Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business. And who was really in charge when I was co-owner of our family dairy farm? I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those include multi-generation family farms or beginning farmers that are adopting agroforestry or farmers transitioning from annual production to perennial production. Silvopasture integrates trees into livestock production for pasture and animal health. Some classes are free, while others are $40.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business. And who was really in charge when I was co-owner of our family dairy farm? I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Multi-species Cropping—Experimenting with Crop Trials Using 28 Varieties Before Tim came back to the farm, his uncle Doug had been experimenting for a couple of years with winter grazing of multi-species cropping—relying on a handful of different plants—for improved pasture and cattle outcomes. “We

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. These contemporaries knew that their methods and policies would eliminate farms like the ones of their childhoods. The 1980s Farm Crisis cemented the elimination of the sustainable American family farm.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

Family farms are the backbone of our food system. More than 90 percent of farms—about 500 million—are run either by individual or family labor! billion people worldwide are involved in family farming, and these operations produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food value, according to U.N. More than 1.5

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