UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Also known as “cultivated meat,” these products are made by taking stem cells from animals and growing them petri-dish style around a scaffolding in nutrient-rich broth. The reasoning behind the cultivation of lab grown meat is comprised of several thought processes. Pasture and range conditions are significantly better.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Tetrick is the co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which operates Good Meat , one of two companies approved by the USDA in June to begin selling cultivated, or lab-grown, chicken in the United States. So, our focus is how does cultivating meat ultimately replace a large-scale production of animal protein?” The lab at Good Meat.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

Yet there are all sorts of intangibles—from locking up carbon in the pastures to building up soil through intensive grazing, that don’t show up in the our current system’s accounting of the two operations.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Available course topics include cut flower production, poultry production, pastured pigs, mushroom cultivation, maple syrup production, vegetable and berry production, and woodlot management. Courses have tiered pricing based on household size and income to make access to the courses more affordable and equitable for everyone.

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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. 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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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. Together, we can cultivate a fashion industry that honors the health of our planet and the well-being of its people. Let’s explore how wool and cotton fibers are produced and why it matters to all of us. This is where the story of wool begins.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. In addition, USDA-supported agroforestry practices include efforts to mitigate soil erosion and protect waterways.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Photography via author.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 26, 2023

Farmers commonly use sprinkler irrigation for row crops, orchards, and pasture irrigation. Farmers typically use this method for rice cultivation and certain specialty crops. High-pressure pumps propel water through a network of pipes and sprinkler heads.

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SILT

MAY 24, 2023

Let’s get to know Ethan and Carly a little better: Ethan, originally from Iowa City, Iowa, and Carly, hailing from Marquette, Iowa, are on a mission to cultivate 30 different types of certified organic vegetables. They have also gained valuable insights into managing pastured pigs, goats, and chickens.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Per Cooper, “the more you’re using, the better benefits” which is part of the reason RFA advocates for higher mix standards. “In the US we are cultivating fewer and fewer acres each and every year. That trend has not been interrupted by the use of renewable fuels.”

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Dedicated to cultivating a thriving local food economy and sustainable farming sector, Just Food integrates agroecology-based conservation with land stewardship. The farm is a testament to how community-led initiatives can redefine our food systems, offering food sovereignty for all, including newcomers to Canada.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

A 2020-21 survey conducted by DFWT recorded greater use of the uncropped fields for habitat and hunting by raptors and the endangered Great Blue Pacific Heron, compared to cultivated fields. But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pre-cultivation, the region owed the healthy pH of its soils to the lucky coincidence of sitting atop a volcanic bed. The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. Organic farms have been shown to have lower net greenhouse gas emissions than conventional farms, and California’s climate scoping plan includes a target of 20 percent of the state’s farmland under organic cultivation by 2045.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. acres in a former horse pasture. A staple crop at the state’s missions starting in the late 1700s, the grain proved adaptable to the Mediterranean climate. By the 1870s, farmers in San Diego County grew wheat on a large scale.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace. (Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

All this used to be pasture,” said Petronila Gutiérrez, who, together with her husband and children, runs the La Miranda farm, a 79-hectare (195-acre) property they have reforested and worked with sustainable agriculture and cattle-raising techniques. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

youth and adult volunteers Location: Fresno, California Acres in cultivation: Less than one acre Marketing: farmer’s markets, farm stand and CSA Crops: mixed vegetables “I think the food safety piece is just as important as all the other stuff that we do. Farmers: Dr. Floyd D.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Ujamaa’s Hawkins also sees the collective cultivating much more than food.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though they are not immune from the ravages of the virus, smaller-scale and pasture-raised poultry operations have, so far, shown themselves to be more resilient against the outbreak, some experts sayeven if thats only because their smaller size is a check against hundreds of thousands of birds dying all at once at a single location.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. The benefits are just so multifaceted,” she says, “that it’s kind of a no-brainer.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. ” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association just released a 4-day synopsis of exterminated chickens and it's unnerving. The Trump administration us sucking up the entire news cycle, but something is percolating underneath in America that is extremely disturbing. This is 4 days, folks. PA, Commercial Egg Layer, 1,975,300 Adams Co.,

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