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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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. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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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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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. The approaches that my grandfather took to manage the land, and the way my parents turned a portion of it into a homestead, allowed me to watch it go from pasture to forest,” says Crombie. “My

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill., has always been ecologically minded. Adams notes they also pay farmers for offering education, research and outreach.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie. A large portion of their farm serves as rotational pasture for the goats and horses. Kari is proud of her herd of nine pasture-raised goats which she milks and sells to soap makers and other businesses. “As

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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. Experimenting with Katahdin Sheep for Ecological Weed Control Over the past six years, Graydon and his wife have been keeping a small flock of Katahdin sheep on the family farm.

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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. This means we move our sheep flock through a pasture one section at a time using mobile fencing,” Lindi Phillips explained.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract.

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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. We hope to see you there and feel free to invite your friends!

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Ecological Impacts of Corn Production and the Ethanol Market Tyler Lark is a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), where he leads research on U.S. agricultural land use and its interactions with our nation’s land and water resources.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Would the data points derived from our pastured cows be different than a cow locked in a Fresno feedlot eating GMO corn and soybeans? Whatever your position on climate movement, this is yet another confirmation that nature provides us with all the tools necessary to live abundantly without sacrificing ecology. Is it possible?

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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? Our several open sheds contain countless barn swallow nests. These prodigious insect eating birds are truly the best acrobats in the sky. Folks, it’s all about habitat.

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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. 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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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. Do you struggle with when to move cows, what kind of cows to keep or cull, and whether to add sheep or other enterprises? I’ll answer that.

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The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Those massive historical flocks and herds moved in a strategically ecology-enhancing integrated choreography; they ate primarily perennials, not annuals; beaver ponds hydrated 8 percent of the North American landscape, more than double the water surface today. As Diana Rodgers, producer of Sacred Cow says, “it’s the how, not the cow.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. And agroforestry has broad ecological positives that aren’t necessarily reflected in the raw accounting of carbon offsets.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example. While those bovines have been helping to restore the soil on their temporary pasture, the 18 raised beds that were planted last year and ⅛-acre demonstration field have all been prepared for the students who will be starting the program in September.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd. Honorable Mention for the “Most Economically Beneficial Innovation” went to the Livestock Yield, Pricing & Margin Tool, created by Olivia Tincani & Co.,

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It

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OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Agricultural and ecological droughts that used to occur once every 10 years are projected to occur twice as often – even in (an increasingly unlikely) low warming scenario of 1.5°C C in drying regions (Figure). Droughts also exacerbate other climate-related risks, such as wildfires.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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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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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

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.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a lot of ways, carbon farming is like organic farming—the end result is good for a lot of people and agro-ecological systems, but our societal’s economic system isn’t really structured to reward this slow path. Like soil microbes, Beulah enjoys grazing on cover crops in the wintertime. This was just last week in our resting high tunnel!

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The couple show a real passion for nature, as evidenced by the sign at the entrance of their farm which reads, “Ecology now!” Troed y Rhiw is an 8.5 ha certified organic farm, which also offers courses in beekeeping and organic farming and has holiday accommodation on the farm as well.

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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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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 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. By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Its much more complex than that.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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