National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From the stage of the Africa Food Systems Forum in Rwanda, the World Food Prize Foundation announced Dr. Dennis Beesigamukama, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, as the 2024 Recipient of the Norman E. Rivulis Pte.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

acres on two pieces of leased land using no-till agro-ecological practices including drip irrigation, cover crops and lots of mulch to conserve water and build healthy soil. Caiti attended a town hall where the discussion focused on relief for farmers who raise livestock or grow perennial crops not annual crops. She farms 1.5

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. Casazza and other wildlife scientists have documented waterfowl using agricultural facilities—from foraging for grain in feedlots to roosting in effluent ponds—but questions remain about why the birds seek out the facilities and the potential connections to the spread of avian flu.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Researchers, however, say the effects of prairie dogs on livestock forage are mixed. Across years, enhanced forage quality may help to offset reductions in forage quantity for agricultural producers, a study published in 2019 by Rangeland Ecology and Management reported.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Jillian Bainard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Cost: FREE Producers rely on grazing native, tame perennial pastures or stockpiled feed to typically feed their livestock. Join Young Agrarians and Rural Routes to Climate Solutions to learn all about forage polycultures with Dr. Jillian Bainard of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Overall, the story gives a glimpse into Sarah’s and Ralph’s ecological and social consciences and how reconnecting to the land instills passion and power.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. This marks an increase of more than 30% in the past decade as chicken has been marketed as a more compassionate, healthy and ecological alternative to red meat.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The ability [of] birds to forage and express natural behaviors also helps reduce stress, so the bird has a healthier immune system. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5 million have already died. So far, the risks to humans remains low.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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