Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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ATTRA

JUNE 4, 2024

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) has announced its 2024 Farm Tour and Workshop Series. This annual series of public tours and workshops encompasses 24 events, featuring organic and ecological farms in Ohio and Michigan, plus several educational workshops. Most scheduled events are free and open to the public.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Ecological farmers may not agree on everything, but one thing we all agree on these days are these 5 essential elements: 1. The devastation among Florida’s orange groves and the diseases attacking coffee trees are symptomatic of one thing: violating all of the above ecological pillars. Let’s go to the heart of the matter.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Agroforestry is a sustainable land management approach that can be integrated into existing traditional crop and livestock systems. Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. has always been ecologically minded. Savanna Institute is an ideal partner to help implement this work.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

“Farmers are some of the best-placed people to help protect the ecosystem services found in healthy ecologies,” said Jared Phillips of Branch Mountain Farm who spoke on the panel alongside his wife Lindi Phillips. The Phillips’ farm, nestled in the Ozarks in northwest Arkansas, raises livestock.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. He admits that wolves will present challenges for livestock producers, but he added, “There may be some interesting new opportunities that come up for ranchers and for all of us here in western Colorado. It’s the key to human survival,” he said.

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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. Nothing could be further from the truth. Folks, slow down and look at what I’ve said.

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The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We talked about fake meat and the anti-livestock craze to save the planet from incinerating. Livestock must go. Let’s preach it loud and preach it long: authentic pastured livestock mimics historical abundance; eat and enjoy. How are your kids holding up to this “no livestock” narrative?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

In its place, ‘agroecology’ was more explicitly recognised as a broad moniker for a range of practices that are grounded in biological / ecological farming; this has made the term more distinct in its definition. Kumar calls for “a new trinity for an age of ecology which has wholeness, integrity and cohesion”.

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The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2022

Few habitats are as anti-ecological as sterile conventional suburban and urban spaces. As a pastured livestock farmer, do you know how much I covet clover? It’s the queen of forages, favorite of all domestic livestock, including chickens. Our several open sheds contain countless barn swallow nests.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. And everywhere he looked, trees had leafed out.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

As a renowned environmentalist, his cattle farm coupled with ornithology give him unique authenticity in the ecology-farming debate. An avid lover of grassland wild birds, over the years he has developed credible protocols for grazing, mowing hay, or clipping pastures in a way that preserves grassland birds.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? Three of our urban patrons will talk about why they buy pastured meat and poultry. Finally, beloved alternative veterinarian Will Winter will talk about how to have healthy commercial livestock without pharmaceuticals.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Hans Herren, Barbara Gemmill-Herren and their daughter Gis è le Herren spoke about how they utilize their combined studies and experiences in ecology, biological control, entomology, and nematology to guide the operation of their small farm. We kicked off the event with introductions from the family.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honorable Mention for the “Most Economically Beneficial Innovation” went to the Livestock Yield, Pricing & Margin Tool, created by Olivia Tincani & Co., a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. How often have you heard that said?

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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.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

We decided to call the farm ‘Redtail Farms’ as an ode to my father and his love for birds and ecology — and the way he farmed as closely with nature as he could,” says Griebel. They are committed to farming with nature, not against it, and restoring the natural grassland ecology. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. We began to divide up pastures, create agroforestry systems where we have vegetation that provides shade and food for the animals, and we began to rotate the cows in the 52 lots that we have today.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming. For example, modelling studies suggest the adoption of silvopasture (integration of trees and livestock) on 10% of the UK’s grassland area could sequester 5.477 to 13.39 25 and 60% of the UK’s total current livestock emissions).

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Advocates of agroecology, including farmers and growers that use organic, regenerative, biodynamic, nature-friendly and pasture-fed practices, argue that a more profound change is needed – that the status quo, with its entrenched interests and problematic power structures, cannot persist.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

But as we understand ecological systems better, we have come to realise that, while they can be very resilient, at some level of degradation they reach tipping points at which they flip into new states far less conducive to human life. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.” Grassland foliage relies on the grazing and trampling of livestock to keep the soil aerated and the plant community growing. Fencing, for example, may be needed to protect water systems from livestock.

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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. Cattle + Crops for Soil Health & Protecting Vital Watersheds One of the strategies implemented at Valley View Ranch is integrating livestock management with crop management, says Rod.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Most of their meat sales are sold through their on-farm store. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 1:00PM Presenter: Dr. 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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, provides an overview on this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, including one of the SFT’s sessions, Grazing for Good, which took a closer look at the integral relationship between livestock and the biodiversity it supports. The Sustainable Food Trusts session on Grazing for Good?

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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.

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