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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, failed shipping logistics forced farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures.

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

Modern Farmer

The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm. Most of the people in our ag program are coming from an agrarian background but are trying to be innovative with new ways to approach farming,” says Leventhal.

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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S. used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing.

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