Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The feed was stored in old barns and had to be manually filled into sacks before it could be distributed to the cattle. But that would come with restrictions: he would have to keep a 70/30 ratio of cattle to sheep on the pastures. The free consultancy points only to one possible new income stream: upland woodland planting on pastures.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 26, 2023

Here are the most common options: Sprinkler Irrigation : Sprinkler irrigation involves the use of overhead sprinklers that distribute water over the crops in a manner similar to rainfall. Farmers commonly use sprinkler irrigation for row crops, orchards, and pasture irrigation.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. Well, we’ve certainly got a lively discussion going with a HENDOMINIUM in city apartments.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

While there isn’t a program set up yet to do the same in Colorado, the Gottenborgs are in talks with organizations that will pay for the elk to have forage access to their pastures in the winter. In 2023, the Gottenborgs also installed five large, shallow-pool structures that hold fresh water with pumps powered by solar panels.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care. Healthy Pastures: Overgrazing can lead to soil erosion, reduced plant diversity, and degradation of the land.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It allowed me to triple the size of my operation and have healthier animals—they’re up on pasture [on the new land],” she said. We’re thinking more sustainably and regeneratively, thinking outside the monoculture box—about pasture, carbon sequestering, and perennial farming.”

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Make sure the grains (oats, corn, barley) are evenly distributed and not clumped together. Silage, Hay, Pasture grass 80-100% Provides fiber for digestion. Mohair Goat Feed Recipe (Example) Goats that have access to a good quality pasture will have a reduced need for grain. Grain 30-40% (corn or barley).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. But more than 80 percent of Dostie’s pasture was contaminated, and the 35 acres that were clean weren’t enough to sustain his herd. We called b t,” Dostie remembers. So that fall, Dostie loaded his 350 animals onto trucks and sold them.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Pasture-raised eggs can be $3, $5 or $7 a carton. With that refrigerated warehouse space, we could easily source from more farmers, distribute more food and serve more communities.” Customers at its mobile markets can choose from one of three price tiers to shop that day, depending on their needs.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. billion in 2022, with about $445 million distributed through the competitive AFRI program.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Applying to perennial pasture after a high-stock-density graze. This does not mean every animal needs to be out on pasture every day of the year. Every day they are out on pasture or grazing cover crops is one less day of manure to handle. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. Far from it.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Climate Action and Climate Messaging Yang’s Kitchen , which Chris Yang opened in Los Angeles with his wife in 2019, has always focused on quality ingredients , like locally milled flour for its scallion pancakes and produce from Food Roots , which distributes locally grown Asian fruits and vegetables.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 9, 2024

Their dream was to become pastured dairy farmers and support their growing family. The program aims to strengthen local food systems, support Wisconsin farmers, and distribute fresh nutritious foods to underserved communities. Much was just one year old at the time and by nine years old she was milking her family’s cows.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, by increasing the presence of deeper rooted perennials and distributing manure, such practices can increase the overall carbon sequestration of a grazing system. As she has allowed pastures to rest, she has seen the return of species diversity and a rise in perennial grasses.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

If you are considering selling your eggs there are a few business decisions you will need to make, the most important being, which distribution channel will work best for you? There will be different rules for different distribution networks regarding things like inspection, safety, insurance and record keeping.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

Across the country, farmers build community through work days, food distribution, farm-to-table events and more. My parents divorced when I was six years old, and I spent a lot of that time at my cousins’ farm where we ran wild through pasture and forest, daring each other to touch hotwire and finding portals in the branches of yew trees.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

That year he hosted his first national conference and asked me to do a speech about pastured poultry. Suddenly we were getting calls from around the country: “How do you do this pastured poultry thing?” In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15. Seuss) or an incredible idea (pastured poultry).

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Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 72

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. Photography courtesy of Charlotte Maffie.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. Some solutions offered include grass banks for pasture areas experiencing drought as well as temporary leasing of water. Consequently, less forage is likely to be available.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They also cause power outages and disrupt transportation and distribution, which increases the price of all goods, including food. Here in the U.S., extreme climate-related events like forest fires, floods, and drought ruin crops and harm aquatic life.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Normally we have been able to distribute 1.5 Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down.

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OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Droughts are clearly affecting people’s lives in different regions, with uneven consequences and social inequalities in the distribution of climate impacts. At the same time, the Horn of Africa experienced its fifth consecutive dry year and over 20 million people in the region required food and water assistance to fight starvation.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

By partnering with local and state organizations, he’s made his operation a key part of emergency food distribution programs reaching schools, families, and organizations in Tulare County with culturally appropriate food especially for rural regions comprised of farmworkers and other immigrant and under-served communities.

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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. It is shipped out all over India directly to the end consumer.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With organic, Walmart could push farms to get bigger, driving costs down and enabling national distribution. Their enthusiasm around new market and distribution opportunities make sense, given those farmers are likely shut out of larger grocers’ supply chains—including Walmart’s.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Each new boundary drawn by a rancher moves livestock onto a fresh paddock, allowing grazed pastures time to recover as livestock feed in a new location. “We Virtual fencing enables land managers to be precise and adaptive in their livestock grazing activities so native plants thrive in pastures.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. Paul region.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Here, we re-visit these issues in the light of the SFTs contribution to the Local Food Plan , a project in partnership with the Landworkers’ Alliance , Food, Farming and Countryside Commission , Pasture For Life and Sustain.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. He unmasks the people who build fortunes by garnering monopolistic shares in agriculture and food distribution consolidation – obscene wealth, unearned. Author Austin Frerick.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Skoglund harvested nearly a bison a week out in his pastures last year to meet consumer demand. In response, a growing number of producers in Montana are distributing their own meat. “We’ve Left: Instead of trucking his bison to slaughter, Matt Skoglund drives out into the pasture and loads his rifle.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In fact, we can do even better and offer pastured GMO-free, vaccine-free eggs right now. And the industry has a lot of money tied up in caged infrastructure, from housing to egg collection to feed distribution. Of course, she assumed I'd be thrilled and have all kinds of wonderful things to say about it. My response was "why 10 years?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

States then distribute the cash to counties or manage the funds at the state level. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. NRCS offices across the country have been trying to staff up to provide faster distribution of funds and more help for applicants. Albert Johnson Sr.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Other projects aim to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of beef and dairy herds by more carefully managing how these animals graze pastures, so their manure can feed perennial grasses and other plants whose roots pull carbon deep into the soil.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

The state attorney general initiated legal action against the farmer to prevent him from producing or distributing his products. Miller is adamant that his products are more nutrient dense and tasty than pasteurized milk, in part because his cattle graze on green pastures in “God and nature.”

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