditions affecting pastures across Alberta, this practice could help build resiliency in your pastures and livestock during times of drought. REGISTER The post Grazing for Water Management January 21st, 2022 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. Register Today.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. A large portion of their farm serves as rotational pasture for the goats and horses.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Not to mention how handy that strip of greenery adjacent to a wetland can be when your pasture isn’t growing or recovering the way you need it to. 10:07 – What is the best fencing to use when protecting your riparian areas from cattle? 14:09 – Did Duane use the wet riparian area (during a drought) to water the cattle?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. Keeping the ground temperature steady, maintaining adequate soil moisture, moving the cattle at the right pace…it’s a lot to keep in mind. So, she’s learned how to build her land back up.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Not only does his cattle system capture carbon, but he also improves water infiltration and water holding capacity in his soils. Rotationally grazed cattle behind an electric fence.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you live in Alberta and raise cattle, odds are you will try every possible way to keep that spring melt, or heavy rain, on your land. While you may throw in a shelter belt or an eco buffer, we hope that you’re also giving your pasture adequate rest and recovery so moisture can soak into the soil.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. Cattle + Crops for Soil Health & Protecting Vital Watersheds One of the strategies implemented at Valley View Ranch is integrating livestock management with crop management, says Rod.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Causes of Compaction There are generally two major causes of soil compaction on pastures: hoof impact and overgrazing. Research has shown that the amount of root exudates was lowest when: 1) leaves were removed in the vegetative phase (phase one); and 2) when plants were grazed severely (close to the pasture surface).

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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. The whole trick is to keep the water flowing.

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RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

30:53 – Why raise piedmontese cattle? This podcast has been partially funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada The post EP 77 – Healthy Food, Healthy Environment – SoR Part 9 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. 15:25 – Peter and Craig talk about the regenerative practices they use on the farm.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Based on my experience working with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions over the last six years, agriculture has enough humility and modesty when it comes to belief in one’s self. The differences between South Glanton and Bla-Kar weren’t as big as the differences between the three farms I wrote about in Regenerating Rural Opportunities.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Other recent grantees have included the Center for Rural Affairs, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Soil Health Institute, and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. As research and reporting began to call significant attention to the company’s negative effects on rural economies and the environment , Harold Lee Scott, Jr.,

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Then, two years later, it added still more land in this rural Nebraska county tucked between Chimney Rock and Lake McConaughy. Rex Ranch employees moving cow-calf pairs through a ranch pasture. Austin Anderson, Rex Ranch’s current general manager, previously worked at another AgReserves cattle ranch in Florida. It’s the No.

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Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen.

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RR2CS

APRIL 25, 2023

The post EP63 Extended Grazing appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP63 Extended Grazing appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While these networks remain strong in many ways, there are also vulnerabilities due to the erosion of local services and infrastructure within rural communities. He sees it as a way of revitalising rural communities and giving space for new enterprises to develop. Straus feels that “ collaborating with the next generation is essential.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After looking in vain for an affordable local wheat source, Ellis decided to experiment with dry-farming the grain himself on a small piece of land 45 miles north of San Diego, in rural Valley Center. Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recent Actions In recent years, and most noticeably during the supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, several agencies within the USDA – including Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service – have helped direct critical funding specifically to small and very small meat processing plants.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

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. Rob: I was privileged to have been raised (although born in Toronto) in Barbados. I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

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. Rob: I was privileged to have been raised (although born in Toronto) in Barbados. I was very much drawn to foraging and eating tropical fruits.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The drop, Vilsack argued, has caused ripple effects across rural America, resulting in the loss of schools, businesses and healthcare infrastructure, and the overall hollowing out of farming communities. But the number of cattle in large dairies and feedlots—and the overall number of larger dairies and feedlots—went up.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. But they have to be big.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Although they were not officially tenants of more than half the land, they continued to farm all 61 acres, grazing 20 acres of pasture that had passed into the hands of Bristol City Council, and managing the remaining 13 acres as a hay meadow by sub-letting it from the tenant of the company that had made the original purchase.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The session was expertly chaired by Baroness Sue Hayman, previously Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Anna Blumfield, Deersbrook Farm Anna Blumfield from Deersbrook Farm rears pasture-fed Sussex cattle and runs a farm shop and butchery. We can’t afford to lose any more small abattoirs.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Goats are browsers—they’ll eat grass and weeds like cattle and sheep if they have to, but their preference is to eat brush. By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Recently we held a goat production class out in Luling, Texas, at the marvelous S3 Legacy Ranch. One question that came up was about feeding them.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. xix] Regenerative agriculture also has potential to support resilient rural communities and jobs. cattle industry.

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