UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 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. In this case, tillage is less of the disturbance in question, although some pastureland is regularly disturbed mechanically.

Acre 97

Acre Fertilizer Pasture Crop 97

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

The 50 years of farming at Bwlchwernen, according to the interconnected principles of health, ecology and a circular economy, have not only stewarded the farm’s natural biodiversity as a complete and thriving ecosystem, but also created the conditions to increase and improve its biodiversity potential.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials. NSAC calls on the House and Senate to include the bipartisan COWS Act provisions in a final farm bill.

Farming 83

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 83

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Thankfully, he has a capable and energetic partner, 25-year-old Jack Schouweiler.

Farming 133

Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 133

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

according to eHistory’s Invasion of America project—has hugely impacted their abilities to hunt, fish, forage, and farm. She points out that the massive land loss Native peoples experienced due to settler colonialism—more than 1.5 billion acres across the U.S., Recent research backs this approach.

Acre 144

Acre Food Mechanics Forage 144