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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. The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. ” These innovations often have ripple effects.

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The unseen costs of Tesco’s milk cutbacks: A threat to smaller dairies as mega-farms expand

Sustainable Food Trust

Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. In response, I said, “Good answer.

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Commentary: A Chorus for Conservation

Daily Yonder

Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures. Jason Isbell’s “Last of My Kind” calls out a family farm becoming a Wal-Mart parking lot. It is transforming many of the once-rural communities on its edges. It can lead, at times, to rural gentrification.

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A Farmer’s Lifelong Love of Conservation

Wisconsin Farmers Union

Her family farm is located in Waupaca County outside of Ogdensburg where she cares for a herd of nine dairy goats, two horses, hay fields, bees, a large kitchen garden, and more. Eventually the couple settled on a 80 acre farm, where they’ve been for the past 34 years.

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On the Ground with the Midwest Farmers Going All-In On Agroforestry

Modern Farmer

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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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands

Sustainable Food Trust

Some of this is easily quantified: grazing livestock are, for example, an important source of employment in rural areas, providing vital economic opportunities in some of the country’s most fragile communities. ” We know that we can manage our grasslands in a way that works for rural communities and the environment alike.

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Farmer Conservation Stories: Why Inflation Reduction Act Funding Must Remain Focused on Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems.

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