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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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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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Do You Control Your Business or Does it Control YOU?

UnderstandingAg

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. If you look at the graph you can see a slowdown in the loss of farms and ranches starting in the 1970s. However, it only appears that way because of the astronomical loss of farms earlier in the century.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. Michigan, however, greenlit kava in 2023, becoming the first state to grant it GRAS status.

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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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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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