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Marketing that Matters: Audubon Seal Connects Ranchers and Consumers

Food Tank

Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison. The Audubon Conservation Ranching Initiative encourages ranchers to pay attention to birds as an indication of ecosystem health.

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Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs

Modern Farmer

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the Wests primary ecosystem engineers. Bison like to wallow in the dirt exposed by prairie dogs, and graze on the nutritious grass and plants that resprout after a prairie dog pruning.

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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. Happy Goat’s humans also assist by doing some pruning to ensure that clearance extends to six vertical feet. Sharp is careful not to let the goats overgraze, which can compact soil.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. The Raika state that camel foraging has a positive pruning effect on the acacias and other trees, inducing them to branch out stronger.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

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. Luckily, Turner gives readers best practices on how to properly care for their preserves by reviewing at-home food safety measures.

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Coalition Letter Supporting USDA Secretary Nominee Brooke Rollins

NASDA

Sincerely, Agriculture Retailers Association American Farm Bureau Federation American Feed Industry Association American Seed Trade Association American Soybean Association American Sugarbeet Growers Association CropLife America Farm Credit Council International Fresh Produce Association Meat Institute National Association of Conservation Districts (..)

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