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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two years ago, the family experimented by starting to farrow their mother pigs on pasture rather than inside barns. Trisha says niche markets like this are critical to keeping small family farms like theirs alive. “If

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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?

Civil Eats

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. A spokeswoman said the Park Service will ultimately consider the effect of fence removal on the ranches and dairies in the new plan—but it has yet to provide that information.

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Do You Control Your Business or Does it Control YOU?

UnderstandingAg

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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Evolving Sustainable Practices on a Fifth Generation Ranch — Valley View Ranch & Flying Heart Meats, Strathmore, Alberta

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Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Soil health, environmental sustainability, and knowledge sharing have all been critical to ensuring the farm’s evolution and success.

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Young Farmers Bring Small-scale, Humane Hog Farming Back to Iowa

Food Tank

Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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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. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says. “As

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