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PASTURE INSURANCE

The Lunatic Farmer

This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least. I can think of other things more important than water, like controlling the grazing, putting on compost, but let’s take this sentence at face value and play along.

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On The Ground: Your Dog’s Food Probably Comes From a Factory Farm. Meet Some Folks Who Want to Change That

Modern Farmer

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. Farm Hounds jerky. The Conscious Pet founders Mason Arnold and Jessica Kezar Arnold.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

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. Tucker Gretebeck planting trees on All Season Farm. We’re lucky to have experienced generational changes.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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The Carbon Chronicles – Part 2

UnderstandingAg

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create.

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APARTMENT CHICKENS

The Lunatic Farmer

Many of you realized that this is not what I’m advocating instead of pasture, but some folks jumped to the conclusion that I had all of a sudden abandoned outdoor chickens in favor of indoor protocols. I didn’t say to quit pasturing chickens. If the bedding is kept moist—and it should be so it’ll compost—it won’t have much dust.

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All Chopped Up with Somewhere to Grow

ATTRA

Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. Mulberry ( Morus sp.) is also highly useful for this system of “cut and carry” but does not fix nitrogen like its leguminous counterparts. Mulberry, however, grows like a weed and is highly nutritious.