National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The growing revenue from direct, local, and regional sales is supported by programs such as the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) and Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) that strengthen direct-to-consumer marketing opportunities and regional distribution networks.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Image 3: The global distribution of soil acidity and alkalinity is largely related to annual rainfall and its excess over evapotranspiration.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Instead, they offer educational resources, like Ready to Farm , a collection of free posters and videos that show how to stretch and strengthen muscles used in farming and ranching to prevent injuries. I dont know anyone who has ever been in pain who has been happy, she said.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. 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.

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ATTRA

JULY 29, 2024

The program is a competitive infrastructure opportunity to expand the capacity and infrastructure for the aggregation, processing, and infrastructure, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of regional agricultural products.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) plans to distribute more than $545,000 in Specialty Crop Block Grant funding over a three-year period, to expand the availability of fresh, locally-grown produce and strengthen the competitiveness of the state’s specialty crop industry. Applications are due March 22, 2024.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

While some agricultural and forestry projects might fit into the existing priority project categories, opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon through changes in farm, forest and ranch management would more appropriately fall under additional project categories. We urge the U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Some regions have expanded their focus to include climate-smart ranching practices, including managed grazing and resilient cropping systems , which can mitigate the environmental and climate impacts of industrial livestock production. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Farmers and ranchers work 365 days a year to responsibly and sustainably produce abundance from our farms and ranches,” said Ashley McCarty, Missouri Farmers Care Foundation executive director. Donations are distributed statewide through Feeding Missouri, the association of Missouri’s six regional food banks.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. Such changes leave the system less vulnerable to temperature extremes, droughts, and floods.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Processing and distributing these energy products release additional greenhouse gases, as well as when we create electricity, cook our food, or while we’re standing still idling in traffic on a highway or downtown in any metropolitan area. There is fossil carbon in the form of natural gas (methane), oil and coal.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. The potential to make meat, only without the ranch, has felt like a blow to generational farmers like Holley.

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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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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And disabled veterans are just as capable, she adds, particularly in marketing, logistics, distribution and compliance. Photo: Naoki Nitta) Samantha Stephens, a recent AiSA graduate winding down a decade-long career in the Marines, was startled to find out what it would take to run her husband’s family ranch in Georgia.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MAY 28, 2024

Embarking on an agricultural venture, whether it’s running a beef ranch out East or managing a large produce business, is both thrilling and daunting at the same time. Now, depending on the type of farm or ranch you’re running, your business plan might look slightly different and may not include every single topic outlined above.

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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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Daily Yonder

JUNE 8, 2023

The Totten Lake and Montezuma Solar projects are only for distribution through Empire Electric Association, which means they need to be located near Empire Electric-owned distribution lines. It has to be in Empire’s territory, [and] it has to be on their distribution lines,” said Stottler.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing partnerships for a new, interagency pilot project aimed at offering more localized ground bison meat for tribal communities through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). Now they sell their finished cattle, as well as those of their customers, through Dakota Angus.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

This bipartisan legislation represents a pivotal opportunity to enact policy solutions that promote equitable land distribution and support the next generation of agricultural stewards. 3955) would provide essential funding for programs aimed at expanding access to affordable farmland for young farmers. Fair Credit for Farmers Act (H.R.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Here, access means obtaining consent to access a nation or tribe’s genetic resources, and benefits means an equitable distribution of profits made from those resources. This is called, in U.N. shorthand, access and benefit sharing (ABS).

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. This wasn’t about ranching, this was about everything. Salatin was a real farmer.

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RR2CS

APRIL 5, 2024

Celebrating, learning from, and widely sharing the stories of Albertans who have been putting regenerative agriculture practices into action on farms and ranches. The RAL aims to respond to this question by: Hosting a forum for innovation and collaboration for a network of committed regenerative agriculture ‘actors’ in Alberta.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

By the early 20 th century, decades of timber-cutting and overgrazing had left the ranching region in southern states barren, its nutrient-rich native grasses replaced by a motley assortment of plants that made poor forage. I visited Hamilton’s ranch in November 2022, where they run about 45 cows and 150 bison. The southeastern U.S.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

As in other regions, the impacts are distributed disproportionately, with Indigenous populations especially affected by struggles with water availability. Ranching decisions frequently exclude climate change-related information. In addition, some solutions may be hard for small acreage farmers to adopt because of expense.

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RR2CS

APRIL 5, 2024

Celebrating, learning from, and widely sharing the stories of Albertans who have been putting regenerative agriculture practices into action on farms and ranches. RAL aims to respond to this question by: Hosting a forum for innovation and collaboration for a network of committed regenerative agriculture ‘actors’ in Alberta. A sense of humor.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Census, conducted every five years, is a count of our nation’s farms and ranches and the people who run them, and provides a new outlook on the future of farming in the United States. This distribution has remained relatively steady since the 2017 Census.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

It is a food distribution and equity problem. A typical ranch only produces cattle and the calves are usually weaned and sold. In comparison, many regenerative farms and ranches have a diverse crop rotation and multiple species of livestock, all produced on the same acres or overlapping acres each year.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. He combined it with a smaller ranch called La Cense, which he bought the same year. But they have to be big.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. He’s hopeful that their lessons learned will help to shape how they ranch over the next five years. We hadn’t had a significant rain event since July of 2020,” says Tim. ‘A

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While Montanans have enjoyed relatively low food prices, the consolidation of production has led to less food processing capacity in Montana; more reliance on processing outside of the state and distribution infrastructure; and a smaller portion of retail spending on food going back to the farmer or rancher. Montana is known for ranching.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s about how roads disrupt animal population distributions and migration patterns and how road noise affects ecosystems and how all of the road salts that we apply changes waterways. MF: I want to talk a little bit about the intersection of roads and agriculture and ranching. Author Ben Goldfarb.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The corn field at Frey Ranch Distillery. Photography courtesy of Frey Ranch. Throughout the US, we now have an uneven age distribution of oaks, with a lot of oaks nearing maturity, but few very old or very young trees. They experimented with making bourbon for years before they could actually sell it or distribute it.

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Agwired

MARCH 21, 2025

Farm and ranch families from across the nation donated 34.8 Strong consideration will be given to candidates with concentration and/or application in broadcast media (includes internet/online media distribution). Logan was appointed to the board by President Joseph Biden on Oct. He led the agency as board chairman and CEO until Jan.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

If Tyson comes in and says farms and ranches who we’re buying cows from have implemented X amount of cover cropping, does that make their beef climate smart?” Read more Climate Change Even people who received funding fear that the program could overwhelm or confuse farmers who are suddenly inundated with competing climate-smart offers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Maintaining and building fences is a yearly job on every ranch, costing at least $20,000 per mile. The mobile app connected to the virtual fence collars distributes real-time data on the rancher’s herd, providing information on animal health and location. Today, more than 620,000 miles of fence branch across the western United States.

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