UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The increased diversity also provides more nutrient-dense pastures for our cattle to graze on. Instead, lets talk about cattle and making money. Yes, I said we are making more money with fewer cattle. The cattle balanced their own diet between the lush new growth and the high-fiber stockpile.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” 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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. But in 1981, a northern Wyoming ranch dog proudly presented his owners with his most recent treasure: a dead ferret. Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. Here are some other ideas on adding capital once you have land. Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 1997, some Texas cattle barons found this out the hard way. They had sued Oprah over a comment she made on her show the year before, during a segment about “mad cow disease”—or bovine spongiform encephalopathy—a brain disorder in cattle that can spread to humans via infected meat and tissue. It is rare, incurable, and fatal.

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