National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change.

Food 111

Food Seeding Crop Poultry 111

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. Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. In 2002, U.S.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

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.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 92

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. Cost savings : Regenerative farming often reduces the need for expensive inputs like synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Integrating livestock : Some regenerative systems incorporate livestock, such as cattle or sheep, into crop rotations.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 104

Agwired

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Wade will be the staff lead for NASDA’s Plant Agriculture and Pesticide Regulations and Rural Development and Financial Security Committees. As Director, Wade will advance the organization’s public policy advocacy with his nearly 10 years of experience in agricultural policy and government affairs.

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Agriculture Agriculture Rural Development Ruralism 45

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. It does not set parameters for pesticides, growth hormones or antibiotics. Can I find additional information about the product separate from the words used on the label? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are also not considered organic.

Food 122

Food Free Range Pasture Poultry 122

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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.

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Supply Chain Food Acre Agriculture 145

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

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.

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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.

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Livestock Manure Farming Farming 97

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2018, the Halls have been on a mission to collaborate with local organizations to rejuvenate their land, which was previously subjected to conventional farming methods involving fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Our cover crop cocktail has resulted in an immense reduction in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.

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Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More than 70 percent of North America’s biodiversity-rich prairies have been replaced with wheat, soy, corn, alfalfa and canola, primarily used as cattle feed. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States.

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Farming Farming Ecology Food 113

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Tenants agree to not use any pesticides and allow the Wicklers access to the yard. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk. They worked with banks to get a second rental property in 2018 and a third in 2020—all within a mile of each other.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 117

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. An Arizona Walnut tree. Photo CC-licensed by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University.)

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

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. Incorporating diverse forms of the same species into a field is one means of reducing pest pressure. Photo credit: Crop Trust.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 96

AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In-person, virtual options available for those seeking continuing education units The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the District 8 Farm and Ranch Seminar both in person and virtually on Dec. 14 in Waco and at different locations districtwide. The event will be held from 7:30 a.m.-4 with registration beginning at 7 a.m.

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Ranching Farming Farming Pesticide 97

Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Overall, you will find that planting cover crops will increase yields, improve nutrients, reduce erosion, weeds and pests, and the need for added pesticides and other chemical use. Whether you raise cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, or something else, here are a few things to help you optimize your livestock production.

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Production Farming Farming Crop Rotation 97

UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the acres he’s transitioned to regenerative agriculture, Mestas allows naturally occurring cover crops to emerge between the rows of the agave, and then grazes livestock- including cattle, horses, donkeys and sheep- to further advance soil health. You have to be calm because you can’t make good decisions when you’re scared.”

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 52

UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the acres he’s transitioned to regenerative agriculture, Mestas allows naturally occurring cover crops to emerge between the rows of the agave, and then grazes livestock- including cattle, horses, donkeys and sheep- to further advance soil health. You have to be calm because you can’t make good decisions when you’re scared.”

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Acre Crop 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.

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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.

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Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

in conjunction with sheep, which are lower-slung than cattle and therefore better able to graze in tandem with solar panels. Solar panels might sit too low to allow a farmer like Cobb’s tall native plants to grow, or to let his cattle meander beneath them, or to let agricultural machinery through, which is where the expense comes in.

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Production loans are issued to cover the cost of land purchases; equipment purchases such as tractors; seeds, fertilizers and chemicals needed for growing crops; breeding livestock like cows or pigs that produce milk; feeder cattle sold at auction markets, and more. Here are some other ideas on adding capital once you have land.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Industrially farmed salmon are laden with pesticides that are often used illegally, pumped with antibiotics, sometimes genetically modified, rife with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls – highly carcinogenic chemicals), and tortured by predatory sea lice.

Food 98

Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

Civil Eats

APRIL 30, 2024

Read More: Inside New York’s Pursuit to Bring Local Food Into More Schools Farm-to-School Programs Are Finally Making Inroads on Capitol Hill California Farm-to-School Efforts Get a Big Influx of Cash Pandemic Disruptions Created an Opportunity for Organic School Meals in California Pesticide Ban Moves Forward. based on the situation.

Food 145

Food Orchard Cattle Processing 145

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.” I think if we hadn’t been a small farm, we wouldn’t still be here,” admits Jenna. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Wyoming Department of Agriculture labels prairie dogs as pest species and offers training in properly using pesticides to kill them; at the same time, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department lists the black-tailed prairie dog as a species of greatest conservation need. This uncertainty has led to some bureaucratic contradictions.

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Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 86

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.

Agriculture 111

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 111

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.

Food 141

Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain. While many UK-reared cattle are now finished on a diet that includes some cereals, they typically spend the greater part of their lives grazing outside, and for people seeking the most sustainable meat option, produce from 100% grass-fed animals is available.

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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

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. The goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis walked up to the podium displaying a “Save Our Beef” poster — the logo designed as a parody of the World Economic Forum’s brand.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. Grass finished beef has 300 percent more riboflavin than grain-finished. The Bionutrient Food Association is documenting the wildly disparate nutrient contents of various foods.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. Buy local when possible.)

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Farming Farming Marketing Agriculture 61

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

During the year, the cattle are moved to new grazing. 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. This happened not only on the Maggie Creek Ranch but the public lands where Griggs’s cattle grazed.

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Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 125