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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

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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ORFC 2024: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Winners of the 2022 Small Farm Innovation Challenge

Caff

Winner’s of the 2022 Innovation Challenge will receive gifts and cash made possible by Johnny’s Select Seeds and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.

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Colombian Farmers Turn Deforested Land into Sustainable Amazonian Farms

Agritecture Blog

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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Farming With Nature — Redtail Farms, Castor, Alberta

RR2CS

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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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

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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